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Polar bears — 10 animals on the verge of extinction
10 animals on the verge of extinction
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kajal
Nov 03 2011 at 10:50 AM
The Tasmanian devil, the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial, was hunted to extinction on the Australian mainland. Now it could be wiped out in Tasmania too. The big threat is the fatal devil facial-tumour disease. Remarkably, and unlike other malignancies, the tumours in every affected animal carry identical chromosome rearrangements and the tumour seems to be passed on by contact through biting, consistent with transmission by an allografting process. Meanwhile, conservation efforts focus on
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removing sick animals from wild populations....
firetruck
Apr 25 2011 at 1:57 PM
that way it will take less tim eto find what we need and then i wont waste any time waiting for the stupid thing to load and all that stuff i mean really come on get with the program!!!
samantha
Apr 25 2011 at 1:54 PM
there ice is melting and that leaves them with barly any place to hunt or find food so they try swimming to another place to get food and they ether dround or dont find any food and with ther eice sheets melting they are shrinking in amount bye alot
someone
Oct 20 2010 at 2:10 AM
You know what- if we don't stop being asses, where going to end the world. Yeh, not in 2012, but soon enough, the world will end if people don't start caring about the environment! We're all gonna die, because some ass doesn't care about the environment! I hope u r all happy with your self, you ignorant litterers! I'm not saying everyone's an ass, because SOME people care about the environment! If u care about our Earth and animals good on 'ya!
Someone
Oct 20 2010 at 2:05 AM
It's all becoz of us that animals are going extinct! open ur eyes and SEE! It's all coz stupid dush faces keep littering and being idiots! I feel sorry for the animals going extinct! It's all coz of idiots littering, and, frankly, we aren't the ones that are copping the damage it's THEM- the INNOCENT ANIMALS!!!! So stop being idiots and walk an extra 5 steps to the bin!
javier123454321
Feb 02 2010 at 3:44 AM
All these random facts you find on the internet are not making you any smarter, they're eating off your brain while bombarding you with advertisements you will associate with random stimuli. So next time you're in the crapper and hear someone with that new "call me mr. bedrock" song as their ringtone and you feel like shipping something through fedex, don't blame Obama, it was the illuminati.
Big Yello Taxi
Jan 20 2010 at 2:10 PM
The real importance has to be human population control. How will any wild animal survive when the Earth is exploding in people. Consider this: India currently has 1.25 Billion People with a daily population increase of 240,000. They will want products that create pollution. What will there carbon footprint be.??
Guest
Mar 08 2012 at 12:52 AM
Angelita...Polar Bears are not growing in population...People are killing these animals for sport in Canada...Canada is the only country that allows this butchering...people and habitat are killing off these beautiful animals...just think when the mother dies her cubs will too...
Me
Jan 14 2010 at 11:41 AM
Global warming is a fact, its our fault. Without the involvment of the human race it would've happened gradually and over 10s of thousands of years, but we just sped it up x100
Ме
Jan 14 2010 at 11:37 AM
Yes extinction is a natural element of life, but still, we are talking about forcing into extinction. If we force animals into extinction then we may accidentally disrupt the balance of nature, and then nothing will help. Mankind is trying to survive by any means, that is in our genes, but also in our genes is the ability to think, and make brighter decisions...
Jommeke
Dec 19 2009 at 10:41 AM
This list only contains the big well known animals, but there are also many more small and very important creatures on the verge of extinction. And although it might look as if the human race is the only one who's doing well, what will be left in the end are the Salmonella's, HIV's and Plasmodiums of this world. Good luck with such neighbours.
Kyle
Dec 14 2009 at 7:45 AM
Aside from the many obvious and not-so-obvious causes for life to become extinct that are not their fault, it is also completely natural!! More species than we could imagine have appeared and gone extinct in the worlds history. It is natural, it is evolution, it is fact.
I imagine the one good reason to protect a species that is otherwise naturally doomed for extinction (the panda bear, for example) is so future generations can enjoy them. But how much resources are we really putting into saving
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these animal that we should be putting into better the human race?
Regardless of how unnaturally we are destroying these species ourselves, it is absolutely 100% natural by the laws of evolution for one species to have dominance over another. For example, if dinosaurs had been left to flourish, they may have wiped out a majority of the mammals. Who knows, at least we're here. Lets keep it that way.
