man greatly affected the environment and, unfortunately, not for the better.Chemical plants with toxic emissions, water pollution, littering, deforestation, drying of wetlands - all this could not but affect the lives of our younger brothers.Over the past half a millennium became extinct about 1,000 living species, and largely to blame for the people who purposefully or indirectly destroying them.Extinct animals are a victim of human folly and stupidity.The Red Book of almost regular basis to mammals, birds, amphibians, to be protected, and it is not often become fit species completely disappeared from the face of the earth.
Extinct species of animals by humans occupy a very impressive list, we present some of the most famous of them.Last Zebra Quagga died August 12, 1883 in a Dutch zoo.People destroyed this type for a beautiful and very durable skins - the meat was inedible, so it is simply discarded.The sad fate befell the marsupial Tasmanian tiger tilatsina.In appearance it is very much like a large dog with stripes on the back and a long tail.This kind of disappeared after the invasion of habitat immigrants.The animal was not ready for this, so do not die only when hunting, but from the resulting shock.
Extinct Animals were often hunted, not the exception, and has become a passenger pigeon.Poultry was the main dish in the diet of the poor.Doves were so many that they were killed and exported to other regions of whole cars, fed the pigs used as a fertilizer.It so happens that in just a century, Americans have completely destroyed this kind, and then been looking for reasons for the disappearance of such a common bird.Last pigeon died in Ohio September 1, 1914.
Extinct animals are sometimes destroyed because of sabotage.For example, the Carolina Parakeet wiped out for having inflicted significant damage to fruit trees.The last couple died in 1918 in Cincinnati.The destruction of the Chinese river dolphin baijiu people indirectly involved.Freight and merchant ships of the river is so polluted that this species simply could not live there.In 2006 it was officially recognized as the extinction of species.
Record for extermination was the Steller's sea cow, it destroyed three decades.Extinct animals are always floating at the water surface herds ate seaweed.Sea cow slaughtered because of the tasty meat, tender fat, which does not deteriorate over a long period, and strong skin.The last representatives of this type seen in the 1970s.Due to the availability of tasty meat and suffered and Steller Cormorant.This bird is somewhat reminiscent of a penguin, the last representative died in 1912.
sad fate befell the Great Auk, Turan tiger, dodo, golden frog, and many others.Some of them were hunted, others indirectly affected due to changes in environmental conditions, environmental pollution.
endangered animals Russia, USA, India, Thailand and other countries in need of protection and care, however, not to see them in the list of extinct species, each of us must do at least a small contribution to a cleaner environment.
