Major Threats To Wildlife
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Major threats to wildlife can be categorized as below:
- Habitat loss: Fewer natural wildlife habitat areas remain each year. Moreover, the habitat that remains has often been degraded to bear little resemblance to the wild areas which existed in the past.
- Climate change: Because many types of plants and animals have specific habitat requirements, climate change could cause disastrous loss of wildlife species. A slight insects are harmed and disturbed. Plants and wildlife are sensitive to moisture change so, they will be harmed by any change in moisture level.
- Pesticides and toxic chemical: Widely used, making the environment toxic to certain plants, insects, and rodents.
- Unregulated Hunting and poaching: Unregulated hunting and poaching causes a major threat to wildlife. Along with this, mismanagement of forest department and forest guards triggers this problem.
- Natural phenomena: Floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, lightning, forest fires.
- Pollution: Pollutants released into the environment are ingested by a wide variety of organisms.
- Over-exploitation of resources: Exploitation of wild populations for food has resulted in population crashes (over-fishing, for example)
Read more about this topic: Wildlife Conservation
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