Extinct Animals?
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This really depends on which animals go extinct first. For example, if there are 100 plants that 100 animals can eat, if one of those plants go extinct, it doesn't have that much of an impact. Buuut, if there is only one plant that a lot of species eats, then there will be many more species dying, especially if the animals that eat it also make up a major part of a food web. I agree however, on the estimated "extinction in 2100" theory, because it motivates people to go green, and it is a relatively accurate theory.
humans
Hard to say. Who really knows the environmental impact we have on every ecosystem in the world? Plus, there are so many species that have never even been seen or categorized by humans. Your question is important to think about but impossible to answer.
Who knows?/ Animals go extinct from time to time and sometimes new ones replace them. This is just a fact of life. How do we know that "Going Green" as it is called is a good thing?? This old Earth has undergone many changes and it will continue doing so. We have had many ice ages and we will again and I would guess it has heated up a few times too. On the First Earth day (30 years ago) we were worried about the coming Ice age
too many.
An eminent Harvard biologist predicts that our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by 2100 and many biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious environmental problem than even its contributor, global warming.
At the rate at which global warming is going, by 2050, one million species of animals will become extinct. ONE MILLION, in less less than 45 years!
i was watching a eport abot that today and it said that a few year years ago, we lost a species a bout evry 1 hundered years i believe. now we lose about 5 evry 1 hundered years! so very sad! but it is good to know that we can stop it be going green!! save the planet! save the humans!!
this is a hard one no one now for shure it could
1,2,3,4,5,10,20,30,40,50,60,70...
evan 1000. it all depands on all of us to keep
the water clean and forest for the animals.
you see if we each do our part we can make
shure that our great grand kids get to see
the same animals we did when we were growing up!
hundreds
of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.
a lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.
some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:
the hunting of exotic species for the consumer market
only about 10% of the animals caught survive
the hunting of animals for food by settlers
forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control
the loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)
because of contamination of the waters ,
expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .
In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years
the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.
TV put out a series of documentaries
there are campaigns in the News papers
and all of this has not made the slightest difference
Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest
the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue
and the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals
CLIMATE CHANGE
And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,
vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain
90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.
Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.
If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.
Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .
so much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .
only time will tell what is in store for us ,and that time is running now .
everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more
It has been a long time but I have heard that over 100 insects,and animal types go extinct everyday. All due to deforestation, pollution, and weather changes.
Who knows how many will survive what we have help speed up.
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