Tigers:
Tigers are categorized as Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) and listed under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) prohibiting international commercial trade.
There are more Tiger farms breeding captive tigers for trade than tigers in the wild. Tigers a bred for their body parts, fur and even bones. Both captive and wild caught tigers fall under the same regulations, but haven't been effective on stopping the illegal farms and trade.
Puertorican Parrot
The dramatic reduction in the number of parrots is mainly due to deforestation for agriculture, which removed large areas of mature forest. In 1940 the only Puerto Rican parrot population was in the Sierra de Luquillo, popularly known as "El Yunque", which is a rainforest on the east side of Puerto Rico. Among the causes of the dramatic reduction include habitat destruction, poaching and competition for cavities with species like the brown thrasher. Natural disasters also have a big impact on the already unstable population.
Puerto Rican Parrot distintive features include: White eye ring, blue underwing, red crown and white beak. Credit: USFWS
http://www.fws.gov/southeast/prparrot/Photographs.html
http://www.fws.gov/southeast/prparrot/Photographs.html
Sperm whales
The number of sperm whales throughout the world is unknown, but is thought to be in the hundreds of thousands. The conservation outlook is brighter than for many other whales. Historically, Japan has taken ten sperm whales a year, and until 2006 tens of these whales were hunted off Indonesia. They are protected practically worldwide, and commercial whaling has ceased. Fishermen do not target the creatures that sperm whales eat. However, long line fishing operations in the Gulf of Alaska have complained about sperm whales stealing fish from their lines.
Entanglement in fishing nets and collisions with ships represent the greatest threats to the sperm whale population currently. Other current threats include ingestion of marine debris, ocean noise, and chemical pollution. The IUCN regards the sperm whale as being "vulnerable". The U.S. lists them as endangered.
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These are really beautifull animals and they are just too few of them left. Nobody has that in mind, nobody sees that they can't do anything to defend themselves, that we have to protect them and not hurt them. They are in extinction because of us, because we think that we are the only ones that feel and we don't realiza that they feel,think and live too.
ReplyDeleteEven when some countries deny the hunting of whales, it still takes place and we have to be advocates and expose those who hunt whales simply for profit. We live in a different time and this shouldn't be happening.
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