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Endangered Species are a group of animals that have become endangered by things that people are creating or doing. The animals are dying off and have a very small amount of themselves left on earth. Almost 100% of the animals are under protection by government in special habitats built so they can survive with our help. There are a lot of organizations and groups to help with the process of nursing them back to full population. This page was put together to help inform people on the animals and what is making them endangered.

There are many animals that face extinction because of logging and poaching. Some people think that can't be the only reasons but to be honest it is the two biggest. Logging companies go and cut down trees and don't even bother looking for animals that are in it. Like the Orangutan needs trees to live because they only eat fruit and leaves. They spend almost all of there time in the tree tops. They aren't the animals that need trees, there are many more animals that need them. They just need to look up and see whats in that tree because they could be killing a beautiful and amazing animal. Poaching is also another big threat to animals. Poaching is illegal hunting and it is a horrible thing. Poachers just go out and shoot or dart animals. The reason why they would dart them so they can sell them to a black market where animals or either killed for meat or sold as illegal pets. Some poachers just kill to kill, they say it is a sport but it really isn't because they are doing it illegally and hunting animals that are against the law to kill. Pandas were a a huge deal recently, not to long ago. “They are still protected because they were getting close to extinction until China put all the Pandas under protection and they put them in man made habitats very much like the ones the lived in previously and raised the Bamboo eating bears. The problem is not as bad as it was because China and other great countries all came together and made a plan for these animals so that we wouldn’t lose them forever. A few main reasons why animals becoming on the verge of extinction are things like Global Warming, Over Hunting, Human caused Disaster Ex: Oil Spills, Over fished, caught in nets, Deforestation, etc. Every single one of the reasons I stated can be prevented by being more careful. We can stop some of them because these animals are here to share resources with us. Not so we can use them all and have them die off. We lose amazing species for dumb reasons and once they are gone, they are gone forever. Animals that are endangered should be protected better and shouldn’t have fend for themselves when we caused the animals the trouble they face. Deforestation destroyed these animals resources. It also makes them run and hide for their lives because people are coming into their homes and destroy it and leave. Even plants are becoming extinct because of this reason. 90% of the food we use in the world is plant. These plants are being destroyed along with animal habitats everyday and it’s our food we are destroying. Some problems we run into when we are trying to help save these animals from extinction is that we don’t have enough man power to go and help them. Also many argue we don’t have enough protected areas to keep the animals safe in such as parks and man-made habitats. Another thing is that we may not have enough laws that favor the animals. Animals are also becoming a danger when they are creeping up on civilization because of how close we are to the wildlife and us taking over the homes of the animals that they aren’t used to. These animals need our help, so will you make a stand to save these animals? Will you save them? Solving poaching is going to be pretty hard but if we all work together we can do it. You can solve the rhino problem by selling FAKE animal parts that look like the animals body parts. We can make a law that outlaws selling poached animal parts on the market. Something be that you can do to stop poaching is by getting locals together and telling them what’s going on and inform them on the topic. That way everyone is aware that this is happening and they will help you put a stop to it. Another way to stop poachers is to find a different method of making money for them that makes equal or more money then they are making now. “In Nigeria the Nigerian gorilla was poached down to a mere 300. We helped by showing them a different method of money making called snail farming. They went from $70’s from a gorilla to $500 dollars from performing this method. One solution to stop Endangered species from happening is to stop other world crises. The one I want to inform you about on this page is “Poaching.” When you kill animals that are protected by law or are endangered then you are performing the act of poaching. Poachers are usually people who don’t make enough income to provide for a family so they take on the law to make money and kill animals that have highly valuable items. Take the rhino for example. People want rhino horns it is a high demand and they cost a lot of money and are used in many different ways. So people go and kill rhinos that are protected and only take the horn of the rhino and leave the rest of the body to sit and waste away. Animal poaching is something that can be easily fixed if the government and other countries got together and discussed the topic. We can get laws that will ban the poaching and people will face serious consequences if they perform the action and are caught. It will be easy to catch them because when they put it on market then they poached. The authorities just have to watch the black marketing and stay on top.
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www.endangeredspecie.com Informational

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html List of Animals Endangered

This is a great website that shows people what animals are endangered and all the information on where they live, what they eat, and what kind of Habitat they are in. The site in general is kid friendly and easily understandable.

http://www.thinkgreenliveclean.com/2010/04/snails-protecting-gorillas-new-solutions-for-endangered-animals/ Interesting Story

This website has a nice article on poaching and how it effects areas. It uses Nigeria for an example and talks about the Nigerian Gorilla dying out. Then we find them a new a job.

http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/tp/globalwarmtips.htm Cool ways to help

This link sends you to a Top 10 on ways to help animals and stop global warming. They are just neat little things you can do at your house to cut back and save a little.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWQLd5U0g8&edufilter=LYNDk8eMrdhcXyecyoJVXw A video about Endangered Frogs

In this video you can see a lot of different frogs that are endangered and find out information on them from the professionals. The video is educational and has neat facts.

http://animal.discovery.com/guides/endangered/endangered.html Animal Planet

Here is a link to Animal Planets website for Endangered Species. It shows you all of the animals and what the animal is all about.