Extinction

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Questions What is the main cause of animal extinction?
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which animals are the closest to extinction?


Definition Of Problem: Endangered animals are decreasing at an alarming rate and almost all the causes can be traced back to us. the main causes of extinction are habitat destruction, new species, over exploitation, disease and pollution. the number of pandas has gone down a lot and there are less than a hundred pandas left in the wild

by Jordan
 <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;"> **what is an extinct animal** =<span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: inline; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">why are they extinct? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">what effects does it have on us humans? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">Conservation (Michael)  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">  <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">Can conservation help the world? <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">If it can, what does it help? <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">How can it help? <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">Is conservation important? <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">Definition of the problem by Michael: <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">In the world there are many animals that have gone extinct and there are many that are on the edge of extinction. <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">This is a problem in many ways. First of all when an animal gets extinct, it messes up the food chain, and that would probably cause more   <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">animals to get extinct. Then second is that if many animals get extinct the humans could have problems with food. Then last is that I think that it would hurt many people to see a beautiful animal get extinct. For example, if the white bengal tiger gets extinct, or the giant panda, it would make many people get upset and mad. To prevent this there is conservation   = =<span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;"> Conservation can help prevent this by holding some of the animal species that are getting extinct in captivity, let them reproduce and then free them repeating the same steps over and over. This procedure would help get the population of that animal back up again. = = = =<span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">QUESTIONS: 1) What is extinction? 2) Will the extinction of animals affect humans? 3) What are some animals that have become extinct? 4) What are some animals that are becoming extinct? ANSWERS: 1) A word that describes a species that is dead and no longer exists. 2) The extinction of animals will probably affect humans because humans are animals as well, and they rely on animals to survive. 3) Some animals that have become extinct include the Do-Do bird, which used to be found in the island of Mauritius, and the Cave Bear, which used to live in Europe in the Pleistocene Era. 4) Animals that are becoming extinct are called Endangered. Some of these animals include the Silver Back Gorilla, and the African Elephant because poachers are killing them. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(121, 253, 83); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 80%;">     =