What humans can do to help animals

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Humans use animals for food, work and companionship

What can humans do to help wild animals?

Make your cat an indoor cat

Preserve wildlife habitat
Provide water
Be sparing in your use of pesticides and other chemicals
Plant a wildlife garden
Feed bird the right way
Become A Wildlife Rehabilitator
Provide nesting sites and shelters
Detect and disarm wildlife traps
Donate, volunteer and vote

What animals kill humans?

Leopards
Horse
Cow
Ant
Bee
Lions
Jellyfish
Tigers
Deer
Domestic dogs
Cape buffalo
Elephant
Crocodiles
Hippo
Scorpions
Snakes
Tsetse flies
Mosquitoes
People

Dr. Jane Goodall

Born on April 3 1934

 She has not died yet

Today she is inspiring action on behalf of endangered species, particularly

chimpanzees and encouraging people to do their part. She set sail to Africa in
1957 at the age of 23. She arrived in 1960. She watched the chimpanzees and
David Greybeard a chimpanzee he feed on a baby bush pig. The chimpanzees
use tools to help them (leafs as spoons). So she is famous!!

National Geographic

They film animals in the wild to see what they do in the wild.

Coyote
Coyotes live in America. Their population are likely at an all-time high. They eat
almost anything. They can run at 64 kilometres per hour. In spring they can give
birth to 3-12 pups. They are smaller than wolves. They live up to 14 years.

Researcher G.A.M
How to save animals

We can save animals by trying to stop pollution, deforestation, commercial

overexploitation and poaching. Animals might be revolting or dangerous but that

does not mean we are allowed to kill them all of them play good and important
roles on the Earth and nature. Some roles at first wont show until later. We
almost have got no idea of all the repercussions involved in the disappearance of
a single animal population in a corner of a forest, swamp or river. If we lose too
many animals at the base the food chain will break. A killer whale will affect the
diet of a bald eagle in Alaska. See one animal can affect another animal on a
different element/place.
What can YOU do?
Every one of us is part of this world, and so what we do--or dont do--has an
impact on the world around us. We can all do small things, and ask our parents
to do small things, too. The more people there are who do small things every
day, well, they all start adding up to big things! Here are some things you can
do:

Dont dump! Do not pour paint or chemicals into the ground or into the gutter. If
you do, it will get into the water we drink, and into the lakes and oceans where it
may harm the animals that live in the water and on the shore.

Let worms eat your garbage! Americans throw out lots of food scraps and
leftovers. If you cant eat it all, let the worms finish it for you by making a
compost heap. Use the compost to feed your plants instead of chemical
fertilizers.

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle! Try to reduce the amount of garbage you throw away.

Recycle paper, cardboard, cans, bottles and plastic. Buy things that dont come
packed in lots of cardboard and plastic; buy bigger quantities--its cheaper and
theres less packaging. Buy products that come in containers and packages
made of recycled materials.

Got an A+ on your homework? Great! Now use the back of the paper to make
notes for your next assignment! When youve used both sides of the paper, you
can recycle into your compost heap or rip it up to make mulch for the garden.

Make your voice heard! Find the name of your mayor, governor, senator,
representative and the President of the United States in your telephone book.
Write one letter a month to one of them and tell them what you think about
something that affects the environment in your neighbourhood, town, county,
state or the country. You can even send email to the President, Vice President
and many senators and congressional representatives. You can find their email
addresses pointing your web browser to

http://www.anapsid.org/animalshumans.html Deforestation/Forest
Degradation
Deforestation is the action to clear the Earths forests in a big scale by human for
their needs.
There are lots of negative impacts but these are the main ones:

Firstly, this is a very affective impact on the wild lives that lives in forests
and some of other animals because animals that live in the forest will lose
their habitats and will be forced to migrate to another habitat that has
been taken so will be lots of problems like: territorial conflicts, lack of food
available, migration disturbanceetc. There are also some specific

animals that can only survive in a specific habitat

Secondly, forest degradation can injure animals, plants or maybe
human(s) or cause global warming due to forest fires (usually cause by

accidents of drought/lightings.
Next, animals or humans that live near a degraded area may catch

diseases or pests.
Then, after the trees are removed, soil erosion occurs and the rain will
flush the nutrients in the soil, causing the soil to die.

Finally, trees play an important role in nature so we need to be careful and

protect them.
Causes:
Logging(cutting wood for money/space) 14%
Mining (trees must be chopped down to build mines.)15%
Farming 36%
Oil and Gas (cut down trees to extract energy underground and

build roads to access sites) 20%

Civil wars/city expand 15%
And more

Facts:

Brazil has the highest annual rate of deforestation today.

Atlantic coast of Brazil has lost 90-95% of its rainforest.

Central America has 50% of its rainforests.
South America has 70% of its rainforests.
The Philippines have lost 90% of its rainforests!
Madagascar has lost 95% of its rainforests!
El Salvador has lost 70-85% of its rainforest due to heavy bombing during the civil war 19841985.

Sumatra has 15% of its rainforests left.

