For The Love of Animals
Did you know: Scientists have cataloged more than one and
one-half million of the species that exist on Earth today. By some
recent estimates, at least 20 times that many species inhabit the
planet.
Up to 100 species become extinct every day. Scientists estimate
that the total number of species lost each year may climb to 40,000
by the year 2000, a rate far exceeding any in the last 65 million
years.
No single reason can be pointed to as the sole cause of an
organism's extinction. Instead, many different factors work together
to produce circumstances and
situations that result in biological destruction. Hunting, habitat
loss, and pollution are great factors that hurt the livelihood of
many species, but the final push comes from a reduction in some way
of the species' ability to adapt.
When an animal has had its home, its food, and its natural
defenses taken away from them, it is virtually impossible for them
to fight their way back from the edge of extinction alone. They need
the help of human beings to rebuild their habitats, restock their
populations, and restore their worlds to their natural order.
It took many individual acts adding up together to produce the
enormity of wildlife destruction on earth today. It will take many
individual acts adding up together to reverse that devastation, and
restore our world to a brighter, better, more beautiful place.
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