Essay On Endangered Species

Conservation, the protection of natural ecosystems, environment and wildlife, has been a major issue when people talk about the environment. There are many different kinds of conservation movements taking action nowadays, like clean water conservation, ecosystems conservation, or endangered species conservation. All three issues have been important and major issues after people started acknowledging how serious the problems are. The endangered species conservation movement is a worldwide phenomenon that covers an issue that will affect the Earth significantly. Not only the issue will affect the Earth, but it will also affect mankind. People, internationally, have been working hard to resolve the issue, and they are still working. As part of

Actually, many endangered species made the list because of humans. Humans poached, killed, hunted, and threatened many animals for decades and many animals made the endangered species list. Humans hunted animals for commercial reasons like fur and ivory. The valuable parts of animals were sold across countries to people. Since the demands were high, animals were led to endangerment, and if severe, extinction. Furthermore, plants have been jeopardized by people’s demand to use them as plants in their gardens and deforestation; people cut down trees and plants to sell them to other countries. Trade in endangered species have constantly happened from a long time ago in many countries. The commercial trade of wildlife worried many people, and it eventually led to the creation of CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and

Internationally, many countries have signed up to protect whales and stop whale hunting for commercial uses- the International Whaling Commision. Trade of whale meat is banned by CITES, too. The decision was made at the Conference of the Parties’ second meeting. (CITES) However, some governments did not agree. The government of Japan did not stop whale hunting, but they kept on conducting “scientific whaling”. According to GreenPeace, an environmental activist group, “Japan's research has been continually dismissed by the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) scientific committee as 'unnecessary', and was condemned in a resolution passed at the 2007 meeting, when a majority of countries voted for Japan to suspend indefinitely the lethal aspects of its research program.” These whaling for “scientific” purposes never got any actual scientific discoveries. Also, some whale hunters were caught smuggling and illegal trading whale meat. In May, 2008, a Japanese Whaling Factory Ship was caught smuggling and trading illegal whale meat. GreenPeace uncovered the illegal action and the incident brought a huge effect on many people. It spread knowledge about how situations with Japanese whaling actually is. Examples such as bear farms and whaling still exist today in several countries and they go against