An argumentative essay on why we should conserve our environment and what good it could bring us

Did you know that poaching has led to most animal extinctions this century? Poaching is a continuously growing problem that will cause many problems to the environment and people. Poaching can be defined as the illegal hunting of animals on land that is not the hunters own. Poaching does not only happen in unprotected lands such as the wilderness, but it has also happened in protected lands such as zoos. Animals may soon become extinct because of the high rate of killing the poachers are doing. If animals do become extinct, life would be very different. An example of how life would be different without animals, such as tigers, is talked about by Eugene Linden when he said, “the wild tigers of old will be gone forever, their glory surviving

Animal Poaching will eventually make animals go extinct. There will no longer be wild animals if this continues. The elephants’ population has decreased by more fifty percent over a ten year period due to poaching. The animals that reside here on earth brings a balance to the world that is needed. Since the mass killings started the balance has been knocked all the way

Sumatran Tigers are listed on the critically endangered list with around 400-500 left in the world. The main reason Sumatran Tigers are on the verge of extinction is because is because of the loss of habitat. “As recently as 1978 the Sumatran Tiger more than 1,000 Sumatran Tigers lived on Sumatra, now there is around 400-500 Sumatran Tigers (Lee Poston).” The loss of habitat resulting in the deaths of tigers is due to the agricultural expansion in Sumatra. There are protection units that gather intelligence to stop poachers and remove their snares.

Around the world, there is an abundance of animals that are becoming extinct or endangered due to poaching. Animals such as Rhinos, Turtles, Gorillas, and the Tigers are critically endangered due to vulnerability and have been jeopardized by human activities. Many countries have legalized poaching, but still this problem has increased significantly in the past decade. If the world does not stop this issue countless of animals will become extinct, and our older generation will never be able to see these exotic animals living in their natural habitat. Poaching is happening all around the world and will never be stopped until people are more educated about this crime and what is occurring from it.

Tigers are always adapting and scientists speculate that there were several more subspecies in the past that are extinct now. Tigers like the South China tiger are already believed to be on their road to extinction but subspecies evolved from that such as the Bengal tigers are still living well through the population of evolution. Beautiful creatures like the White tiger haven't even been seen in the wild since the 1950s. So time and money is being spent on research to not lose any more subspecies of

Poaching is killing an animal illegally, why would you go through so much trouble to kill species of animals. Poaching can ruin food chains because we killed an entire species, and on the other side the people sell the animal’s parts for weapons or narcotics. Poaching causes for animals to go extinct, and it is extremely illegal. Animal parts such as horns, tusks, and gallbladders are highly expensive which poachers are willing to trade weapons and drugs .

Tigers were once at risk of being extinct until those who hunted them noticed the decline and began to allow them to get a chance to revive their numbers. On the other hand animals like the African elephant, rhinoceros, and even the black bear are at high risk of becoming extinct if wildlife does not begin to be conserved. Animals such as the elephant and rhino are hunted for their body parts and animals such as the black bear are hunted for game as well as their pelt. As well as the decline in animal wildlife there is a decline in wilderness as well that comes from the cars we drive and the plants we

The current declining of biodiversity is comparable to the massive extinction of many animals over 65 million years ago.

Poaching is a problem around the entire world. The Anti-poaching Foundation is trying to protect the endangered animals. Anti-poaching reported that modern day poachers use military equipment to kill high-target species such as elephants , rhinos , gorillas,whales and dolphin. The elephant population has dropped to 62% over the last decade.

According to the IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are now 16,306 endangered species threatened with extinction (Kasnoff). Lions, Sumatran tigers, Black rhinos, Mountain gorillas, African elephants and Grevy’s zebras are currently being poached into annihilation. These six animals are being slaughtered so that their body parts, such as tusks, pelts, eyes, and bones, can be illegally sold for large amounts of money ("Africa's Poaching Crisis – AWF"). Zoologists, people who observe every aspect of wildlife and protect these species from dangerous threats, are stepping with other wildlife specialists to prevent and end the extinction of African animals threatened by poachers.

Did you know, since the 1800’s, around 58 different species, native to Australia, have gone extinct? One if these species on the brink of being another one of these numbers is the Tasmanian Tiger, an Australian animal that has no reason to be forced close to extinction, an Australian animal that doesn’t like and avoids human contact, an Australian animal that our future generations may not ever see. Unless we act now. Hunting and bounties are asking for the death of these creatures. We need to act now. These animals don’t have a voice, they can’t tell us that they are lonely in the wild, and that now they sleep alone, we must be their voice.

Tigers recent location - the tigers fragmented location extends from India in the west to China and southwest Asia

The supplies that they can create is by no means an equal trade out for the extinction of the entire species. Just look at the albino rhino, there is only one male left in the entire world, it can no longer reproduce. Meaning that the species is extinct. It is such a sad thing. I know that I do not want the Chinese tiger to become like the albino rhino. I believe that these tigers should be put in captivity for the time being until their numbers reach about 150, then we should release a little at a time back into to the wild to get the ecosystem back to the way it was without endangering yet another species. So I ask you to help, with something, anything. Call up an organization, raise funds near you, something, just do something to save this species. I hope that the facts and statistics that you have read will make you passionate enough to

Bill Freedmen, author of “Endangered Species—Human Causes Of Extinction and Endangerment” notes, “scientists approximate that present extinction rates are 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the average natural extinction rate.” These distressing numbers should be acted upon to save the endangered species and avoid the catastrophic change to this planet if these species were to become extinct. In order to produce change, people need to recognize that habitat loss, climate change, and poaching are all factors in why our animal species are going extinct.

Over the last 25 years the population has been cut in half (Sites.google.com, 2018). There are estimated 500 to 600 Sumatran tigers that remain with no more than 50 individuals in a sub-population (Joshua Rego, 2018). This is the only tiger population that lives in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, they live in lowland forests, mountain forests, swamps and tropical rainforests (Tigersincrisis.com, 2018). The Sumatran Tiger are one of the last six remaining subspecies in the world, they are also the last Sunda Tiger subspecies (Jesse Lewis,