I want to be in animal conservation & endangered speices!
Listen up! This is what I really do feel, otherwise I will not be happy, so I have to be. I know this is my place & where I belong. I know how things were before, but having seen the actual facts on www.itv.com/extinct, it's so shocking & I just can't have that; I've had enough!!!
I would like all of you to think about what we can all do to help endangered species live on & what I can do at my school. I have to ask my head master about this but I have got to tell others about it because
I just can't let people do their thing & decide what to do, because they won't do it. They either don't care, forget or don't realise what is happening. I have to tell them straight & tell them the facts. Once they know, they will know & will also do something such as donating, fund raising, animal adoption etc.
I am getting my mum an adopted elephant for Christmas & from her I want a tiger. I am happy with that because I know I am helping & it's a good feeling. To do nothing, it's not nice....
Some ideas are:
1.Sponsored walk/run/cycle/swim etc
2. Dress up (& above also if want)
3. Put up posters & information on how to help, the facts, events going on etc.
This is good but what else?
We do also hold a event every year that involves tombola, raffle, barbecue, selling items & fun to raise money for the RSPCA. The money we make is the money we send off to them.
But the next time we do one, I think it should go to endangered species such as the panda, elephant, tiger, polar bear & more! I also think we should hold them more often instead of just once a year.
But the thing is, my mum tells people but they just don't want to know. They're either busy, can't be bothered & don't see how important this is. Me & my mum arrange this event at our house & not that many turn up. People can be busy, but they can't even spare half an hour to donate some money & to buy something to raise money for animals.
This is why people have got to told like children, otherwise we can't do enough to help!
1. In the last 100 years, 94% of tigers' population has disappeared & three subspeices of tiger is extinct. As I see it, 100 years = 100% & within 94 years, 94% has gone. Within another 6 years, they could be gone forever.
2. 30,000 Asian elephants left in the wild. They share their habitat with one fifth of the world's human population & compete for living space.
3. Surviving for more than a hundred million years, the leatherback turtle is facing extinction. Less than 2000 females exist in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. People invaded & caused these to fall to such low numbers!
4. 6500 hyacinth macaws left in wild; 5000 of which on one part of Brazil. They existed in the hundreds of thousands, but now the largest member of parrot family is facing extinction.
5. Polar bear's habitat is shrinking so fast, that they could disappear by 2080 which is less than 90 years. The sea level is rising too fast due to thoughtless, greedy & selfish pollution, all for the sake of money!
6. Mountain gorilla is one of the most critically endangered, with less than 720 left in the wild!
7. In last 10 years, population of the orang-utan has fallen 30%-50%. From 230,000 to less than 60,000! Fastest declining great apes.
8. 1600 giant pandas left & few remaining being forced into fragmented areas because of the conversion of forests to farm land, taking away their homes.
Having read this or/and watched the intro for yourself, I hope this has sunk in & that you will do something to help. Every penny counts because it adds up to thousands of pounds. Donate the spare pennies left in your bag. If 10,000 people donated only £1 each, that's £10,000 towards them which is fantastic, but small can also make a huge difference & it could be your extra few pence that changes the fate of an animal being extinct or wiped out for good!
Watch Extinct on ITV1 from 9th Dec. Trevor McDonald along with others will feature in the show about the speices coming close to disappearing forever.
Also tell me if you do anything such as an event or thinking about doing one. Remember to share ideas about what to do at my school. Many thanks.
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Hey, all are important than each other & should not be turned down at all just because it isn't a mammal. You might as well not care at all. It's okay to like mammals more than them, I prefer mammals to sea creatures but love them all & will help.
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In reference to the list: I like tigers, elephants, gorillas, polar bears, and pandas, and would be willing to save them more than a reptile who's already been on the planet longer than it's share.
Mammals are still new on the geopgraphic timeline.
