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| Sign that has endangered animal (1). |
Imagine yourself with your parents walking through a zoo and seeing all different kinds of animals. On the right you see these pretty looking birds and on the left you see all sorts of gorillas and apes. As you keep walking, you past one animal, the Amur Tiger, and see a sign. It reads, “Endangered Animal”. You think to yourself, “What is that?!” and stand there wondering about this strange creature.
There are many animals like the Amur Tiger that are endangered. Endangered animals are a group of organisms that have a risk of becoming
extinct (2). This means that these certain types of animals are close to being gone FOREVER. Endangered animals live in many different places and live differently than other animals. They are in great danger and are threatened by things in the world that are trying to get rid of them. These are special creatures and there are not a lot of them in the world like others.
Endangered animals become endangered in three different ways. One reason is because the place that they are living at is getting destroyed and is running out. There are also bigger and stronger animals that eat up small animals which cause endangerment. Or, there is not enough animals left in the world to make baby animals and have them grow up (2).
The Amur Tiger living in the zoo, is not actually from there. It is found in another country way across the ocean. The Amur Tigers are found In Russia, China and Korea. The tigers live in forests and get their food from there. The house that you live
in is your safe place where you can relax and have fun in. The forest is the tigers' safe place for them. The place is full of plants and trees and gives the tigers a place to eat and have fun.
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| Amur Tiger walking in the forest (3). |
The reasons why the Amur Tiger is endangered is because their habitat, or home, is being destroyed and people are breaking the law and hurting them. People today are trying to find places to put
homes and other buildings so they chop down trees in the forests where the tigers live (3). They destroy everything and leave the tigers with barely anything. Think about how you would feel if your safe place got taken away from you. This is how the tigers are and do not know where to turn to. People are also hurting these Amur Tigers and poaching them. Poaching means that they killing and selling these special tigers' bones, skin and fur for money. How scary! This is against the law but many people still do it (3).
However, there are good people out there who are trying to save the tigers. Humans are finding new places for the tigers to live at like the zoo or an area only for that animal. Also, they are watching how many tigers there are left and helping them make more. Giving these animals more food and water is something else that is helping the tigers more and more each day (3).
Not only do people help out with endangered tigers, but they also try to save other endangered animals too, everywhere on earth. Saving these special animals is very important to everyone, even you. These animals help with giving the earth different kinds of cool and special animals. Just seeing them and knowing they are out there is pretty awesome. Animals help us farm and give us food so that we can eat every day (4).
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| Trees that are chopped down in the tigers' home (3). |
However, there are good people out there who are trying to save the tigers. Humans are finding new places for the tigers to live at like the zoo or an area only for that animal. Also, they are watching how many tigers there are left and helping them make more. Giving these animals more food and water is something else that is helping the tigers more and more each day (3).
Not only do people help out with endangered tigers, but they also try to save other endangered animals too, everywhere on earth. Saving these special animals is very important to everyone, even you. These animals help with giving the earth different kinds of cool and special animals. Just seeing them and knowing they are out there is pretty awesome. Animals help us farm and give us food so that we can eat every day (4).
Next time you go to a zoo or any place that has animals and learn that they are endangered, you will know what they are talking about. You can feel like a grown up and let your parents know what you know!
3. Amur Tiger. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2014, from https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/amur-tiger
2. Evans, M. (2011, May 29th). Endangered Species. Retrieved November 28th, 014, from http://www.earthtimes.org/encyclopaedia/environmental-issues/endangered-species/
4. Why Save Species? (n.d.). Retrieved November 29, 2014, from http://www.fws.gov/endangered/species/why-save-species.html
In the first paragraph you have both of the animals to your right. I think that you wanted to say one was to the right and the other to the left. Other than that your blog helps explain the concept of endangered species to a younger child. The yellow was a little hard to see.
ReplyDeleteYou did a very good job of writing in a way that children will be able to understand. You explained everything well and I think it was effective to just focus on the Amur tiger rather than a bunch of different species as to not confuse the children who read this. The colors were nice, and the picture were also effective, but maybe add a little bit more description in the captions of the pictures. I only saw one grammatical error which is in the third paragraph it should be "There are also bigger and stronger..." Other than that everything looked very good!
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