Animal Extinction by Nicklaus Ng

          The phrase “animal extinction” means that particular breed of animal disappears from the world forever. It is a serious matter where animals disappear from the earth forever. Some extinct animals are Dodo Birds and Tasmanian Tigers while some endangered animals are tigers and elephants. There are many factors which cause animal extinction, namely hunting, trapping, taking animals for profit, destruction of their habitat and pollution. All these causes take place as people hunt them for food and skin, destroy the forests to construct buildings and also factories release poisonous gases and chemicals into the air and water, thus killing the animals.

          Valuable resources are used to educate people so that they can still see the animals in the years to come by. Although there are people who destroy the animals, they are also groups such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund which are trying to create awareness and educate people in places where there are a lot of hunting not to hunt for endangered species, like African elephants being poached in Africa.

          We can also cultivate our mind by not buying products made from endangered animals like ivory chopsticks and mats from tiger fur.

                                     




http://www.tigerdata.info/extinct-tigers/extinct-tiger-species/
The last known Tasmanian tiger died in 1936 in a Tasmanian Zoo.

http://www.safaribwana.com/TROPHY/trophpages/elephant.htm
Someone hunting an elephant for its tusk which is ivory and can be made into ivory chopsticks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tysonecuz/301480497/
A hunter hunting a tiger for its fur to make into mats.

http://listverse.com/2009/07/25/10-recently-extinct-animals/
The last captive Quagga, a mare, died on 12 August 1883 in Amsterdam Zoo, where she had lived since 9 May 1867. The Quagga became extinct because it was ruthlessly hunted down for meat and leather by South African farmers.

http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/07/where_are_all_t.html
The last Passenger Pigeon, named Martha, died alone in the Cincinnati Zoo at about 1:00 pm on September 1, 1914.