My Operahunting is a cause of extinction
Friday, December 11, 2009 11:21:10 AM
Commercial hunting, both legal and illegal (poaching) is the principal threat. The snowy egret, passenger pigeon, and heath hen are United States examples. There is a little wonder why some rhino species are decreased only a few thousand individuals with only a weak hope of survival in the wild because at US $16,000 per pound, and US $ 40,000 to $ 100,000 per horn.
Commercial hunting is most popularly known by whale hunting. Commercial whaling for meat and oil since the eighteenth century has threatened most of the world’s baleen whale species and several toothed whales, with extinction. The whales of our oceans have been hunted nearly to extinction. The blubber and meats of whales are used in many different products such as lipsticks, mascara…
( Thanh Diem)
Commercial hunting is most popularly known by whale hunting. Commercial whaling for meat and oil since the eighteenth century has threatened most of the world’s baleen whale species and several toothed whales, with extinction. The whales of our oceans have been hunted nearly to extinction. The blubber and meats of whales are used in many different products such as lipsticks, mascara…
( Thanh Diem)
