The African Bushmeat Crisis

Earth is home to millions of different plants and animals. The cycle of life is a very delicate process in which every species depends on every other species for survival.
Endangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants. The causes of extinctions millions of years before humans were inhabiting earth was linked to climate and geological changes, the effects of which were translated into major alternation of the environment. Environmental change is still the primary cause of the extinction of animals, however now the changes are greatly accelerated by human’s activity. Today and especially in the last twenty years their has been an overwhelming problem with the hunting and killing of bushmeat around the continent...