Extinction of species and conservation of biodiversity

There are 100 million different species known on earth but because of big ecological issues, between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year. What are those issues? How to help conservation of biodiversity? And how to stop this rate of extinction from going that fast?

According to dictionary.com, biodiversity is the diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. It is why extinction of species is closely related to the conservation of biodiversity, because of extinction, earth’s biodiversity is decreasing each year a little more. Conservation of biodiversity is very important to all of species on this planet, including us. Take for example the rain forest, according too, Saving the Rain Forest (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/preserve.html) the Rainforest is disappearing at a rate of 6000 acres per hours, or the size of 4000 football fields. All these animals are being killed or chassed away from their habitat, all of those trees are being destroyed and cut in pieces to make paper or magazines, but if we continue like that, our little kids won’t be able to breath because they are the lungs of the planet. But they are many other causes of extinction as Global Warming, Water pollution, Mining…ext. One of the most famous specie that is becoming extinct  are polar bears, because of global warming the ice caps are melting and they are dying .  Many dolphin are diying thinking that plastic bags in the sea are jellyfishes, and soil, the source of thousands of plants is being destroyed because of mining.  After all of those big catastrophes, when there will be only be few animals of this specie, there will normally be laws to protect those animals from hunters, sadly most of the times there will be people not willing to listen to those rules, those people who are hunting illegally are called poachers. Of course they are some big accidents that couldn’t be controlled and that kill thousands of living things as plant and animals. Those technical accidents as oil spills, nuclear power plant disasters… ext can sometimes be caused or made worst by natural disasters as tsunamis, earth cracks, hurricanes. The problem with those is that they take a very long time to be healed. Take as an example Chernobyl, the recent Japanese tsunami ,the famous Exxon Valdez oil spill and the golf coast oil spill.

Even if going protesting in the streets or in the rain forest is not an option, they are always some ways to help in the everyday life. It is always possible to recycle , pick up trash and throw it in a trashcan, save light by switching it off when it is not needed, save water by taking showers and not baths and not wasting it in any way.  To try to stop polluting air, always try walking, using bikes, skateboards and even public transport instead of private cars. And most importantly, if seen, always report a poacher or an illegal animal trader to the police. All of those everyday small action could make a real difference.