Wild Animals Under Threat of Extinction
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The amount of wild animals caught or eaten each year is close to or possibly even exceeding the species’ maximum yield levels. One day, they’ll be driven to extinction due to human intervention. The extinction of these animals will cause us to lose our rich biological system forever. As a matter of fact, these could be the end of the animal world! Shall we allow this horrible thing to happen on our lovely earth?
There seems that only public pressure, intertional protest and stringent regulations enforcing in every country will help ensure these animals remain protected in the years to come.
Stepping into the 20th century, the advanced equipment and hunting methods have killed over 2 millions whales; the captured was so huge until blue whale hunting within the Southern Hemisphere was banned by international agreement in 1966. Whales are increasingly threatened with extinction, therefore eating whale meat and other threatened species isn’t the good way to protect our environment. Further, due to the fuel used by whaling vessels, every kilo of whale meat is equivalent to 1.9 kilos of carbon dioxide emission to the air.
Up to now, blue whale populations, the largest mammals on Earth, are estimated to be as low as 1000-2000. Besides blue whale, the Pacific grey whale, the humpback whale, the fin whale, the bowhead whale, Maui’s dolphins, the Baltic harbor porpoise, the northern right whale and the Antarctic blue whale are considered as the most critically endangered species. In most cases, those whales that contain the most abundant perfume and oil ingredients are rapidly becoming extinct in that regard. Then again, the Japanese and the Russians still use products made from whales by ignoring whale hunting ban enforced by the United Nations.
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