Endangered animals

Endangered Animals

Endangered animals refers to wild animals which are under threat of

extinction or which have become extinct. Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs

became extinct, sixty-five million years later, the lives of many animals are still under

threat. Endangered species are victims of human activities, these activities includes

destruction of natural habitats, pollution produced by factories and over exploitation

as well as overpopulation.

The American Indians, who settled north America 30,000 years before the

Europeans were responsible for the extinction of many species through hunting,

species such as the giant sloths and Mastodons. Since the Europens settlers arrived in

the New World, the rate of extinction has accelerated. The passenager pigeons is

believed to have been the most numerous type bird in the world. They were hunted

endlessly and in 1914, the last one died in an American zoo. Bison became nearly
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