Endangered animals that live in the United States or Russia have some of the same problems and the animals that live in the rainforest or the desert. These animals can live on land or in water. They very from the Sand Cats, Mountain Gorillas, sea Turtles, Humpback Whales, African Penguins to Bald Eagles. The best ways to help save these Endangered animals are to stop the destruction and changing of their habitats, find better ways to stop and catch poachers before they get to these animals and to help the environments that they live in. Joel Sartore an acclaimed national geographic photographer thinks that time may be running out for many of these endangered animals. “Scientists think many of them face extinction. Sartore agrees.” The scientist and Sartore think that if we do not start helping endangered animals more of them will soon go extinct. Sartore thinks we can fix the problem. He said that “Endangered animals need protection from hunters and disease. They need space to move around. They need food and a safe habitat. They need a healthy planet.” All of these stated solutions are able to be reached if enough people would help out. Saving these animals lives takes as little as making a donation or to help pick up trash that you walk by.
Endangered animals especially need their habitats. They need places to live and find their food. They need safe places to raise their young. The loss of their habitats is one of the most serious threats that these animals face. “As the number of people on earth grows, animal habitats shrink. More people need more farms to grow food, more room to build houses, and more timber for houses and furniture. This means less land and fewer rainforests for animals. Every day thousands of animals homes are destroyed.” Trees play a crucial role in supporting life across the globe, producing oxygen and absorbing climate change-causing carbon dioxide. But, despite the plant’s importance, humans have had little idea how many trees actually live on planet Earth. Now, new research published in the journal Nature suggests the world is home to more than 3 trillion trees. Humans throughout history have played a key role in determining the number of living trees, researchers note. People cut down 15 billion trees each year and the global tree count has fallen by 46% since the beginning of human civilization. Most animals can’t find new homes. If their habitats are destroyed, they are lost too. Especially the animals that require these trees to survive like the golden lion tamarin. The Golden Lion Tamarin uses these trees for safety, food, and a place to live. Endangered animals need their habitats saved and protected in order for them to survive and possibly make a recovery. “Not all animals facing extinction die out. Some survive in healthy ecosystems. An ecosystem is an area where different kinds of plants and animals live together. They depend on each other to survive.” This is why endangered animals can’t just be moved to a different location and be expected to live and survive the same way. An endangered species may not have the ability to change what they eat, the way they hunt, and when they eat and sleep.
Poaching endangered animals almost ensure that they will not make a recovery. Animals like the Amur Leopard are so critically endangered that there is thought to be less than 70 left alive today yet they are still being hunted. “Unfortunately poaching, and buying and selling, animal products made from endangered species is a billion-dollar business. It's almost as big as the illegal trade in drugs. To slow the trade and prevent rare animals from becoming extinct, a treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was written in the early 1970s and signed by more than 140 countries. But there are still many poachers selling their kills to dealers who make souvenirs, clothing, jewelry, and medicine.” the less of the species that exist the more than it’s worth. “Brown's phone had rung at 3:30 a.m.; his contact at the Thai Royal Forestry Department was calling to announce a seizure of wildlife contraband. Brown, who for the past years has been documenting file international trade in animals, had no idea what to expect–a package of tiger teeth on their way to China? The catch turned out to be live pangolins–endangered mammals that look like a cross between a possum and a pinecone–482 of them, carefully stowed in shipping crates with dry ice to induce hibernation. "It was incredibly professional, very organized”. Let's go back to the island of Mauritius, where the dodo made its home until its existence was snuffed out by thoughtless humans. People who live on the island noticed that the Calvaria, one of their prized trees, was in danger. All they could find were some very old trees. No young ones were growing anywhere, and when people tried to start new plants from Calvaria seeds, they were unsuccessful. Scientists were invited to look into the problem. They guessed that the seeds of the Calvaria probably had to pass through the gut of an animal before they could germinate, or sprout. This first step is common to many species of tropical trees. The animals not only help to disperse the seeds, but the chemicals in their stomachs trigger the seeds' germination. But there was no animal on the island that could swallow the large seeds of this tree.
As scientists thought about the problem, they realized that the youngest Calvaria trees on Mauritius were about 300 years old. It occurred to them that the dodo had become extinct from the island about 300 years before. Could the dodo have been the missing link in the germination chain? Since the dodo did not exist anymore, the scientists had to make do with the next best thing. The living bird that most closely resembles the dodo is the domestic turkey, so Calvaria seeds were fed to turkeys. To the great joy of the island's inhabitants, who had been afraid they were about to lose another part of their natural heritage, the seeds sprouted.
How we are affecting the environment and its effect on endangered animals and ways to fix it. “Not only does a healthy ecosystem ensure biodiversity, but people reap many benefits from the natural world. Nearly 40 percent of the healing drugs we use are derived from plants, animals, and small organisms. Curare, a poison obtained from plants that grow in the rainforest, is used by surgeons to relax muscles during surgery. An extract from the rosy periwinkle plant that grows in the forests of Madagascar is used to fight leukemia. Cyclosporine, which comes from a fungus that was discovered in Norway, is used to prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs. Other beneficial natural substances are found every year.”