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The Conservation Effect

Animals are facing the first steps of their apocalypse every day. Humans destroying their habitats are the leading factor to why animals are becoming extinct. Three quarters of all the extinctions which have occurred in the last three hundred years were caused by humans. Rates indicate that we are likely to cause the eradication of a quarter of all the known species within the next 20 years if nothing further is done to protect theses species and their homes. While some things are already being done to aid animal conservation, more extensive interventions are crucial to preventing further loss of our precious wildlife.
The importance of a functioning ecosystem is often overlooked. An ecosystem is a cycle of life that consists of all plants, animals, and microorganisms working together in order to survive. If one factor of an ecosystem is eliminated, it will fail to work properly. This has been happening all too often in recent years. Many of the threats in today’s ecosystem are completely preventable but we have to take the steps in order to assure that the threats expire. Humans play an essential role, both good and bad, in how ecosystems operate. We have the intelligence to acknowledge our mistakes, and the capability to correct them. There are many beneficial factors for humans in an ecosystem. We have to treat the ecosystem with care and learn not to abuse the resources it provides all us for living.
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) states that “Many of the human activities that modify or destroy natural ecosystems may cause deterioration of ecological services whose value, in the long term, dwarfs the short-term economic benefits society gains from those activities” and “The functioning of many ecosystems could be restored if appropriate actions were taken in time.”(Vrable, 2007, p2) They cannot tell how much time society has left to fix the problems that they have created. This means that the problems could already be in the irreversible...