Endangered Species

As the rainforests slowly disappear and as developers the world over raze lands to build housing complexes and shopping malls, the number of endangered species continues to increase.

The primary contributing factor to the decline of the number of species around the world is a loss of habitat. When most animals lose their natural habitat, they find it hard to adjust. As a consequence, over the years, their numbers decline and they slowly fade from our memories.

The only hope for many of these species to survive is for society to finally begin to recognize their importance to us and to the earth. Important enough that we actually begin to get serious about protecting the environment.

Man has an impact on the environment far beyond his numbers. In the natural scheme of things, change to environments and ecosystems occurs slowly. As a result, the creatures that depend on that habitat have time to adjust. The speed with which man can clear a forest of trees or pollute a lake of fish can happen so breathtakingly fast that the animals, unable to adjust to the new environment, begin to disappear.

Many people wonder why it is so important to save endangered birds, animals, plants, and the like. After all, survival of the fittest is supposed to be a natural fact of evolution. And while that may be true, it is still no reason why we should hasten the demise of a species. In one sense, we are only harming ourselves when we do so. For example, many of the medicines that we use to treat diseases and to save millions of lives a year had their origins in the plant world. And in the last 5 years alone, at least hundreds of these plant species, that have only been found in the rainforests, have forever disappeared.

Who knows how many species of plants have been destroyed that may have contained within them the cure to arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and more?

Another thing to think of is that mankind is a species also. And when we destroy the environments of other creatures, in a way we are destroying our own. Many times the harm to an ecosystem is not recognized by the generation that is doing the destruction. That's why we were able to destroy the American buffalo so fast.

It is also why many today are unable to see the destruction that global warming is having on the earth as a whole. But, you can be sure that our children will notice it. And odds are that they will not have kind words for our ignorance and willful inaction whilst living in the midst of the destruction.

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