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BarrStudent479- I believe poaching needs to be stopped. People don't realize that their "hunting" games or sports, can make a species endangered, the only thing that hunting should be used for is food in poorer countries. The are thousands of species on the Red List (endangered species list). Many that no one knows about. The solutions the society have come up with are good, but don't take action. The government needs to make laws that DO take action. We need to raise awareness about the poaching of endangered species. The more people that know, the easier it will be to stop it.

BarrStudent525 Blog and opinion-

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 * Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if certain animals become extinct? Many animals are becoming endangered and the government has to save them before they become extinct and lost forever. Some activities such as hunting and fishing contribute to endangering animals. According to the SIRS Endangered Species Timeline, on December 22, 2010 congress was forced to ban “Shark Finning” because it decreased the population of sharks by a lot. Also, one year later in 2011, 3,000 elephants were killed by poachers for their tusks. Other problems including endangered animals have been discovered too. “Traces of Endangered Animal Species ‘found in Traditional Chinese Medicines’… Many banned animal DNA was found in 15 samples of the products… The remedies contain vulnerable creatures such as Asiatic black bear and Saiga antelope… Scientist also found toxic plants and allergy triggers.” (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/896008-traces-of-endangered-animals-found-in-traditional-chinese-medicine). People shouldn’t put endangered animal species in medicines. And according to the article, some of the ingredients weren’t labeled and were toxic. If a person would have taken the wrong dosage of this medicine it could have been extremely harmful. In the SIRS article, GOP Lawmakers Target Endangered Species Act, the government isn’t doing the best they can. Only 2 dozen of the 2,000 foreign animal and plant species that the endangered species act protects have recovered enough to be removed from the list. Hastings, the chairman of the HNRC stated that they can do better. The endangered species act hasn’t been updated since 1988 and it takes an average of 42 years for a species to recover to a point that it is no longer endangered. The government should think of a faster and more efficient way of recovering animal species that are on the edge of extinction. However, other people think it is natural for animals to become extinct and there are some things we just can’t do. For example, natural selection is one way that animals become extinct. Natural selection shows how animals can evolve over a period of time. Also, according to the SIRS article Signs of Extinct Tortoises, “A giant tortoise species that was believed to be extinct for 150 years may be alive and well… 84 of the1600 tortoises had at least one purebred parent from the supposedly extinct species.” This means that the scientists could have been wrong about this species being extinct and it also means they could have been wrong about other animals too. The government isn’t that bad though, they are trying to find a way to recover animals more quickly. The ESA is already 99.9% effective in preventing extinction they just need to get that .1%. The society also has another solution; they repopulate the animals in zoos. Because they do that they teach kids about the animals in the world and maybe the kids would want to make a difference too. Therefore, I created my own solution; they should make certain zoos that are only for endangered animals and that are very large because to recover the species they need a good amount of space and they would also be able to help more than one species at a time since they are in a zoo. Many more people should think of ways to help animals recover because animals are very important to adults and children. **=====