Animal Pollution Essay

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The Animal world consists of two main habitats, the wild one and the marine one, in which they get effected by several kinds of pollution.
Pollution is one of the main ways where humans have caused radical changes on wildlife habitats.
Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Light Pollution, Pesticides, Acid Rain, Metal, Sedimentation, Oil Pollution, Marine Debris.
The only difference between these kinds of pollution is how much they impact each kind of habitat, the level of effect differs from a place to another, but it still has an impact, and that is what matters.
For example, noise pollution effects wild animals on a higher scale than it does on marine life.
Continuing noise pollution from various vehicles such as: cars, snowmobiles, motorcycles, …show more content…

Light pollution is a unique type indeed, also known as "sky glow" is a brightening of the sky at night caused by artificial lights being scattered by aerosol particles such as water droplets and dust in the air.
Negative impacts on wildlife: Some of the harmful effects of light pollution on plants and animals have been recognized by scientists.

Light pollution at night distracts bats, insects, and migratory birds causing them to get lost and disorientated.
Metals are another kind of contamination that have been reported to affect the circulatory, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems of animals. And organs such as the kidney, liver, and brain are targeted. It can affect entire populations as it can cause changes in birth, growth, and death rates.

To sum up, pollution doesn’t end on these types only, but eventually all types of pollutants effect animals as well as humans, and man-made activities are contaminating the world's ecosystems and disrupting the lives of animals.

Slight adjustments in your daily life actions can make a huge difference,

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