(They live in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America.) It is also said that “they are especially vulnerable to the effects of forest fragmentation.” (2) Another reason that some Spider Monkeys are endangered is because of the threat of hunters. People of the same habitat as Spider Monkeys often hunt them for food. A big reason why they are so attractive as food to others is because of their huge size, with them being able to reach 24 pounds in weight as a mature male. Although the Spider Monkeys are suffering every day because of their loss of habitat and the threat of their hunters.
He trained in ecology and environment, first focusing on birds and monkeys, and later going on to work with the rhinoceros and the elephant. Besides being a biologist, he is a prolific writer with 150 published articles including regular columns in national newspapers. He is currently executive director of the Wildlife Trust of India, an honorary Wildlife Warden of New Delhi and the member of four specialist scientific groups with the IUCN. He has founded five different environmental organisations in India. As a result of recent studies, Vivek Menon has discovered that elephant poaching increased nearly three fold between 1990 and 1996.
So you ask, why does it matter if we chop down a few trees? The illegal and legal logging of the Amazon has increased gas emissions. It has driven locals into hiding or worse some Amazon tribes are on the verge of extinction. “Brazil said on Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with extinction” (“Brazil Fights Illegal Logging to Protect Amazon Natives”). The Awa people are among some of the people losing their land.
The Walt Disney Company open EuroDisney in April 1992, and expected their most lavish park to be a success, since it was larger and Disneyland, Disneyworld and Tokyo Disneyland. Much to the company’s surprise, European’s were not flocking to the park in the massive numbers that visited Tokyo Disneyland. At Tokyo Disneyland, families would stay overnight and often spend around $600 per visit, and many visitors were repeat customers. In contrast, European families were reluctant to stay overnight, and they did not want to spend the $280 a day to visit the park. Paris was chosen for the location of EuroDisney over 200 other sites because the French government had offered incentives to the company, along with the demographic data available showing Paris to be Europe’s most visited city by tourists.
Next thing the world knew thousands of animals were being killed either in or for animal experimentation. Now more than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in U.S. labs each year and that is only a percentage of all the animals that are truly used, all others (94%) are excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection; the Animal Welfare Act, which controls the use of animals in research. So we may never
Population Size The four factors that produce changes in population size are the rate at which individual organisms produce offspring, which is birth rate (b), the rate at which individual organisms die, which is death rate (d), immigration, which is individuals enter the population and it increases the size, and emigration (e), which is individuals leave a population and it decreases in size. Due to the environment where Nutria’s tend to live, there are no real predators to help with the downsizing of this rapidly growing population. These small rodents thrive off of eating plants and the roots, which result in unsettling grounds to walk on. Fortunate for the Nutria’s, they are light weight and are able to move across unsteady grounds, making it harder for any other animal that would prey on them to impact the population. While they do not have any predators, another factor is that female Nutria’s can breed up to 10-15 babies a year.
100 billion of the 380 billion are plastic shopping bags. • An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to make that many plastic bags. • Only 1 to 2% of plastic bags in the USA end up getting recycled. • Thousands of marine animals and more than 1 million birds die each year as a result of plastic pollution. • The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean.
Animal testing is a very controversial issue today. It can also be referred to as vivisection, which literally means the cutting up of living animals. Philosopher Aristotle is one of the first to have experimented on animals in the 4th century. Testing started out in the medical field but later spread to other fields such as cosmetics, food, and science. In 1890 a Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, demonstrated ‘classical conditioning’ on dogs.
[4] A 2007 report shows 239 pandas living in captivity inside China and another 27 outside the country. [9] Wild population estimates vary; one estimate shows that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild,[9] while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. [10] Some reports also show that the number of pandas in the wild is on the rise. [11][12] However, the IUCN does not believe there is enough certainty yet to reclassify the species from Endangered to Vulnerable. [1] While the dragon has historically served as China's national emblem, in recent decades the panda has also served as an emblem for the country.
For many years mankind have been developing all kinds of technology to make their lives safer and more comfortable. From the day we started, we do make a progress on living qualities and such progress is supposed to make our lives better on this planet. However, it must be recognized, that the progress has been reaching by a huge price: destruction of the Earth. It feels like human cannot understand, that natural resources are not endless. For instance, people deforest grown trees without planting young trees.