animals and nature

There are many endangered animals. These animals are becoming endangered because of climate change, pollution, hunting, loss of habitat, and loss of genetic variation. Rhinos are becoming endangered. People are hunting them because they use their horns for decorations and traditional medicine. Elephants are also being hunted by humans for their ivory tusks. About one million marine animals die each year because of plastic straws and half the world's sea turtles have ingested plastic. You know who did that too- humans.

Humans have a big impact on this too. It's not just climate change or loss of genetic variation. Us hunting does not help. It makes it worse. Us polluting the ocean does not help. One way we can help to stop hunting is by not buying blackmarket items and we can help polluting by not buying plastic items and “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!”

A lot of animals are dying at this moment, but how? There are some normal reasons they are dying. Some die of old age. Some die of diseases. For unnatural causes, some die of pollution so always recycle and try to help the cause, and some die because of the poachers. For the people who don't know what poaching is, poachers kill the animals for their qualities such as tusks, fur, teeth and more. Poaching is illegal because they harm the animals a lot and they do it just for money. They kill large amounts of animals even if they are endangered. The animals could go extinct because of this. If you see any animals getting harmed make sure to help these endangered animals and report to the police if anyone is harming these animals.

Ever heard that the sloths and monkeys are endangered? Did you realize that to sloths and monkeys a tree is more than just a tree? Well, some people don't realize that and just cut down all the trees. Each year, humans cut down 3.5 to 7 billion trees. Each of those trees is probably home to at least one animal. This is happening right now, probably right this very second an animal is losing its home, there are a lot of animals losing their homes more than just sloths and monkeys.

Monkeys lose their homes because of hunting in Asia and because of habitat loss. What did they do to deserve this? There are 5 species of monkey nearly extinct! And do you want to know why? Well, here's your answer. Humans.

Sloths are losing their homes for two reasons. First, they are losing trees and that is where they live. A sloth rarely ever leaves their tree. Unlike a monkey, a sloth can’t just run and swing away so if the tree is going a sloth will probably not have enough time to get out. Another reason sloths are endangered are poachers accidently hitting them instead of a bird! A lot of sloths end up thinking that power lines are trees and they climb on them. They can sometimes get shocked and hurt really badly or even be electrocuted and die.

A good way to think of it is a sloth or monkey losing a tree is like me cutting your house in half while you sleep. You wouldn’t like that, would you? So save the sloths and monkeys because to them it's not just a tree. It's a home.

Do you ever notice that animals in the ocean are dying because of plastic and garbage? Do you ever see pictures at school on the wall saying, “Save the Animals in the Ocean!”? Well, once again I'm here to tell you what the cause is. This time, it’s humans. Human's appetites. And their thirst for fish in their mouths.

The first state of matter to attend to is that shark populations are going down every single year. Humans catch sharks just for fun and then let them go right away. But when people kill the shark, they usually make shark fin soup and when they do, they cut off the fins and then throw the rest of the shark away and don’t eat it.

And when it could get much worse, it does. Six shark species were listed “critically endangered,” three for the first time ever: the Whitefin Swellshark, the Argentine angel shark, and the Smoothback angel shark.

Sharks are very very important to the ocean. If they go extinct, they are at the top of the food chain so there will be way too many fish in the ocean. Fish will be overpopulated. But the squid will take care of it. Nope. They eat all the fish and then they starve. There is no other way to save the ocean without sharks. So let the sharks be free!

The second state of matter to attend to is that the ocean covers 70 percent of this planet, meaning that it is by far the earth's most natural resource. Oceans govern the weather, clean the air, feed the world, and give a living for everyone. Oceans are also home to most of the life on earth, from algae to the largest creature on earth, the Blue Whale.

But all they're doing for this planet is nice but we just bombard them with pollution. From dangerous carbon to choking plastic to leaking oil to constant noise. What we do to the ocean is not right and every year the ocean gets more “endangered.”

This is what happens every year. We hurt the ocean unintentionally. For all they do for us, this is how we treat them? It just doesn’t make any sense. But I hope whoever is doing this will stop. Just hope and pray that our ocean will remain for ever and ever. Because it's more than just a stream or body of water. It's a home to many creatures and life like no other.