I don't believe in a first & top species. That's how most people see it. Because we can make decisions, learn more than they do, design stuff, do stuff etc, they look at animals & compared to us they think they're thick & not important as us.
I don't believe in that at all. They can do stuff we can't. They know when danger is coming, climb, build their own home, hunt using their own power, swim more etc. They may not understand human language or learn Maths, but they know how to survive without harming the planet.
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I don't either. I think they are all equal. Nothing special.I don't even think lie is special. I think stones and trees and such are also equal. I just happen to be a human so I prefer humans personally.
That isn't fair at all. That's if to say that we've been here long enough, out we go! It's not their fault they've been here longer than us & it's not the same ones, it's the new ones for their turn to live. The only time something has had it's time to live is when it natrually dies.
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whats the deal with conservationists...it is completely at odds with nature to try and protect the survival of species...
the only species that has an idiotic urge to protect others is us humans....granted we are responsible for the extinction of many species but did you ever stop to think that maybe its what we as a species are supposed to do...drive the adaption of other species to our enviroment and weed out those who are incapable of adapting
take the panda...pointless waste of time trying to conserve a species with such a feeble grip on survival...yet we throw huge resourses at these kinds of project in some vein attempt to preserve the past
there are more species that have went extinct way before human beings ever entred the equation...
it happens...be it from meteor strikes, supervolcanic eruptions or human intervention...and face it...the former 2 have had far more of an impact than the later 1 and in a much shorter timescale aswell....and still life goes on....and still we have a massively diverse planet...
...adapting to our destruction of every ecosystem we inhabit or purge of resources? perhaps. perhaps we are mean to knock off all balance in nature and kill all life, including ourselves ultimately.
if thats the case, maybe we should at least attempt to defy such a destiny, no?
Mostly not. In the case of the Dinosaurs then yes & other animals that were caught up in that. Take the tiger for example. Why do you think in 100 years, 94% of it's population has gone? It's not of natural death or fighting with another tiger, it isn't because there isn't enough tigers in the world. It's because people shoot them for fun, to use their fur & bones to sell. So many bring the tiger population down because of this & everyday tigers are being killed unatrually...
People just don't understand the importance of wildlife like people. It's a tiger, it's a living creature with feelings. It feels the emotions we feel from anger to fear. If you kill, you are a murderer, no matter what it is you kill. Killing for food is different but I still don't agree with that but I'm okay with it. Me & my mum are vegetarians because of this & because of the taste too.
Dolphins get caught in fishing nets all the time. Elephants are killed for their tusks. Orang-utans are kept as pets then dumped when too much trouble to care for them. They don't know how to survive in the wild. Polars bears' homes melting away because too much pollution at once. This is only a few.
Pollution needs to be kept under control & slowed down until we can think of ways of using solar & wind power. Those wind turbines are genious! Too many cars for a start. Every single person has just got to get a bloody car ain't they as soon as they're old enough to drive...pathetic! I stick to buses, walking or bike. Buses will hold more people. One car usually holds 5 people. If 5 people were to use one car instead of one person per car, that's 4 less cars off the road per every five cars. Instead of 5 cars, 1 car. The numbers would go down so quickly & will buy us more time.
Don't talk about the panda like that either.
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You're familiar with survival of the fittest, right? Well it also applies to humans. Homo sapiens is just another animal species, and like many other animals, Homo sapiens kills. It doesn't matter in he kills because he has to eat or just for fun, species will go extinct. Hell, even cats kill for pleasure; namely jaguars and leopards.
All species will go extinct regardless of the cause. The only thing that conservationist are doing/accomplishing, is post-poning a natural [and eventual] process.
It's true, ey. The panda is about as doomed as a snowman in Las Vegas.
In fact, they'll probably go extinct in your lifetime.
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Last edited by Quiero Mota on Dec 4th, 2006 at 08:50 PM
I want to be in animal conservation & endangered speices!
Dec 2nd, 2006 11:54 PM
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