Habitat fragmentation

experience, is life behind metal bars and barren concrete with people gawking at them. The number of animals suffering from extreme stress and depression is increasing daily. Zoos teach people it is acceptable to interfere with animals in their natural habitat and continue to place them into captivity; depriving them of open space, herds, and control over their life. A large percentage of the animals living in zoos are captive bred, and are traded between zoos their entire life. Many people…

Pill bugs name is woodlouse. Climate change will have an effect on animals, plants, and humans. With climate change rising many animals are going to get extinct in the future. Pill bugs are small animals that can live under rocks, and when you catch one they always tend to rolled up into a small ball. Their body temperature has to match with the environment that they live on. Pill bugs always like to come out during the night because they preferred moist and dark places. Temperature is important…

at these big, beautiful, and mysterious animals through the wide glass windows; and during the course of being adolescence, I marveled at the fact that, still, living in the city, we had the opportunity to be exposed to an animal in its “natural” habitat. (sites.psu.edu) However, amidst the entire fun one has at a facility like the zoo, can zoos be telling people that it is acceptable to hold animals as toys, and keep them locked in shackles for their entire lives? Good morning fellow…

Introduction: The importance of this study is to learn about birds and their relation to their habitat. There are many bird species that are abundant in the the woodlands of Westfield. Where different species of bird are located, depends on the environment. An environment can have a completely different habitat than another environment. Because of this, we suspect birds to favor one habitat over the other. From our hypothesis, we believe birds are going to be more numerous by the Westfield…

understand how these animals get to these parks. Dolphins are captured from their natural habitats and forced to live in these conditions. In addition to using these creatures only or profit and entertainment, the actual form of capturing is harmful to the mammal as well. “The capture of wild dolphins and whales is violent, cruel and disruptive to entire communities of cetaceans and ecosystems in which they live,” (Habitat and Humanity). Forcing dolphins to suffer in these parks for the…

couple of years some may be completely gone. Leaving our next generations not being able to see these monuments that are consider to be treasures. Climate change has increased over the last years causing glaciers to disappear, destroying wild animal’s habitat, and numerous fires. There are many things we can do and collaborate to keep these parks healthy. We can’t fight with mother nature but we can surely stop harming the parks when visited. Our help is needed and we should be forced to help,…

Zoos exist for one main reason, conservation, but does locking animals up actually help a species survive? When zoos keep animals captive, they often become depressed, not successful in conservation and exposed to harsh habitat conditions. Animals experience unfair and cruel lives while humans use the excuse of protection to keep them captive.Therefore, I take the position that keeping animals captive is a cruel thing. Animals in captivity are often depressed, lonely, and aggressive due to human…

farmland, which does help with harmful pests, but it also unintentionally damages bee populations as well. Lastly another cause of this issue is habitat loss. Bees losing their homes to loss of habitat also means that organisms in that field also suffer. Factors such as non-bee friendly flowers are also things that drive honeybees away from their natural habitat. (Natural Resources Defense…

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation 680,000 jobs have been created by the practice of hunting in the United States. That is a miniscule number compared to the $796 million that hunters directly contribute to conservation programs each year in the United States (National Shooting Sports Foundation). Hunting has always been an essential part of American life, a past time that transcends ethnicity, age, religion and gender. Passed from generation to generation, the practice of…

Ovaskainen, 2000), establishment (Bowman, Cappuccino & Fahrig, 2002), habitat selection (Fletcher & Hutto, 2008), animal predation of pollinators (Batary & Baldi, 2004), resource quality (Burke & Nol, 1998), and interspecific competition. Edge effects in plant and animal communities are common but may be positive (Chen et al., 1992) or negative (Bruna 2002) and affect distributions, abundance (Bolger et al., 2000), growth (McDonald and Urban, 2004), and reproduction (Burgess et al., 2006). Edge…