Why is it such a concern that species are being lost from the planet at accelerated rates?

Question

Hi everyone i really need help on this question i have searched for a long time and i cant find anything on the subject i have to include at least five levels of ecological significance. If you dont know the answer and do have a website i can go to to get this information it will be great. Thank you

Answer 1

Each and every species has its importance in the ecology from the smallest to the biggest.

Even today we donot know what they have in store for us. Many genes in them will be of use for us for they have medicinal values.

The whole food web will be lost and ecology will be disrupted. With end of Cheetas from India Black buck population has gone up and this has become a big problem for farmers. If we finish all blackbucks we dont know what new problem will come up.

We need to care for every species and try to understand its importance. If we loose any more may be we will loose some important link which is important.

Answer 2

This link discusses the moral and ecological reasons why extinction of species should be a concern. It is a series of essays written by students when asked this question.

http://www.priweb.org/ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL2002policyopinions/opinions_extinction.htm

My answer would be is because we don't know what purpose many of the plants and animals serve on this planet. Who would have thought we get cures for diseases from little known plants in South America's rain forests? Besides, although I'm not very religious, I have a lot of reverence for the beauty of creation, whether that is a fellow creature, or a snow-capped mountain, or a green meadow. It hurts me to see something like that spoiled for no other reason than the creature comfort or entertaiment of the human species. And don't even get me started about killing for sport.

Peace.

Answer 3

Well you might want to try nationalgeographic.com or scientificamerican.com or discover.com or smithsonian.com. But for me the best site I have found for all questions is the Library of Congress' website at: loc.gov. And one of the questions I asked a while ago on that site is how fast is the plankton in the oceans disappearing and what will happen? The answer was pretty unnerving. Plankton is disappearing from the world's oceans at an alarming rate do to the dumping of toxic chemicals and other waste into the world's oceans and what will eventually happen is that the plankton will not be able to reproduce. This will cause the end of all life on the planet and even though the scientists who study these things do not want to alarm the people, they figure it won't stop mankind from trying to destroy himself even faster, which will be sometime in the next 50 to 75 years.

Answer 4

If we are loosing the species we know about at a high rate, how fast are we loosing the ones we do not know about? Also the why are we loosing them is important as well, other wise we could fine ourselves as a missing or endangered species some day real soon. Each tree we cut down means that much less Oxygen for all of us to breath. And many species are interdepent of each other we loose one the other will soon start to fallow suite!When will it end?

Answer 5

Look under Rapid extinction of all life on earth and causes, in search engine and it list many interesting answers to your question scientific based. Logical based answer, if you were standing on a long extension ladder, on the very first step and the steps below from the bottom going up were rapidly coming apart or (disappearing) would you not be concerned that you were soon to be next?

Answer 6

Well, tigers are disappearing from the wild thanks to poachers, especially in India. It is a concern because these are beautiful creatures and their absence in nature will upset the natural ecological balance. There are plenty of tigers in zoos, however these tigers are hand fed and could never survive in the wild because they don't know how to hunt.

I would just start with a species, like the tiger, and start looking for websites from there.

Answer 7

well lets take the rain forest for example...they have found a lot of remedies for a lot of human disease in the rain forest..and seeing that they are trying to take down many many miles of it each day, what very important things are going to be missing, disease FIXES will be gone forever if we let them tear up the rain forest...we may never know..and what if some of these species that is being lost may have cures that we may never be able to find or sure..
plus if the environment is killing them, it will sooner or later kill us, and the way things are going it might be sooner...
and now we have tadpoles that are not losing their tails before turning into frogs, and frogs with different size legs and five legs and tails, being caused from the environment. so if the water that the tadpoles live in are messing up their DNA, it is going to mess up or DNA sooner than what we think.
so if we do not take this time to stop any and all extinction, it may be way to late for us...before we know it...
and that is one reason,... and to me it is a big and a very good reason to look into this ...

good luck
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Answer 8

Animals just like man die all the time. If u don't adapt u will die. That will be less CO2 for the plants. If all animals died where would the plants get there CO2 from. Could say the plants depend on the animals and the animals depend on the plants.

Answer 9

maybe search "amazon" "rain forest" "species diversity" "biome"

those should get you started

Once a species is lost, we have lost its beauty, its food and drug potential, and the world becomes a more boring place. Like when we are lookin for butterflies and we get only houseflies.

Answer 10

some people are worried abou tdiversification, the more the better and some people are worried about some species known as indicator species who are more sensitive to enviromental situations then we are and if they are disapearing it may mean somethings wrong and could hurt us.