Wildlife Conservation

            Wildlife conservation an act of saving the endangered or threaten species has become a huge asset in order to save the beauty and the value of our wildlife. Though many hunters and other people that are over using our natural resources plentiful as they want, the wildlife population and aesthetic value is diminishing. The Federal government or the Department of Natural Resources otherwise known as “DNR” have passed certain law to tell the people what they can and can’t do to the wildlife to be able to conserve it. Many factors that contribute to the set of conservation laws are overhunting/ overfishing, loss of habitat for the animals, and “Pesticides/ Toxic Chemicals”.

            “Overhunting/ Overfishing” or known as “Poaching” is a big reason why conservation laws have been set. Poaching is when game animals such as deer, bears, fish, or any other game animals have been hunted or fished for illegally. Poachers often hunting or fish out of season and take large amounts of the prized animal at a time going over the limit set which causes a drastic drop in the animal’s population. For an example poachers will do anything to get the animal that they are after such as deer they will spot light them so they can get what they are after, they will illegally bait ducks and turkeys with food plots, and go out of season just to get what they are hunting for. And there have been certain laws that have been put into action to help to stop the poachers such as the endangered species act, the migratory bird treaty, and the wild bird conservation act. The main act that has been put together for poachers is the endangered species act. Because it stops poachers from being able to import of animals that are illegal at the time either they are traded out of the season or the poacher went past its limit of animals he could kill that day or in that season. Another thing that the law has put into place is that poachers can’t use certain animal species for foreign commerce. Even though that poachers contribute to the main cause that wildlife conservation has been put in place loss of habitat is another reason that conservation laws have been put into action.

            Loss of habitat is destruction of the animal’s area that surrounds the certain species and they can no longer survive in that particular area. A major reason why it hurts the wildlife so bad is because the animal will not have any shelter, food, water, or the right amount of nutrients it needs to survive causing them to go off into unknown or rural areas. Major causes of their loss of habitat are logging, global warming, and pollution. Logging for example cuts all the animals’ surroundings down to where they will not have a place to live or their vegetation to keep and maintain to be a healthy animal causing the animal to die of starvation or diseases they have gotten from being away from their natural habitats. Global warming causes loss of habitat because it affects the animal’s niche so they will not be able to adapt to colder or harsh weather if they are not used to it causing their vegetation to die off and leaving them off to die. Pollution is killing off most of the animals because people riding down the road want to throw their trash out causing the trash get in to the animal’s environment which the animals eat it and makes them die. Loss of habitat is mainly people as a whole because the human population is destroying the animal’s habit so they will not be able to survive.

            One thing that most people that should be concerned with about is when pesticides and toxic chemical come into contact with certain animals and plants that we eat every day causing people to get sick and not knowing why. Toxic Chemicals can come into contact with animals when people that dump waste such as different oils, nuclear waste, and different pesticides into to the wildlife environment causing the animal to become sick. Many people eat animals causing people to get sick thanks to the others who dumped the waste in to the animal’s environment. For example, a company is demanded by their boss to go and dump different waste that is very harmful to wildlife in their environment. The wildlife comes and eats their vegetation as normal gets sick because of somebody’s mistake which make the certain species dies off making the animal to either become endangered or even instinct.

            From poachers, loss of habitat, and pesticides/toxic chemicals, people are the main cause that the wildlife population is diminishing very rapidly. Without wildlife conservation laws put into place many of the animals would be instinct.

http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/

http://environment.knoji.com/six-major-reasons-why-wildlife-should-be-conserved/