The big cats are becoming less and less common to see around Africa. Their numbers have fallen 30 percent in the past two decades due to humans hunting them at unsustainable levels. Because of this, Obama has proposed that they are put in the Endangered Species Act to help protect them.
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/african-lions-are-set-to-become-the-last-big-cat-listed-under-the-endangered-species-act/2014/10/27/d13904a0-5de9-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html
analysis: This story can be related to how people hunted beavers for fur trade when the French were first colonizing America. They hunted many beavers to sell their fur in trade. Also, the Native Americans (nomadic ones) would follow a herd of buffalo and kill them for their meat, pelt, horns, etc. and when they hunted all of the buffalo in the area, they would move on to another site where the buffalo stayed. Hopefully now that they are being put in the Endangered Species Act, they will be able to repopulate and become as frequent as they used to be.
I think Obama's proposal is a wonderful idea. I hope it'll go through!
ReplyDeleteI agree, I don't think people understand how much a single species can effect an ecosystem
ReplyDeleteI agree, more and more animals are going onto this list because people hunt these animals down for their fur. This is so sad to me because I love wildlife animals and think they are so beautiful in their natural habitat, not on someone's floor as a rug.
ReplyDelete-Glenna Loughlin 5th
I definitely agree, invasive species can often wreck ecosystems if not treated correctly.Hopefully we can stop this form of cruelty.
ReplyDeleteI think this act is so great. I think people need to stop looking so near and thinking about the easy money or whatever they use the animals for and look at the long shot of how once they are gone, they can't bring them back
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