I chose this topic because I feel like this is a very important global issue that is still going on for a long period of time and we should do something about it before it’s too late and we ruin our planet. We may not realize but if many animals are going extinct this year rapidly, it will also affect human life because we will not have much food left to feed our human population of 7.2 billion. I am interested in this topic because without these animals the food chain will be imbalanced and also we will have many negative impacts such as food loss and that will make humans struggle and one day go through extinction.
First, I am going to do this by be doing a secondary research on my research question, and mostly focus on the heavy impacts of the animal’s habitat. To do that, I would need to understand the question clearly and not getting out of topic. I will also research about the effects, solutions that can fix the problem, and the advantages and disadvantages. To conclude, I will be also talking about my opinion about this subject and what I should do if I were the people that are ruining the forest and the animal’s habitat.
Humans can also cause harm of a species through overharvesting, pollution, habitat destruction, overhunting and many more. One of the heaviest impact that harms animals and its habitat is the planet’s human population. Human’s population has doubled in the last 50 years and it isn’t going to stop, it’ll keep increasing every second and the higher the population more animals will be pressured because of the billions of people that need to be fed. Another harmful act that humans are doing right now is deforestation, humans are cutting down too many trees for fuel and for furniture. While this is benefiting many people, many animals in the wild do not have a place to live because their homes are destroyed, and they have to adapt in another environment. Deforestation is damaging Earth's forests really dreadful, it causes heavy damage to the quality of the land. Forests around the world still cover about 30 percent of the world's land area but if we do not do anything about it, it will get worse until all the forests in the world have been demolished. The world's rain forests could completely disappear in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. But it is going to be difficult to fix this problem because forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people's need to provide for their families. The most common people that drive deforestation are farmers. Farmers cut down these trees for a reason, they cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing farm animals. These farmers often clear a few forests to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them in a process known as “slash and burn” farming.
Deforestation is a really harmful issue to our planet and it has many negative effects on the health of Earth and its surroundings. A really big impact is a loss of millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth’s land animal and plants live in forests, and many of these species will not be able to survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. It will be very depressing for them and they are forced to find another home or else they will suffer and die. Deforestation also drives climate change because forest soils are moist and without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out. Trees are also responsible to help continue the water cycle by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere. Without trees how are humans going to find another way to cover the trees’ role, this will cause forest lands to quickly become deserts. Cutting down trees causes the forest to depose the forest of portions of its canopy which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and holds in heat at night. This is very dangerous and leads to more extreme temperatures swings that can be harmful to plants and animals. Trees also play a very important role in soaking up the pollution that fuel global warming. Fewer forests mean larger amounts of pollution entering the atmosphere and increases the speed and extreme harshness of global warming.
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For instance, here in Indonesia, an animal that humans like to prey on is the Sumatran Tiger. They are endangered because their habitat has been cut down and nearly 80% of their forest land has been cut down. The reason why their habitat is being cut down is because their habitat contains palm oil. People use these oils for some of their foods and are being sold in the supermarkets. Another reason why they are endangered is because humans are poaching, killing and hunting them. There aren’t many Sumatran Tiger’s left in the wild in Sumatra, there are only 500-600 Sumatran Tigers left so it is really important to keep these Tigers safe and protect them before we lose them. In 1978 there were 1,000 Sumatran Tigers left and 25 years later the population of the Sumatran Tigers has been cut in half and that just shows that humans do not make an effort to save these tigers a couple years ago. Now we need to help and donate to many charities that can help save the Sumatran Tigers.
The effects of doing these harmful things to the animals and their habitat is that some plants would die out because they depend on animals to spread their seeds and without animals we wouldn’t be able to grow crops. Animals such as worms, insects, arachnids and all sorts of tiny creatures, we depend on them to grow food crops and is really essential for us humans. Plats cannot grow without animals and we wouldn’t have animals to eat because they would die from starvation. If all the species in our planet die, it is very likely that us humans will go extinct as well because we depend on them for our food that keeps us healthy and survive. Animals such as sheep, minks, cows, rabbits, foxes, raccoons, chinchillas, snakes, beavers, seals, bears, dogs and cats provide us with our clothing. Every single species in the world has a role and all of them are important, the size of a species does not matter for nature, the tiniest organism is as important for the ecosystem as the largest mammals. Every species in this planet is balanced to make the ecosystem balanced. If we do not stop doing these harmful things it might also affect our society therefore it should be prevented.
Many advantages that I pinpoint is that people cut down forests because they gain a lot of money from doing it and with that money they can help and spend it on their families to live and also make furniture’s for everybody. Furniture’s are everywhere around the world, everyone has them because they are essential and they help us to keep our home clean and organized. It benefits all of us but we are not benefiting the animals and their homes. The disadvantage of keeping them alive and healthy we instead are destroying their homes and they die due to starvation and they don’t have a place to live. We should really pay attention to that more because animals don’t deserve this, they should have a fair life just like us.
Humans in the future might already be technologically advanced and we can depend in any spare needs for food, recycled oxygen, water and much more. Keeping the natural resources to expand our society is still necessary to make this planet a better place. We should protect all living things in order to make this environment friendly and healthy and we can stop animal extinction by maintaining the environment. We can reduce deforestation by reducing the use of papers. Thousands of people buy books every year and just imagine how much paper has to be produced for a single book. Instead of wasting a lot of paper and causing deforestation for these books, we should be more advanced and buy books online and read it in their devices instead of buying a book that might be thrown away or even left unopen for years after finishing the book.
To conclude, I think that we should pay attention to this global issue more because if we don’t do anything and help our environment and ecosystem, we might have a really big problem ahead of us and it will destroy the next generation of humans and the planet. I hope that this essay will hopefully make people help our environment and to do the right thing.
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