Persuasive Essay: Dont Kill, Just Care

Don’t Kill, Just Care Animals have been a part of human’s daily life. Some are domesticated in our home or found in their natural habitat which is the wild, and others live in our house but we just simply ignore them as long as they do not give any disturbance. Every species of animal has different characteristics which they use to survive and adapt in their environment. According to the researchers, an estimate of 8.74million species of animals living in Earth, however not all of these species are discovered and the sad fact about this is that they may extinct before they have been discovered because of over-hunting, introduction of invasive species and destruction of their habitat. Today, groups of animal welfarist and animal rightist implements laws for the goodness of animals, although they have different principle, and this can help control the population of animals.

In the year 1662 in Mauritius Island, the dodo birds were all killed by the explorers from Portugal because of its meat. In addition to this, dodo birds are fearless flightless birds and do not have natural predators which makes them an easy prey to both human and invasive predators brought in their island. Quaggas were killed for their unique skin until no more quaggas were found. A number of animals also die due to deforestation, lost of habitat; the last Western Black Rhino’s death is examples of this, the extinction of their species were also caused by illegal poaching. The prey-predator food web is being disrupted and which causes an increase of competition for food and starvation of animals which leads to death. Hunting and using natural resources are okay but if done in excess can lead to extinction of animals. These events in the past must have taught us lessons and doing these wrong practices must be stopped if we do not want to see them in books or internet only because the disappearing of the animals in real life