Endangered Species

How many dodos are there left in the world? None! How many water voles are there left surviving? 18! Why don’t people care about them?
We are selfish. Admit it, people. We destroy animals’ natural habitat by cutting down trees and polluting rivers. We hunt them down for their precious fur. We have wars. We move around and spread diseases. Think about orang-utans. They can only have babies every 4 years. And then poachers kill the mothers, take the babies and sell them to people for about ￡30000. Now, orang-utans are fast disappearing. Setting up rescue centers can be easily done. In the wild, the average lifespan of an orang-utans is 50. We can breed baby orang-utans there and teach them how to find food if the mothers are dead.
Most people don’t know that pandas, the cuddly xiongmao, or bear-cat, as called in China, will disappear off the edge of this world within 2 to 3 years. Pandas are independent animals, and seldom live in groups. Males and females can only be together on 10 days of a year. Females can only be pregnant on 2 days. Mother pandas often starve to death because they don’t have enough bamboo. A normal 100 kg panda has to eat 20 kg of shoots everyday, because bamboo is not a nourishing food. Fortunately, centers have been opened in Gansu, Shanxi (the one to the east of Gansu) and Sichuan provinces, where the most number of pandas live. Every year, they receive up to 183 baby pandas. Newborn pandas weigh only 100 g, so they can be easily squashed by their own mother. Let’s help them and ban hunting!
Horrific things happen to endangered animals. In 2003, many reports were received over the world, saying that people dig up the eggs of leatherback turtles (a severely endangered animal) and eat them. We’ve got to save these animals! They, like the dodo, will vanish and nobody will ever see them again. Governments must
protect them! They must make the punishment heavier! Build more rescue centers! Ban people from using parts of endangered animals as medicine!
People can fend for themselves. They can work and earn money. But can animals do that? We must help them and save the world! We must not cut down trees and dump waste into rivers! People, let us work together and save the endangered species!