SAVE THE WILDLIFE
The greatest threats to wildlife are habitat loss, climate change, pollution, overexploitation, and illegal wildlife trade.
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Habitat loss is currently the largest threat to all wildlife on our planet. Ecosystems have changed drastically due to human activities—such as agriculture, housing, oil and gas exploration, commercial development, and water diversion. With the world's forests, swamps, plains, lakes, and other habitats continuing to disappear as they are harvested and cleared for human consumption, an increasing number of animals are left with no place to call home.
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Animals face new challenges for survival due to climate change. More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, melting glaciers, rising sea levels and warming oceans can directly harm animals and destroy the places they live.
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Pollution is the contamination of air, water or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms. Pollution may muddy landscapes, poison soils and waterways, or kill plants and animals. Animals and their habitats are significantly impacted by toxic pollutants. Air pollution can affect wildlife indirectly by changing plant communities. Plastic pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds, sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it.
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Overexploitation, the overuse of wild animal and plant species by people, threatens wildlife as well. The industrialization of the fishing industry and the increasing global demand for seafood have people taking more fish from oceans, lakes and rivers than is sustainable. Certain species of birds are collected or hunted for sport, food, and the cage-bird pet trade; millions of birds are traded internationally each year. People have always hunted mammal species for fur, food, sport, and their horns or antlers and today, illegal hunting still threatens many species, especially large mammals such as tigers, rhinoceros, bears, and primates.
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Illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be a multibillion-dollar business involving the trafficking and unsustainable trade in wildlife commodities such as elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, tiger bone, bear bile, and rosewood causing unprecedented declines in some of the world's most charismatic wildlife species. Endangered animals and plants are often the target of wildlife crime because of their rarity and increased economic value and this is pushing them further towards extinction.
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Hi, my name is Jiya. I am very passionate about animals and was motivated to make this website to bring awareness about wildlife conservation and help protect animals all around the world. The animals of this Earth are our world and we must do better to protect their lives and their habitats from the dangers created by humans.