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Date 2/10/2015

Critical Essay on Mass Extinction

From all indications, animal species are in their final stages of death. Just like a human body when in its final stages of dehydration, the body suffers, shrinking, the youthful skin gets wrinkles and sag, the tongue cracks and starts to swell. Also, into orbit the eyes recede, the muscles seize and brain cells shrivel, the kidney becomes dysfunctional, and the volume of the blood starts to drop. When all these functions take place in the body, they interfere with the function of the body system until the whole system stops functioning thus pleading to death. Similarly, the animal species have been faced with various challenges affecting their living and survival modes thus causing a mass extinction. The main challenge is the reality that animal species are getting to a critical point where it will be hard to salvage them regardless of the precautions that might be taken.

Unexpected freezing, thunderstorms, and prolonged droughts are the constant occurrences that the world is regularly going through. These occurrences have an adverse impact on the animal species. Scientists have raised an alarm that species continually disappear at a background alarming rate whereby replacing the loss of new exotic species. However, as time is going by, the rate of extinction is increasing while us the rate of replacing is decreasing thus making the difference more visible. This is more so because, animals and human beings are interdependent, and they need each other for survival. When animal species continues to decrease, human life is affected as well.

With increased population across the globe, human activities continue to increase relatively as well. The 20th century has a made the most impact in terms of habitat degradation, overexploitation, agricultural monocultures, human-borne invasive species, human-induced climate-changes due to activities like cutting down trees and thickets to create space for infrastructure. Technology advancement, globalization and civilization of the human species, have also contributed (Lehmann, Julia, Aman, and Robin, 2015). This is because new ideas are being realized on how species can be used for economic resources and replace them with exotic ones that can bear with the current climatic conditions. All these factors are heading the world to a no salvage situation just like Kolbert, Elizabeth (2015); it is in deed the sixth extinction because another current living style has no place for animal species that have already threatened to be on the verge of varnishing.

Besides scientists arguments about mass extinction, personally have witnessed numerous poaching cases in different parts of the world. However, in poaching, elephants and rhino’s are the endangered species as poachers are only interested in their husks. As a result, despite the control measures that different nations of the world continues to put in place to control poaching, the number of elephants and rhino's continues to decrease immensely. This only leaves a major question, what can be the absolute solution to mass extinction bearing in mind that the social, economic, and political forces that push mass extinction does not decrease, but rather increase? And as Prince William suggest and supports, the efforts to curb poaching are not the absolute solutions to mass extinction in the world today (Prince William, 2015).

The world desperately needs to be saved from the already out showing dangers of mass extinction. Though different measures have been put in place like reserved animal parks, more still need to be done. Human activities should be controlled so that they do not affect the animal species the more. Other amendment strategies should be put in place more so to try and maintain a reliable climatic condition that can favor both human beings and animals. And as Le Page, Michael, of 2015 suggests, today’s reshaping is vital as it hold the future.

In conclusion, mass extinction is a reality, and the different factors have immensely contributed to the current mass extinction situation. Having realized the real causes, application of amendments to save the situation can be a reality. Although there have been the introduction of new exotic species to the world, it is another shocking reality that the measure does not solve the problem. Conservation of natural resources, ecosystem, and species remains the ultimate solution to mass extinction that the world is experiencing today (Le Page, Michael, 2015).

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Kolbert, Elizabeth. "The sixth extinction? Many scientists agree that we are headed for another mass extinction like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs."New York Times Upfront 2014: 12. General OneFile. Web. 7 Feb. 2015.

Le Page, Michael. "Reshaping Eden: The Future Of Biodiversity. (Cover Story)." New Scientist 206.2757 (2010): 38-41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 Feb. 2015.

Lehmann, Julia, Amanda H. Korstjens, and Robin I. M. Dunbar. "Apes In A Changing World - The Effects Of Global Warming On The Behaviour And Distribution Of African Apes J. Lehmann Et Al. Global Warming And Ape Biogeography." Journal Of Biogeography 37.12 (2010): 2217-2231. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 Feb. 2015.