Extinct animals - a silent reproach to mankind

The person has very strongly influenced the state of the environment and, unfortunately, not for the better. Chemical plants with toxic emissions, water pollution, spreading debris, deforestation, drying up swamps - all this could not but affect the lives of our smaller brothers. Over the past half a millennium, about 1,000 species of living beings have died out, and in many cases people are responsible for destroying them purposefully or indirectly. Extinct animals have become victims of human short-sightedness and stupidity. Nearly every year, mammals, birds, amphibians, who are protected, are added to the Red Book, and species that have completely disappeared from the face of the earth very often become inscribed.

The extinct species of animals through the fault of man occupy a very impressive list, we give some of the most famous of them. The last zebra Quagga died August 12, 1883 in one of the Dutch zoos. People exterminated this species for the sake of a beautiful and very durable skin - the meat was inedible, so it was simply thrown away. A sad fate befell the Tasmanian marsupial tilacin tiger. In appearance, he looked very much like a big dog with stripes on his back and a long tail. This species disappeared after the invasion of the resettlement habitat. The animal was not ready for this, so it died not only during the hunt, but also from the shock received.

Extinct animals often became an object of hunting, and an itinerant dove became an exception. Poultry was the main dish in the diet of the poor. Pigeons were so many that they were killed and taken to other regions by whole cars, fed to pigs, used as fertilizer. It so happened that in just a century the Americans completely destroyed this species, and then long searched for the reasons for the loss of such a widespread bird. The last pigeon died in Ohio on September 1, 1914.

Extinct animals were sometimes destroyed due to sabotage. For example, the parrot of Karolin was exterminated for causing significant damage to fruit trees. The last couple died in 1918 in Cincinnati. By the destruction of the Chinese river dolphin, the baji people are implicated indirectly. Cargo and merchant vessels so polluted rivers that this species simply could not live there. In 2006, the extinction of the species was officially recognized.

The record holder of the extermination was a steller cow, it was destroyed in three decades. Extinct animals always floated near the surface of the water with herds, they ate marine cabbage. Sea cows were exterminated because of delicious meat, tender fat, which does not deteriorate for a long period, and strong skins. The last representatives of this species were seen in the 1970s. Because of the delicious meat and accessibility suffered and cormorant Steller. This bird was somewhat like a penguin, the last representative died in 1912.

A sad fate befell a wingless gabbler, a turanian tiger, a dodo, a golden frog and many others. Some of them were an object of hunting, others suffered indirectly due to changes in environmental conditions, pollution of nature.

Endangered animals in Russia, the United States, India, Thailand and other countries need protection and care, so to avoid seeing them on the list of extinct species, each of us must make at least a small contribution to the purification of the environment.