The California Condor, the largest bird in North America, has been on the decline since the end of the ice age. The California Condors wingspan is as tall as an NBA basketball hoop, weighing about 20 pounds. However, they are susceptible to pollution, poaching, habitat loss, and over-hunting. The California Condor is a crucial part of the North American Western ecosystem, they are scavengers (earth's garbage collector) which means they eat animal carcasses. They are vital in stopping the spread of diseases, and they limit the amount of harmful substances from the environment. To start, pollution is a major factor in the decline of the California Condors. A major factor in the decline of the California Condors is pollution. This can be caused …show more content…
During the Ice Age, North America was inhabited by larger animals. These animals, like the mammoth and saber tooth tiger, are a lot bigger than modern day animals. These animals allowed the condors to have a more plentiful food source than they do now. They also have moved to the west of America due to people moving to America during the colonization of the Americas. Furthermore, the U. S. The National Park Service emphasizes that “The California condor was found all across North America during the last Ice Age where they scavenged the remains of large animals such as mammoths. When these large animals died out at the end of the Ice Age, the range of the California condor shrank to the Southwest and the Pacific coast where they were still able to find enough carrion to sustain themselves. Today, the California condor is critically endangered.” (“California Condor Fossil (U.S. National Park Service)”) The end of the ice and the expansion of humans across America, has resulted in the decline of the condor …show more content…
The end of lead ammunition and pollution is vital and a continuation of the captive breeding program that has been in place since 1982. If we use alternative ammunition and implement a more controlled hunting program, the condors will not be as threatened. We can also eliminate micro trash by picking it up when we see it. U. S. The Fish and Wildlife Service states that “Hunting, when done with non-lead ammunition, benefits condors and assists in their recovery by providing additional food sources (unrecovered animals and gut piles). Lead ammunition affects the health of wildlife and humans. Condors will remain an endangered species until the lead threat is addressed. Reducing and eventually eliminating the use of lead ammunition is an essential step in condor recovery.” (“California Condor Recovery Program | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service”). Unless we don’t make some changes, the condors will continue to be threatened. We have taken lead out of gasoline and paint, so ammunition should not be a problem. In conclusion, California condos have been on the decline for a very long time. But with our help, we can combat the extinction process by improving on already implemented standards. California Condors are North America's trash collectors, they eat animal carcasses. This prevents the spread of diseases to animals and people. California Condors are extremely important to
The causes of rising conservation include overhunting, recognizing its importance. These newfound awareness results in new policies that preserve everyone equally. When people started to see the decline of wildlife animals including bison and many colorful birds it caused a rise in conservation. A cause of the extermination of bison is “From the Great Slave Lake to the Rio Grande, the home of the buffalo was everywhere overrun by the man with a gun; and, as had ever been the case, the wild creatures were gradually swept away, the largest and most conspicuous forms being the first to go. ”(Doc.2)
The Bald Eagle is at the top of it’s food chain as a tertiary consumer. It
The condor will eat anything from the remains of a deer, to a large marine mammal like a whale. “California condors can soar on warm thermal updrafts for hours, reaching speeds of more than 55 miles per hour and altitudes of 15,000 feet with flights up to 150 miles. Condors hold their wings in a horizontal position and fly very steadily.” (Calvin & Rosanna Hamilton, 2005-2008) California condors mature and reproduce slowly.
National Parks are the cornerstone of every country because it preserves the rich cultural and natural resources of a nation, such as Yellowstone in the United States of America. Yellowstone National Park is the World’s First National Park which brings millions of attraction each year, it is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combine and have over a thousand species of plants and animal (Yellowstone Media). However, a very important type of species has been missing in Yellowstone National Park for a very long time. Wolves, which got reintroduce back into Yellowstone National Park, should stay there because without them the ecosystem would be out of balance.
Man is responsible for the extinction of the North American megafauna (Donlan 2005, Rubenstein et al. 2006). Since our ancestors are responsible for the extinction, it’s our duty to fix what our ancestors have destroyed (Donlan 2005). Moreover, according to Donlan (2005) most megafauna species in Africa and Asia are endangered or under threat. Hence, relocating them to North American is a best way of conserving them because the country carries “Global conservation implications” and contrary to that Africa and Asia practice poor conservation strategies (Donlan 2005). He further argues that N...
Many hundreds of years ago wolves roamed the entire North American continent with no barriers and very few predators. As settlers moved into the United States, wolves became more and more scarce in the wild of America. As the wilderness areas of the United States declined, so did the population of the wolf, until there were only a few spots in the wild where wolves could still be found.
As a result, their habitat is being destroyed, leaving them with no place to live and to nest their young. They are also being disturbed by human activities near their habitat.
California condor, the largest flying bird in North America area, is now defined as endangered species. The term endangered species refer to species threatened with extinction by changes in its environment. The condor as scavengers, no matter how dangerous they may sound, are the essential member of our ecosystem (Verner, 1978).
In 1986, it was realized that drastic measures would be needed if humans were going to save the California condor form extinction. With only three males remaining in the wild and 22 others left in captivity, an aggressive approach was necessary to save these majestic birds.
feeds and nourishes them up to be a scourge to the whole land (North California state
...ghteen hundreds there were seventy five million bison in North America. When the nomads and euroamericans started hunting them for their hides and using them for the main form of trade, along with other natural factors there population took a devastating turn for the worst. “By the eighteen eighties only a couple hundred bison had found refuge from commercial hunters, drought, and the destruction of their grazing land by farmers and livestock in Yellowstone national park” (Isenberg 164). Yellowstone was made into a safe haven for the bison and the United States government did allow the railroad to cross throw Yellowstone because it would affect the safety of the bison. People started to capture the bison and domesticated them to rebuild the population. Bison became a symbol of the American west, which is why the euroamericans started to regenerate there population.
Thousands of years ago, hunting may have been the cause of the extinction of the North American large land mammals. “Moving up into the 1940’s and 50’s some of today’s most prominent game animals were almost non-existent.”(Kerry G) Over-hunting will directly cause the decline in the particular animal’s species. This will effect everything around it, for example ...
of species due to a variety of causes. Included is out competition, depletion of resources
The. In 1995, the number had been reduced to around 64 million. Within 20 years, in short, the duck population was reduced by almost one third, showing. the drastic toll hunting is taking on our wildlife. If we assume that other species have been reduced in number at approximately the same rate in recent years, then what are the larger implications for our ecological balance?
Because the CO2 levels are rising, the ice caps are melting and many more animals can become extinct. When pangea started splitting, there was a lot of volcanic activity, which cause the death of many dinosaurs. A meteor also hit earth and the mass extinction of many land and marine animals happened. There have been five mass extinctions in Earth’s history. The worst one wiped out ninety-six percent of marine life and seventy percent of land organisms. This took millions of years to recover.