Why save endangered animals? ?
cheeseisgood98 asked:
Why should we save endangered animals? Why are they important to us? Any info would be great.
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Why should we save endangered animals? Why are they important to us? Any info would be great.
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it changes the entire food chain. if lions go extinct, zebra population would grow so fast. if zebra population is too much, there isnt enuf grass for other animals thats an easy example tho
if there is an endangered specie gone it would let other species grow breaking the balance and overpopulation causing more species to diminish and we will all get screwed!!!!(not in the perverted manner)
In the first place, you shouldn’t ask why they are important to us. Whether a species is of use to us -whether we can eat it, or wear it’s skin, or we just find it pretty- doesn’t matter; humans are 99% of the time responsible for that species being endangered. So it should be our responsibility to save it.
Secondly, every time a species disappears there is another loss to the richness of life on our planet. The dodo, the passenger pigeon, the tasmanian wolf, the bali tiger, the golden toad, the tarpan, the quagga, Steller’s sea cow, the giant moa… they’re gone forever. You’ve probably never even heard of some of them. But they’re not there any more.
Thirdly, they are important. Even the mussels (like the tubercled-blossom pearly mussel, declared extinct in 1969). Because everything is part of the food chain, so when a species vanishes the rest are affected. What would happen if foxes disappeared? Rabbits would have one predator less. And they would breed… well, they would breed like rabbits. And rabbits eat a lot; they would eat the grass, and probably eat our fields too. If a prey species vanishes, their predators are affected as well. It’s like a card castle; remove a card from the bottom and the whole structure comes crashing down.
And fourth? I don’t know, really. I’ve always loved animals, so the idea of a species disappearing is a terrible one to me. Maybe (probably) you’re not as crazy about animals as I am, but perhaps it’ll shock you to know that almost 17000 species have, as of 2008, been defined as threatened. This is 38% of all the species that have been checked so far by the IUCN (the Red List). Many species we know nothing of, and it’s probable that many, so many will die out before we even know they’re there. I want to be a biologist, and to me it feels like losing part of my life.
Gosh. I think I may have overdone it. Sorry.