Reintroduction of Species

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For millions of years animals have failed to compete against other animals or adapt to changing times and become extinct, other reasons for animals becoming extinct is being hunted by man. This causes a problem as the extinction was not natural. This can potentially cause a problem for the whole eco-system. A way to combat this is to reintroduce the extinct animal back into the wild. Reintroduction can be defined as the deliberate release of back into the wild. Bring back extinct animals through cloning is very difficult and there has been very little success in doing so. Another way of reintroducing either heavily endangered or extinct animals that no longer live in a particular eco-system but have survived somewhere else in the wild. In order to successfully reintroduce an animal from captivity careful planning is required to make sure that the chosen species posses the skills required to survive in the wild. The main argument scientist use in support of the reintroduction of species is that if any type of species once lived in a particular place and was hunted to extinction, is an important part of that particular ecosystem. Although some scientist say that animals bred in captivity are less likely to survive because they lack the basic skills that animals born in the wild posses. Each animals has its own very important role in an ecosystem, these roles include keeping population numbers stable, providing a source of food for an animal’s predator, natural removal of waste and natural containment of plants. But if one single organism is removed from an ecosystem it can drastically affect every single animal in that ecosystem. When a predator is removed is often seen as having the most detrimental effect on ecosystems. This is because the loss of a top predator affects species at lower levels of the food chain. This is exactly what happened in the Scottish

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