Animals Facing Extinction In 2010
Author: Nathan Martyn
In 2004 there was a determination that over fifteen thousand species of plants and animals on the planet were facing extinction. The reasons for this are varied, but the primary factor has become humanity's reckless destruction of their local habitats and the global eco-sphere. There are many well known animals on the list to go extinct as early as the year 2010.
The african elephant is a well known creature to people around the world. Despite the ban on hunting them in many countries, ivory poaching still exists and their numbers dwindle rapidly. The four known varieties of asian elephant: Indian, Ceylon, Sumatran, and Malaysian, have lost half their population in the last few generations.
Several species of whale are doing far worse than even the elephant. The right whale has no more than two hundred and fifty fully adult members of its species left alive. At least twenty percent of their population continues to die off with every generation. The blue whale, largest animal species to ever live on the earth, has continued to loose half it's population over the last few generations.
A smaller whale species, topping out at a mere eighty feet in length compared to the eighty two feet length of the blue whale, is the fin whale. This gentle sea creature has faced a drop in population similar to its cousin species.
One creature that no one would mistake is the gorilla. This sociable and gentle creature can weigh up to six hundred pounds and stand erect at over six feet in height. Sadly, due to the destruction of its habitat it has lost over half its population in only the last three generation.
As far as the great predator species go, there are several that people easily recognize facing extinction in only another generation or two. The cheetah and the Florida cougar.
The cheetah is on the endangered species list, but there is one breed most people do not know of. The species of cheetah known as the asiatic has reached a critical population point and without extreme measures to aid its survival it will go extinct shortly. There are only fifty known members of this species left in the world. They live in Iran.
The Florida cougar, also known as the Florida puma or Florida panther, has an estimated mature population of fifty adult individuals. efforts to Recover the population are now in place to retain the current current number of native panthers in the area. Even with great funding, this is a hard agenda, as the cougar needs contiguous locations for habitat. Every breeding family, forming one male and two to five females, needs 200 square miles of living habitat. A group of 240 panthers needs 8,000 to 12,000 square miles of habitat and sufficient diversity to avoid inbreeding due to a small population size. Many areas of Southern Florida are quick-developing, and decreasing habitat threatens this animal.
Without immediate action these well known species will die, and be lost forever in our own lifetime.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/animals-facing-extinction-in-2010-1438541.html
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Nathan Martyn is webmaster of Animal Wallpaper, created with the aim of providing the highest quality free animal desktop wallpapers.
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Why are more people getting cancer than ever before?
i’m wondering i read it on yahoo. by 2010 cancer will be an even bigger killer than heart disease.
i know genetic engineering/pesticides in our food, and fluoride in our water is part of it.
here is the article i was reading.
i’m just 22- and i find all the statistics sad.
but i drink water, eat fruits/veges, don’t do too much junk food, eat mostly vegetarian, no beef, no pork, no sex, and exercise frequently. i also don’t have any kids, and such, i meditate too. but still the numbers are staggering. i also don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs.
http://news.yahoo.com/topics/cancer
to be honest i don’t believe cancer has been around for centuries. the europeans came over here, contaminated the food and the water, among other things, you would think since we don’t work nearly as hard as our ancestors hunting, fishing, making our homes, clothes, etc. we would have less cancer, and we don’t. we should have less stress. we do less work than our ancestors. people lived a long time in the past- native american chiefs lived off their medicine doctors/herbs- to be close to 100 years old- prior to european diseases. so i think cancer is man made and the prescription drugs are made to make people sicker, and not heal them. AIDS was man made too. just my opinions, you don’t have to agree.
without people having ailments/cancer/disease our population would be very big- the government controls it, and makes it smaller- most disease/cancer has cures in nature- 1500 bc what are you even talking about- that’s jive, and as far as humanity it is going down the toilet- economy, food shortages, and all- i used to have a positive approach, but i am very much so a realist- unlike most people who don’t see the storm coming. those prescription drugs do nothing much for anyone, and 200 years ago- half of the ailments people have today never existed- but you don’t have to believe anything i put down, because i’m not here to convince anyone- the truth will come out sooner than later- many people have been deceived- putting their trust in the wrong people to control their food, water, and money- the economy is on strings now- and not going to improve! 9/11 well i still wonder what happened on that day- many things are not adding up! oh and pharmaceutical companies billion dollar business
these are not conspiracy theories, they are all true. if you think its a conspiracy theory i feel really bad for you because the truth will show itself soon enough, and you’ll be sitting thinking, that you were not deceived/in the dark about the truth all these years, when it was right in front of you. suspect everyone.
weak genes, tainted food and drink,..
population control,..
try eating organic apricot seeds and lets become a healthy population and put the capitalist pig doctors and pharmaceutical industries in the same boat as sallie mae and company,..
let’s take our country back,..
i e a e,..
avatar of the unification,..
how can abortion rates lower or we get them to lower espically in poor areas?
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/03/01/abortion-women-color-bigger-picture
i do not belive abortion should be illegal
that is to much government and control at that, you also cannot force people to have kids just like you cannot force someone to stop smoking pot if they wish to..you can make laws to make things safer but this dosent harm others thus nor is it deemed illegal..
do you have any sugestions to help lower the abortion rate in low income areas
in the world statistics say that 90% abortions are in places were poverty is present
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348649,00.html
It’s funny that in countries where abortion is legal the abortion rates decrease also.
However, for the rates to lower significantly, women (and men) have to have access to free contraception, information about family planning etc.
“In developed countries with high abortion rates, use of abortion is likely to fall rapidly when a range of contraceptive methods become widely available and effectively used. Legalization of abortion and access to abortion services do not lead to increased reliance on abortion for fertility control in the long term; in developed countries with these conditions, the predominant trend in abortion rates has been downward. ”
So there ya go! Hope this helped!