Save Wildlife Essay

Parrots in U.S. urban areas are just starting to draw attention from scientists because of their intelligence, resourcefulness and ability to adapt. There is also a growing realization that the city dwellers may offer a population that could help save certain species from extinction. Parrots are thriving today in cities from Los…

is killing them? Prairie dogs, like many other livings on Earth, are valuable to our ecosystem. They are responsible for keeping the cycle of life going and helping to maintain a healthy structure in the wild, both as predator and prey. There are wildlife activists who support prairie dogs and who support non-lethal methods of removing them and will go as far as buying land for the small creatures. Then there are conservationists, who see the importance of prairie dogs, but who also see the…

nuts, berries and other fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless, these hard working insects are disappearing from our planet faster than we can imagine. Between pesticides and all the new communities being built on farmland, we leave no room for wildlife, including honey bees. It’s time to take a stand, by changing the laws of the land and making room for the bees right in our own backyards. Bees and beekeepers are facing many challenges. In 2006, the United States Department of…

Numerous studies have been done to determine how pollution is affecting our earth, and the humans who live on it. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was developed by President Richard Nixon on December 2, 1970. The United States created the EPA for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by banning and limiting harmful pollutants by means of laws and testing standards. There are three main areas the EPA attempts to monitor and protect; those three main concerns are air,…

contaminated water. The contaminated water will not just affect humans but it will hurt the wildlife that is in the area. Wildlife drinks the water that runs off into the ditch or in the rivers. That is where the harmful chemicals will end up if we don’t contain it. These chemicals can also get into our food plots where farmers grow fruits and vegetables. These chemicals will then contaminate not just the wildlife but the food that we…

release the captive-bred species into their native wild habitats. SSPs are not only used to manage breeding of specific species, but also used as an animal analysis tool. With this in mind, “Zoos also use SSPs as a research tool; to better understand wildlife biology and population dynamics, and raise awareness and funds to better support field projects and habitat protection for specific species”(How 2). Not only are the SSPs trying to raise and release animals into the wild, but they are also…

elephants and rhinos in Africa due to poaching has become a crucial international issue in the recent years. The previous explosion of the commercial poaching in Africa took place in the 70s and lasted until the late 80s when international agreements and wildlife protection programs helped to improve the crisis. As a result, poaching in Africa subsided for a brief while. However, around the same time, China and Vietnam saw an enormous increase in the demand for the ivory and the rhino horn,…

crops and farms to kill insects that many people find annoying. Ruled by an EPA Hearing Administrator “The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife.” (Sweeny) however, stated earlier in Carson’s book it does. DDT ran off from crops into rivers where nearly all the fish in the stream died. Gold fish were put in tanks and were dead in a couple of hours. Any other animals that ingested the…

anxious to promote western tourism” (Foner 716). In the following years, and despite the attempts of many people and organizations, the conservation of wilderness and wildlife was not a main issue on the federal government’s agenda and very little was…

ENCOUNTER WITH DOROBO I absolutely love the feeling of being in the wild, with abundant wildlife and myriad of amazing birds, the amazing scenery of this unspoiled land. As the day gives way to the night a whole new adventure begins. It is after dinner here in the heart of the savannah. A time to share stories by the fire place at Wilderness Camp. We sit around a crackling fire enjoying a drink as we stare up at the clear sky littered with stars and hearing a lion roar in the distance. We are…