Only 6% of Central Africa's forests are protected by law.

Global rates of rainforest deforestation:

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Two US football fields (1 hectare) per second

Bigger than New York City (86,000 hectare) per day
An area larger than Poland (31 million hectare) per year
As this rate 50,000 species extinct each year(137 species each day)

How to help:
Always use both sides of paper when writing, drawing, photo-copying, faxing, etc.
Recycle paper, cans, glass, and plastic.
Read the newspaper on-line.
Buy paper products made from recycled paper: notebook paper, paper towels, toilet paper,

books, etc.
Use pencils until they are stubs! Think of pencils as gold (you'll never lose them if you do).
Encourage your parents, relatives, and friends to buy furniture and wood that is Certified.
That means the wood was legally cut-down.

 If you buy a product and you notice they use wood chips to package it, write to the company
and suggest they use another packaging material.
Trees get cut down for cattle to graze. Instead of eating meat, think of eating other sources of
protein such as fish, soy, beans, whole-wheat, and nuts.
Buy organic fruits and vegetables. That means there are no insecticides or pesticides
(poisonous chemicals) sprayed on the food. If these chemicals kill insects and pests that try
and eat the vegetables, think about how harmful they can be to you and the environment.
Instead of buying gold or diamonds, which are mined and cause environmental damage,
consider jewelry that is made from materials that are not mined...such as glass.
Encourage your parents, relatives, and friends to drive fuel efficient cars that get good gas
mileage. Hybrid and bio-diesel cars get great mileage and use less or no gasoline.
Even better, whenever possible, walk, bike, carpool or use mass transit (bus or train).
Save electricity by turning off lights, t.v., radio, computer, etc when you are not using them.
Save water by NOT taking baths; instead take quick showers (turning off the water while you
soap up) and then turning it back on to rinse quickly.
While washing your hands and brushing your teeth, turn off the water. You'll save gallons if
you do.
When washing the dishes or your parent's car, turn off the water while washing it with soap. Rinse
quickly after washing. Pollution
Almost everywhere are filled with pollution causing all living creatures to die and
sick. There are 4 main type of pollution: Air pollution, Water pollution, Noise
pollution and radiation pollution. Most pollution are caused by human and nature
but mostly human. Pollution has been a very big problem since human created
machines.
Types of pollution:
Air pollution: are pollutions that are related to air.
Water pollution; are pollutions that are related to water.
Noise Pollution: are pollutions that are related to noise.
Radiation Pollution: are pollutions that are related to radiation.
The effects of pollutions are:

Acid rain by when the clouds starts to rain, the drops of water fall and
hit all the toxics in the air it will form acid then land. Acid rain is very
harmful because it will damage the water which sea animals live in and
the trees will suck in all the toxics and die, this also can harm human
not physically but will affect their health.
Global on warming because the all chemicals in the atmosphere will
make an Ozone hole and cause Antarctica/North Pole and icebergs to
melt and that will take away habitats from animals that lives there.
Also Ozone holes can allow excessive ultra violet radiation on to earth
causing all living creatures to disease or deaths.
Ocean litter because people are littering plastics and it will end up in
the ocean. Also the containers that falls from ships, illegal toxic dumps
and oil spills, land mines and bombs causing the animals under water
to eat it but cant digest
Air/water pollution can cause lots of different disease to human and
animals like; cancer, heart diseases, headaches, dizzy, pink eye,
damage to DNA or maybe deaths.
Noise pollution make wild lives confused and annoyed from all the
noises from human activities.

Facts:
Fact 1: Pollution is one of the biggest killers, affecting more than 100 million worldwide.
Fact 2: More than 1 billion people worldwide dont have access to safe drinking water.
Fact 3: 5000 people die every day as a result of drinking unclean water.
Fact 4: The garbage dumped in the ocean every year is roughly around 14 billion pounds.
Plastic is the major constituent.
Fact 5: Pollution kills more than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals every year.

Fact 6: People who live in high-density air pollution area, have 20% higher risk of dying
from lung cancer, than people living in less polluted areas.
Fact 7: Approximately 46% of the lakes in America are extremely polluted and hence risky
for swimming, fishing and aquatic life.
Fact 8: In the great Smog Disaster, that happened in London in he year 1952,
approximately four thousand people died in a few days due to the high concentrations of
pollution.
Fact 9: United States produces 30% of the worlds waste and uses 25 % of the worlds
natural resources
Fact 10: The Mississippi River dumps 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution in the Gulf
of Mexico every year.
Fact 11: Every year around one trillion gallons of untreated sewage and industrial waste is
dumped in the U.S water.
Fact 12: Children contribute to only 10% of the worlds pollution but are prone to 40% of
global disease.
Fact 13: More than 3 million kids under the age of 5 years die every year due to
environmental factors like pollution.
Fact 14: Composting and recycling alone have prevented 85 million tons of waste to be
dumped in 2010.
Fact 15: China is the worlds largest producer of carbon dioxide. United States is number 2.
Fact 16: Almost 80% of urban waste in India is dumped in the river Ganges.
Fact 17: Noise pollution is the most neglected type of pollution.
Fact 18: The amount of money invested in nuclear test could be used to finance 8,000
hand pumps, giving villages across third world access to clean water.
Fact 19: Acidification of the ocean is the worst type of pollution. Oceans are becoming
more acidic rue to green house emissions from fossil fuel.

