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The Endangered Species List A Step At Saving The Endangered

The Endangered Species list is a must have for animals of all sorts. It is a way to protect the animals from harm or extinction. The animals have a hard time staying alive or populating in this world today. The list is the last sort of protection the animals have to survive. We must preserve and protect. Thats why we should have the Endangered Species List.

The Endangered Species Act of 1966 - 1988(Start of the Endangered Species List) was the first sign of help to animals. If we took their only means of survival, imagine what would be lost. Animals were being hunted, killed, and used for trade that the population of most animals were decreasing that led most to be endangered, extinct, or sadly someplace in between. It was made to help the animals and that is what the Endangered Species List is here to do. It is the last thing that stops hunters, poachers, exterminators, and illegal traders from killing the very existence of these animals. It is crucial that we keep this list. It is the very key to animal survival.

By keeping the list we are keeping the animals, and by keeping the animals we are keeping our research to. There are so many exotic animals out there and other people are killing them. Without the protection of the Endangered Species List and the Act we lose valuable information. Information that can help us understand life in the animal kingdom. Research is valuable to our understanding in life and animals help us with that. What would we have learned if there were no primates, what if there were no birds to give us the idea to fly, what of the fish that give us ideas to swim. Where would research be if there were no animals? We use so many animal like things in our everyday lives. So you see by helping them we are benefiting ourselves.

Besides that, the Endangered Species List has helped greatly. A status number of species have become stable or improved. It stopped the illegal trade of exotic animals. And it helps boost the animals up for when their population numbers drop. So without this little source of help the animals will be no longer existent. By keeping this we keep the animals.

What good the Endangered Species List does helping in so many ways. But what are the downfalls of this. This protection service has become over run by politicians and leaves a great burden on business. Also the movement of laws are affecting the economy and also interferes in the progress. One more thing is that it is greatly bothered by litigation and lack of funds. So even though this is a helpful thing it is also a process that takes too long for some animals. A Tucson, Ariz.-based environmental group says that species linger on the list for more than 17 years. That is time that not many animals have. The Red Knot is predicted to be extinct in four years. The process too long, the problems so great, should we really have a Endangered Species List?

The answer is yes we should. We have had this list for many a year and what progress we may have made may be lost if we stop now. Taking the list from the animals is like taking a shield from a knight. They fight for survival everyday and we should lend them a hand or in their case a paw, wing, or even a fin. What would be the point of taking away a helpful thing when we would just end up back where we started those many years ago before the Endangered Species Act. It is us who determine the lives of these animals, and since we are the top species we should do everything we can to help the animals. Keep the list we keep the animals. Honestly who wouldn’t want to help a cute animal in need?

As someone said “Because there are no sighting in one location does not mean that no endangered species are found in that area.” The endangered species are important to our planet. They help with the plants, like worms the build air tunnels under the plants so the plants could get some air. Also some animals eat pests that eat the crops. Thats why the endangered list for plants and animals is very helpful to the world.

The main reason why the animals and plants are endangered is Habitat Destruction The water from cities and chemical run off from farms flow into the streams, rivers, and other water sources. In America, over 650,000,000 acres of wetland have been drained, and 1 million acres alone has vanished between 1985 and 1995. So the endangered animals have less and less space. The USFWS is trying many ways to protect plants and animals. They heighten public awareness, and preserve habitats. Also a conference in Washington D.C, in 1973, drew up the convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Which protects more then 600 species of animals and plants. There are some ways they try to protect the animals and plants.

The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. The purpose is to recover species around the world that are endangered or threatened because of humans. In 1988 it was reauthorized, because many animals became vulnerable, a species that is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in a medium-term future. In addition not all animals can make the list, only the ones that have less then ninety species left. Rich Nixon said while signing the act, he said “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation then the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed.”

Now some animals are trying to reproduce in captivity. Most animals can’t reproduce in captivity. They are not as comfortable as they are in their regular habitat. Like bears, they hibernate but in zoos they don’t. Hibernation happen because they don’t have as much food and it’s wintry, but in a zoo it temperature stays the same and the zookeepers feed them constantly. So they wont hibernate in zoos.

Some people think the endangered list is a waste of money. The USFWS doesn’t have enough money to keep the endangered list going. They can’t put all the animals on the list because they don’t have enough money. Many of the animals and plant isn’t inadequate to our planet.Plus most animals that are endangered are treacherous, or they spread disease. There are many animals and plants that are important to our planet, and they are going endangered or threatened. The animals and plants some somethings we need to keep alive or they mean something, think of a bald eagle, it’s the symbol of our country and its only found in the U.S. This list helps every endangered animal and every endangered plant. Every on can help by going green, using less paper because they cut down trees. Now as someone said “The greatness of a nation, can be judged by the way it treats it’s animals.”