Nowadays these cute creatures have been unexpectedly declining in population because of the many challenges in which they have to adapt. Many of these challenges like having to live close to human communities and devouring cattle and sheep, running away from poachers and hunters, starving from food shortage ad even having difficulty to find a mate is caused by humans and their actions. Many of these challenges are brought by specifically by urbanization and human growing population. Urbanization requires many homes to be built, farms to be enlarged for agriculture to feed the human population. Therefore, deforestation sabotages habitat loss, insufficient food for the jaguars and other carnivores.
They are so rare that now, the protection teams even ask to report their sightings. They are critically endangered, which means chance of extinction. Second problem is their habitat loss. Shallow water is good for the juveniles to survive. But people developed lots of coastal development (dredging, mangrove removal, seawall construction, alteration of freshwater flow) and they had fewer places to live.
What changes happening in Madagascar are posing challenges for lemurs? Give details about the sources, time scale, and types of change. The challenges for the lemurs in Madagascar are that the vegetation is being destroyed by humans. According to the video, the timescale for this destruction is a lot less than an evolutionary timescale of destruction. One of the changes that would pose this threat to the lemurs is that their food supply is being demolished so they could die off because of starvation.
The decline was manifested in the fact that the islanders stopped constructing the monumental statues for which the island is so famous today. Archeological evidence shows a sudden drop in quantities of fish and bird bones as the islanders lost the means to construct fishing vessels and the birds lost their nesting sites. Soil erosion resulting from
If one thing that should be in your mind while you read this is the Florida Everglades and our great lakes. Both are endangered of invasive species because of either the owner’s carelessness or by accident from when people came to the new world. Things that will be pointed out in this paper is the dangers of invasive species and what the opposing views thinks of the problem that is threating animals and our existence. In Florida they have major problems with invasive species like Burmese pythons; during October of last year a crew worker went to Tree Island in the Florida’s Everglades to cut down lygodium vines, which is also an invasive species, but on one of the vines was actually a 16-foot Burmese python dangling from a tree, the crew worker shot the snake and killed it with a shotgun the python killed swallowed a 76-pound deer (Weeks para. 2).
In today’s society, the environmental issues that appear on television the most include overpopulation, air pollution, climate change, and water pollution. In this essay, I would like to focus on an aspect of water pollution that has been overlooked by the general public. This lurking environmental danger in the ocean is called a Dead Zone. In Tom Levitt’s article for CNN, Levitt writes: “Aquatic "dead zones" are a tragic illustration of human beings' negative impact on the world's oceans. They are areas so overloaded with pollutants that they have difficulty sustaining any life.” Dead Zones are created by fertilizer and pollution run off from our very own backyards.
Examples include marine, fresh water, and coral reef. Humans have negatively affected many of the ecosystems and biomes in the world. Examples of the ways we as humans have changed the balance of nature throughout the world would be developing land, growing crops, cutting down trees, over hunting and over fishing and burning of fossil fuels. All of these examples have disturbed the bal-ance of the ecosystem. An ecological community consists of all the interactive species living within a certain area or a certain habitat.
Why would anyone care? Swamps can be unsightly and full of rodents and creatures you don’t want to be around but as you will soon find out there are many benefits of wetlands and they are an extremely important part of our ecosystem. The draining of wetlands is a serious problem. It doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that the draining of wetlands if nothing else causes habitat destruction that damages the local ecosystem. Wildlife will be forced to look for new places to live in an ever changing geography.
The popular products at the museum are the exhibits and the different habitats of the animals and insects. There are over 200 species of birds, over 40 species of mammals, more than 50 species of reptiles, 60 species of amphibians and the swamp house 34 different type’s fish (Okefenokee Swamp Park, 2015). The plant life around the swamps is cypress and tupelo trees, spanish moss which hangs from the branches, duckweeds which are tiny plants that may cover the surface of the water. Shrubs and bushes may grow beneath the trees (National Geographic, 2015). Problem The major problem with The Swamp Museum is that the company is struggling to break even although they haven’t lost customers.
With all that being said, the cheetah might not be able to surpass its extinction. Cheetahs are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the US Endangered Species Act, which are list of vulnerable species. There are currently about 12,400 cheetahs living in the wild, and the largest population currently established in Namibia with about 2,500 cheetahs. Why are cheetahs endangered? Many say it’s mainly cause of a drop in prey, loss of habitat, poaching, and high death rates of cheetah cubs.