Fact 20: Livestock waste majorly contributes to soil pollution. During monsoon, water
runs over the fields carrying dangerous bacteria from the livestock into the streams.
Fact 21: More than 100 pesticides in any medium- air, water or soil can cause birth defects,
gene mutation and cancer.
Fact 22: There are more around 73 various kinds of pesticides in the groundwater, which is
used as drinking water.
Fact 23: There are more than 500 million cars in the world and by 2030 the number will rise
to 1 billion. This means pollution level will be more than double.
Fact 24: Major oil spill like those in the Gulf of Mexico, is the the worst type of pollution
due to consistent oil spills in the water body which spreads everywhere else.
Fact 25: House owners use chemicals that are 10 times more toxic per acre, than the
amount used by the farmers.

Fact 26: Around 1000 children die in India every year due to diseases caused from
the polluted water.
Fact 27: In India, the Ganges water is gradually becoming septic, especially due to
dumping of half burnt dead bodies and enshrouded babies.
Fact 28: 88% of the children in Guiyu, China suffer from various respiratory diseases as the
area they live in is a huge e-waste site.
Fact 29: Antarctica is the cleanest place on Earth protected by anti-pollution laws.
Fact 30: Scientific research has proven that carbon dioxide emissions are lowering the pH
of the ocean and are acidifying them even more.
Fact 31: A single car generates half a ton of CO2 and a NASA space shuttle releases 28
tons of C02.
Fact 32: Americans buy more than 29 million bottles of water every year. Only 13% of
these bottles are recycled every year.

Fact 33: Tsunami in Japan during the year 2011, has created a debris of 70 miles, which
consists of cars, plastic, dead bodies and radioactive waste.
Fact 34: Cadmium is a dangerous pollutant that kills fetus sex organ cells. It is wide spread
in many things that we eat and drink.
Fact 35: It takes only 5 days for a jet stream in Chine to carry the air pollution to the United
States.
Fact 36: Pollution in China can change the weather in United States.
Fact 37: World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 6400 people die every year in Mexico
due to air pollution.
Fact 38: A single person in United States produces 2 kilograms of garbage every day.
Fact 39: The UAE is one of the biggest waste producer and water consumer.
Fact 40: Every 1 million ton of oil that is shipped, approximately 1 ton from gets wasted in
the form of spills.
Fact 41: Most of the hazardous pollutants that are discharged in the atmosphere each year
are released to surface water, ground water, and land, combined.
Fact 42: Approximately 3 billion people without proper shelter and healthcare cook and
heat their homes using open fires and leaky stoves, thus contributing more towards pollution
and global warming.
Fact 43: Chronic obstructive respiratory disease (COPD) that develop due to indoor air
pollution is responsible for the death of more than 1 million people every year.
Fact 44: The people more susceptible to high ozone levels are children, elderly, people with
lung disease, and people who are active outdoors.
Fact 45: A glass that is produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials can reduce
related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
Fact 46: If you think that you dont smoke and you will be spared by lung cancer, just
remember that your lungs or heart may be similarly damaged simply from exposure to
ozone and particulate matter.

Fact 47: Places which are near to high traffic roads, seaports or railyards are dangerous
place to live or work as they contain more concentrated levels of air pollution.
Fact 48: In cities, where there is huge traffic and vehicles run bumper-to-bumper, the
pollutants in the air can seep into your car making the air you breathe inside your car up to
10 times more polluted than typical city air.
Fact 49: In 1987, the U.S. released 1.2 million tons of toxic chemicals into our atmosphere,
670,000 tons into our soil, and 250,000 tons into our water. (International Wildlife magazine)
Fact 50: In the US, 41% of all insecticides are used on corn. Eighty per cent of these are
used to treat a pest that could be controlled simply by rotating the corn for one year with any
other crop.
Fact 51: Public transportation and carpooling can help you to reduce air pollution and
save money up to a great extent.

Problems
How do humans affect the food chain?
We are responsible for killing wild animals. You may not know but one
animal can affect lots of different animals in usually in a bad way and only
sometimes good. Humans kill a lot of different species!!

Humans are similar to pig on the food chain

Humans affect the ecosystem by cutting down trees and polluting
the water
If one animal on the top of the food gets wipe out by a human bad
things would happen and the animals that it is linked to on the food
chain would graze all its food away and die of starvation.

Actions in nature
humans
Deforestation
Farming/agriculture

Animals
Live in a fine balance that
depends on the number of
predators which is controlled by

Chemicals run of from factories

the number of their prey

Pollution

The number of herbivores is

controlled by the amount of
edible plants

Spread of cities in natural habitat

Introduction of foreign animals
Over hunting

Researcher G.A.M