We Need to Protect Endangered Animals

   The issue of Endangered Animals is important because Healthy ecosystems depend on animal species as their foundations and ‘’The American tourism industry is dependent on plant and animal species and their ecosystems for their multi-billion dollar, job-intensive industry’’(Endangered Species Coalition). This issue is debatable because while some believe that once the animals that are endangered go extinct will affect the human population negatively, others believe that it does not matter at all if endangered animals die off for good.,My opinion on the issue is that endangered animals are indeed worth saving and protecting.

I strongly believe this because when we protect endangered animals, we also protect our ecosystems that underlie our economies and welfare.

‘‘It is important to realize that endangered animals have many of the same feelings we do and share the same neural structures that are important in processing emotions. Animals experience contagious joy and the deepest of grief, they get hurt and suffer, and they take care of one another. They have a point of view on what happens to them, their families, and their friends. Nonetheless, endangered animal lives are not protected in deference to human interests’’(Marc Bekoff Ph.D.). Experts who have studied this issue have found that the ‘‘key to the survival of our endangered species is ensuring that they are reintroduced to protected areas where they can safely roam and strengthen in number. And to monitor the animals on a daily basis to assess how the animals are doing’’(Wildlife ACT).

Many experts have weighed in on the subject including Jan Vertefeuille (Senior Director, Advocacy, Wildlife Conservation), who said “When poaching of elephants and rhinos hit crisis levels in Africa a few years ago, we needed to get the issue in front of world leaders who could mobilize resources to tackle the crisis. By reframing the issue to one of global security and organized crime, we took an issue that had been relegated to underfunded and poorly equipped park rangers and put it on the agenda of the UN and the White House.” This quote connects to the fact that when animals who were continually hunted to the point of becoming endangered needed protection. One way to get help for them is to do what Jan Vertefeuille did and make the UN and the White House aware of the problem.

A further example that endangered animals are indeed worth saving and protecting is that Healthy ecosystems rely upon plant and animal species as their support. When a species becomes endangered, it is a clear indicator that the ecosystem is slowly breaking apart. Each species that is lost, triggers the loss of another within its ecosystem.‘‘We as Humans depend on healthy ecosystems to purify our environment, without healthy forests, grasslands, rivers, oceans and other ecosystems, we will not have clean air, water, or land. If we allow our environment to become contaminated, we risk our own health.’’(Endangered Species Coalition)

Some people believe that we don’t need to protect endangered animals because the ‘‘impulse to conserve for conservation's sake has taken on an unthinking, unsupported, unnecessary urgency. Extinction is the engine of evolution, the mechanism by which natural selection prunes the poorly adapted and allows the hardiest to flourish. Species constantly go extinct, and every species that is alive today will one day follow suit. There is no such thing as an 'endangered species,' except for all species.’’(R. Alexander Pyron) This is faulty reasoning because in order for our ecosystems to stay healthy, it needs to continue to rely upon plant and animal species as their support.

Another common reason people believe that we don’t need to save endangered species is because ‘‘the impulse to conserve for conservation's sake has taken on an unthinking, unsupported, unnecessary urgency. Extinction is the engine of evolution, the mechanism by which natural selection prunes the poorly adapted and allows the hardiest to flourish. Species constantly go extinct, and every species that is alive today will one day follow suit’’ (R. Alexander Pyron). In this case, they are wrong because they are not considering that we base our cities, towns, urban, suburban and rural communities on foundations that involve and and require a multitude of diverse animals to help balance the phenomena of the physical world collectively, known as nature itself .

The reasons to believe that we don’t need to protect endangered animals have been discounted again and again by Professors of Biology ,Wildlife Rehabilitators, Animal Welfare Advocates, Zoologists, and Conservation Scientists. In my opinion, The evidence in support of that endangered animals are indeed worth saving and protecting is stronger than the refutations of naysayers. 

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