Tuesday, March 19, 2013

INTRODUCTION


OBJECTIVES

Assalamualaikum, Hi : I am NorFahanis Binti Abdullah from DEC 5B and this blog is done for Digital And Mobile communication subject by my lecturer, Madam Hawinda bt Karmon. Purpose I created this blog to let the others know about the Wildlife Conservation.


The objectives for this blog is to inform people about protecting endangered plant and animal species and their habitat. As we know, people always destroy flora and fauna because they wants to find money and build new infrastructural. These blog also wants to ensure future generations enjoy and recognize the important of wildlife and wilderness land. If they know about wildlife, of course in future, they will take care of it.



I also wants to inform that human activity on wildlife will make several negatives effects toward all creatures not only wildlife, but we as human also receive bad impact.




 Lets watch this video together....Enjoys....









EXOTIC ANIMALS


An exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal pet, or an animal kept within human households which are generally thought of as a wild species not typically kept as a pet. Commonly, the definition is an evolving one; some rodents, reptiles, and amphibians have become firmly enough established in the world of animal fancy to no longer be considered exotic. Although the breeding population has been largely isolated from wild populations outside the US, they still have the potential to transmit zoonotic disease. The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, or CITES, moderates the trade of some exotic pets around the world, to prevent any threats to their survival and ecological damage. Certain animals may be strictly regulated or restricted outright due to both their conservation status, as well as the possibility of the animal becoming an invasive species.

Example of Exotic animals : 

Fennec Fox( Fennec foxes are commonly trapped for sale to the pet trade and for fur by the human population of Northern Africa


Sugar Gliders ( Loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them)












ENDANGERED ANIMALS


        Population animals that have been kill

An endangered species is a species of organisms facing a very high risk of extinction. The phrase is used vaguely in common parlance for any species fitting this description, but its use by conservation biologists typically refers to those designated Endangered in the IUCN Red List, where it is the second most severe conservation status for wild populations, following Critically Endangered. There are currently 3079 animals and 2655 plants classified as Endangered worldwide, compared with 1998 levels of 1102 and 1197, respectively. The amount, population trend, and conservation status of each species can be found in the list of organisms by population.

Example of Endangered Animals : 

Three 45 day-old Bengal White Tigers cubs are seen at their cage in the Buenos Aires Zoo.

   Many polar bear have been shoot to get their skin



MAJOR THREATS TO WILDLIFE

Habitat Loss

Habitat loss can be described when an animal loses their home. Every animal in the animal kingdom has a niche, a role in their animal community, and without their habitat they no longer have a niche. Habitat loss can be very disruptive to the biosphere. Habitat can also be destroyed indirectly by human activities such as pollution, fragmentation, climate change and the introduction of invasive species. Although much habitat destruction can be attributed to human activity, it is not an exclusively man-mreade phenomenon. Habitat loss also occurs as a result of natural events such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and climate fluctuations.

Trees are cut down for lumber and to clear land for agriculture or cattle.

    A spatial analysis of cumulative habitat loss in Southern California under the Clean Water Act Section 404 Program


Climate Changes


Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events).




The term “climate change” is used by the media, funding agencies and in professional journals


Temperature changes in Alaska


Pesticides and toxic chemical


Substances meant for preventing, destroying or mitigating any pest. By their very nature, most pesticides pose some risk of harm to humans, animals or the environment because they are designed to kill or adversely affect living organisms. Significant fish and bird kills have resulted from the legal application of pesticides, with millions of fish and birds estimated to die from pesticide exposure each year (Williams, Ted) (Pimental et al 1992). However, at the same time, pesticides are useful to society because they are used to control or kill potential disease-causing organisms and insects, weeds and other pests.
         A near doubling of bad actor pesticides use on Lily Fields surrounding the Smith River Estuary 
Pesticides and Toxic being used everywhere












NEWS

A) $ 14 M for Wildlife Conservation efforts in Indiana

 Indianapolis (AP)- Indiana is getting nearly $14 million in federal funds to assists wildlife conservation and outdoor recreation efforts. The state Department of Natural Resources says Indiana's share of the wildlife and sport Fish Restoration fund is $13.9 million. The money can be used by the states for Wildlife management.


Hunting and Fishing, Deer and Predators
B) Indonesia and Malaysia Back Sumatra Rhino Saving Plan


Indonesia and Malaysia have reached an agreement to save the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.Fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos exist today in a last-ditch attempt to save the species from extinction, the two countries are drafting a two-year emergency action plan.The last wild populations live in Sumatra, western Indonesia and Sabah in Malaysia. 
Less than 100 Sumatra Rhino now exist
At a summit in Singapore convened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), over 130 experts and government officials met to discuss how to tackle the crisis.
Widodo Ramono, executive director of Yayasan Badak Indonesia, the rhino foundation in Indonesia, said: "Serious steps must be taken to roll back the tide of extinction of the Sumatran rhino.

their habitat have been destroy


EFFECTS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

When their habitat been destroy, they will died because doesn't have food and places to raise their young generation. 

Examples of animals that will receive the impact when they loss their habitat  :

A)Polar Bears 
Polar bears rely heavily on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing due to global warming. In Hudson Bay, polar bears are starving during the long summer months as the ice they rely on to hunt for food melts earlier each spring and later in the fall.



B) Pika
The American pika, a small mammal that lives on Western mountaintops, is being forced to move to higher and higher altitudes to find the tolerable alpine temperatures it calls home. As global warming increases average temperatures, the pika may soon run out of places to go.

small mammal animals in danger habitat
C) WaterFowl
Ducks, geese and other waterfowl across the country are changing behaviors and migration patterns and suffering the consequences of more extreme weather, including drought and floods. This not only threatens the birds themselves, but has greatly impacted the hunting businesses that depend on ducks showing up for duck season.

Waterfowl also being endangered species and their habitat always change.