Dec 25 2009 at 3:14 PM
polar bears are not dieing naturally it is because of human impact that the temperature of the earth is increasing. this isn't really nature doing what it normally does
Ian Seth Floch
Dec 02 2009 at 12:44 PM
Do any of you have kids?I do and i have to see the glass half full, for them.Mankind is the most destructive hateful mean race their is and at the same time the most noble caring and giving too.We share every thing money, time,we even rip out our organs for one another,often.Their is Good things going on every day. Turn off the PC and TV and look around you'll see.Some times forces seem to big to change and they are but the thing is they dont have to.Only you do besides thats the only thing we can
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control any way.Its like a fractal image you change the smallest most magnified part and the rest follow suit.Be positive!And live in love!
Dec 01 2009 at 12:16 PM
Get rid of 90 percent of the humans on this planet and it will heal itself
Caroline
Nov 15 2009 at 4:55 PM
I can sympathize with Tim. I often feel like there is just no hope, this horror just keeps keeping on. One day I hear that we saved one animal and the next I hear about the deaths of hundreds more. It's insanity and it is beyond my understanding but I promise to fight for them. I will fight until the world winks out for me. That is all I can do... no matter how useless it sometimes seems.
Debbie Zarr
Nov 02 2009 at 9:11 PM
The extinction of species will have a ripple effect on the human race. We HAVE TO preserve and protect wildlife!
david
Nov 02 2009 at 4:13 PM
We must begin to think on a global scale. The world of money exists today like a pyramid. The ones with the money and power sit at the top of the pyramid, and as the pyramid goes lower people have less and less power as the pyramid heads downward along with quality of life.
In the USA its republican against democrat. Conservative against liberal. As long as we remain ignorant to their manipulations through their money, and its funneled down so the true source cannot be found and we cannot stand
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together to fight this abuse.
This goes on all over the world. sheite, muslem, christian, Jew, etc. The whole idea is to keep us busy fighting each other while the enviourment slowly gets distroyed. Human rights are violated everywhere.
The melting of the polar ice caps is viewed by these people as new shipping lanes at the cost of many different species of life. they are seen as expendible, unneeded.
this is all about money and these people finance wars, so killing someone they see as a threat....to keep the money thing going which gives them their power would mean nothing to them. Do you think we would have gone into Iraq for tomatos and carrots?
the different peoples of the earth at this point in our history need to PUT OUR DIFFERENCES AWAY and come together to stop them. Just don't cooperate. Realize there is money behind what ever is going on. It is the only way we can save ourselves, and if we are able to dismantle this pyramid and we must never allow this to happen again.
I live in the worst but most moderized country in the world. We as a people must set aside our political differences, religon, whatever and figure out how to come together as a people to make right our wrongs done to each other because of money and greed, and stop it.
the human race can be free, and survive, as well as this earth we inhabit. For myself i just wouldn't cooperate.
david
Theresa Hobmeier
Nov 02 2009 at 3:33 PM
No one should kill the animals as the Congress said it was okay to have a rifle in the Natl Parks & I say it is wrong. My uncle, Al Rubano, worked in the Bronx Zoo & we as children loved the animals. Stop the killings.
Zach Van Draden
Nov 01 2009 at 2:54 PM
Capitalism, Communism, Globalism, Tribalism, every element of mankind are the cause(s), we all know that. But, living in the United States and being one part of the problem myself do KNOW that Capitalism is an IMMENSE NEGATIVE when talking about LIFE on Earth, that even takes we human's into account our OWN future does not look to good if we continue to ALLOW Capitalism, Big Business, and the forces of Consumerism to remain in control of decision making in the U.S. and around the World. Packaging
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and plastics of every kind are piling up in landfills that never biodegrade, aluminum, chemicals, batteries, and aerosol's also contribute to the problem.
Deforestation, global warming (climate change for hard heads)and sea level rise are not only drowning Polar Bears, but are also killing people. Right now, I hate the human race, and although there is Greenpeace, and the Whaler Pirates (whose name I cannot currently recall) in the Southern Ocean, but for all of their efforts the battle is still being lost by a wide margin. If the Polar Bear is lost, an animal EVEN the Capitalist Pig loves, then nothing else has a chance, the Black Rhino, The African Elephant, The Lion all are next on the list for EXTINCTION... A group of People with DEEP DEEP pockets has to lead the fight, someone of Bill Gates tremendous wealth has to come forward to lead the way if there is to be a chance to save the Animals, and mankind...
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