What are 3 reasons why wildlife should be preserved?

Answer 1

1- Humans are killing off species at an increadibly faster rate than natural evolution. So "preserving" wildlife is really just stopping the human interferance in the natural process.
2- Species dying off too quickly & unnaturally (from human influences) throws off natural predatory cycles, which usually ends up with too many of one species which is a big problem. Like we killed off & took the land from most of the wolves in America & now we have a huge problem with too many deer that wander onto our roads & highways.
3- Humans will probably kill off our own species eventually & it would be nice to know we didn't take the whole planet with us.

Answer 2

1.- We are destroying wildlife just because we can. If a superior being develop or visit earth, would they be right to destroy us?
2.- Because we are ignorant of like interdependence. Life in the planet, including our weather depend on healthy ecosystems that we can not mimic efficiently
3.- Because respecting other ways of life actually makes us even better as humans
4.- I know there are conversations about how protecting wildlife reduce poverty, but I havent figure out how yet

Besides of all the benefits we get, like recreation, engineering ideas (designers often copy nature), desease cures (many of them caused by us), etc.

By the way, we have already destroyed human species, or at least races, think about American indians, for example.

Answer 3

The term wildlife refers to living organisms that are not in any way artificial or domesticated and which exist in natural habitats. Wildlife can refer to flora (plants) but more commonly refers to fauna (animals).

Wildlife is a very general term for life in ecosystems. Deserts, rainforests, plains, and other areas—including the most built-up urban sites—all have distinct forms of wildlife.

Humankind has historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways; besides the obvious difference in vocabulary, there are differing expectations in the legal, social, and moral sense. This has been reason for debate throughout recorded history. Religions have often declared certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the environment has provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment.

Literature has also made use of the traditional human separation from wWildlife as food

In Stone Age tribes, hunter-gatherers relied on wildlife, both plant and animal, as their only food source. In fact, some species may have been hunted to extinction by early human hunters. With the rise of agriculture and the domestication of some wildlife, this reliance decreased. However, hunting for game remained an important part of many cultures' diet. Today, hunting, fishing, or gathering wildlife is still a significant food source in some parts of the world. In other areas, hunting and non-commercial fishing are mainly seen as a sport or recreation, with the edible meat as mostly a side benefit.[citation needed] Meat sourced from wildlife that is not traditionally regarded as game is known as bushmeat.
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Wildlife preservation

In some countries, protected areas, wildlife preserves or national parks have been set up to protect wildlife and their natural habitat. The most prominent of these are listed as World Heritage Sites or Biosphere Reserves by the UNESCO. The establishment of parks has been motivated by a mixture of environmentalism, tourism, and other factors. Some of these parks merely prevent development of the land, while still allowing limited hunting and fishing as a population control measure. Others forbid hunting or fishing and some may also limit the number or type of tourist excursions. Wildlife crossings have been installed at some roads to reverse habitat fragmentation.
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Wildlife on television

Wildlife has long been a common subject for educational television shows. National Geographic specials appeared on CBS beginning in 1965, later moving to ABC and then PBS. In 1963, NBC debuted Wild Kingdom, a popular program featuring zoologist Marlin Perkins as host. Since 1984, the Discovery Channel and its spinoff Animal Planet in the USA and the BBC natural history unit in the UK have dominated the market for shows about wildlife, especially those produced or presented by David Attenborough..
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External links

* http://www.wildlifesf.com
* http://www.ecologyfund.com
* http://www.therainforestsite.com
* North American wildlife
* Restoring Appalachian Wildlife
* GLOBIO past, current and future scenarios maps of human impact on particularly larger wildlife, flagship species, and biodiversity in general
* Africam - African Wildlife Webcams
* The Nature Conservancy - a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving habitat for wildlife
* North American Wildlife Photo notecards
* Wild Animals Online encyclopedia - articles on many species, facts, photos

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See also

* Biodiversity
* Endangered species
* Extinction
* List of Conservation topics
* Natural history
* Ornithology
* Wildlife gardening
* Greenpeace
* http://defenders.org/
* Earth First
* Earth Liberation Front
* Natural Resources Defense Council

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Answer 4

They are (usually) beautiful and interesting.
Their existence tells us everything is okie dokie with the health of the planet (i. e., we won't start glowing at night).
We may need their genetic material in the future to cure disease.

Answer 5

That is the most ignorant question ever.