25 October 2009

Extinction of species




(In the cartoon the person of the left worries about the future, the person of the right does not want to know about him future)/Otter/Iberian lynx 

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Some sorts of animals are in danger of extinction. The main reason is the destruction caused by the human race. Animal traffic is the third biggest business in world-wide underground crime, just after guns and drugs. In the last three hundred years we caused the mass extinction of more than a million different species. Nowadays, people have so busy lives that are left with little time to think about these worldwide problems. The extinction of species is probably one of the most important problems in our days, but few people think about it. Only the people that work in that area take special care with the subject, because they know what’s wrong and if they want to improve or even to resolve the problem, they change their habits, to give to the animals a higher life quality. When we see people in the zoo, laughing because the animals are funny, we think that we are in another world because we’re not used to see these animals. It’s because of this, that extinction problem loses importance. People don’t usually see these animals so they don’t care about their extinction. This idea has to be changed, if this problem continues too many animals will die and that could eventually lead to the extinction of the human race. We have to resolve quickly. This is a case of life or death. Can’t people imagine their future, if we do not change our habits?


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Posted by: Cristiano Alves, number 7

3 comments:

  1. This post is very good and it's about something that I am very interested in. In my point of view we, human beans, have to look at it more serious. It's true that according to the natural cycle of life, some species become extinct and others ''born'' but I think that we are damaging this balance and this way more and more species become extinct and this just happen due to the human bean’s greed.
    Just a suggestion: you should put in your post ways to fight this problem.
    By the way great post.
    Bernardo.P. 11ct5

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  2. This is a big problem indeed. And the lack of attention the subject receives is even worse. If I was asked to name one specie that is at the risk of extinction I wouldn't be able to name one and be 100% sure about what I said (even after just hearing about an Iberian Lynx being transported to Portugal - And by the way, I just had to check the information again: http://ecosfera.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1406914).

    To make it even worse, there's nothing that we, alone, can do to try and change the situation. Not only does fighting this problem take a lot of time, it must also be fought side by side with a large number of people and against men that have more power over the world than I or you can imagine.

    João Fernandes

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  3. Indeed this is a big problem, and the fact that many people haven't seen a decent variety of animals only makes it easier for them not to care about said animals.
    The best, in my opinion, would be to raise awareness of the situation so that people may properly worry about animals and act accordingly, however, I doubt it as simple as that, it never is.

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