What is currently being done to prevent animals becoming extinct or endangered?
Many organisations worldwide have been fighting to address this problem – not only of animals but also plants and the integrity of their habitats – which is their life-supporting system. Policies can aim at reducing the direct impacts over a certain endangered species – such as restrictions in their removal (hunting/fishing/harvesting) or trying to minimise impacts that may lead to the degradation of their habitats or somehow threaten the dynamics of their ecosystem. Examples: – destruction of the habitat for human area-use (destruction of mangroves for aquaculture infrastructures, deforestation for agriculture land) – pollution – introduction of exotic species (that compete with natural ones and over throne them, for lack of natural predators) – Climate Change – Interference in an important link of the food-chain (a specie might not be directly threaten but another specie, on which it depends, can be) Actions to protect particular species and habitats include the creation of protected
