Write An Essay On Invasive Species

The Formosan Clouded Leopard, the Japanese River Otter, the Western Black Rhinoceros, and the Alaotra Grebe; what does each of these species have in common? They are all extinct. Extinction is not necessarily a bad thing like how most people know it to be. It is perfectly normal for species to naturally die off, but not at the rate that it is going now. There are natural abnormalities in the extinction rate, like with the dinosaurs and their meteor, but not this time. These species are just a fraction of the many species that are declared extinct in the past few years mainly because of one other species, Homo sapiens. Imagine not knowing what a tiger, or a Saola, known as the Asian unicorn, look like. That just might happen as our planet can be losing 50% of its species in the next few decades. Instead of the natural rate of 1-5% of …show more content…
So if invasive species are not from an area, how did they get there in the first place? People are the ones who brought them over, whether it was on purpose, or on accident. With invasive species as the leading threat to wildlife, 42% of threatened and endangered species are in that situation because of the harm the invasive species caused (Invasive Species). Invasive species turns out to be more aggressive and more dominant when it comes to competition between the native and nonnative species. The native species are not adapted to the new threat the invasive species bring. Even if the native species start adapting and figuring out ways to counter the invasive species' domination, they are not able to adapt fast enough. The native species lose their space to live and grow, and the nutrients that were once available to them. The native species are then forced to slowly die out till they become extinct, and that is all because of the invasive species man may or may not have intentionally brought over, like sheep or