Scientists have also observed that interacting with animals increases levels of the hormone oxytocin. This healing can be emotional as well as physical, as oxytocin makes us feel happy, encourages trust, and promotes bonding. This helps explain why we literally fall in love with our pets.
Wildlife is sufferingSome of the biggest threats to wildlife include illegal wildlife trade, habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution, and clime change. Illegal Wildlife Trade: The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth largest criminal industry in the world, after drugs, arms, and human trafficking.
Top 10 ways to save wildlife
- Adopt. From wild animals to wild places, there's an option for everyone.
- Volunteer. If you don't have money to give, donate your time.
- Visit. Zoos, aquariums, national parks and wildlife refuges are all home to wild animals.
- Donate.
- Speak Up.
- Buy Responsibly.
- Pitch In.
- Recycle.
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.
1 million species under threat of extinction because of humans, biodiversity report finds.
Animals help humans in so many ways, from professional support (as guide dogs for the blind or as therapy dogs) or offering us love and companionship in our daily lives. Animals reduce the fear of their owner in threatening situations; they guide the blind; they warn those in danger of diabetic or epileptic fits.
The environmental impact is hugeIt contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration and deforestation. Nowhere is this impact more apparent than climate change – livestock farming contributes 18% of human produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
Humans rely on animals for food, fiber, labor and companionship. Animal scientists help put food on our tables. Animal scientists work with farmers to improve animal breeding, diseases and nutrition. When animals grow well and stay healthy, farmers can produce more meat, milk or eggs for our consumption.
Let's take a look at some of the miraculous ways animals help us.
- Bees are powerful pollinators.
- Beavers combat climate change.
- Llamas patrol farms.
- Rats detect landmines.
- Squirrels help trees take root.
- Narwhals assist scientists.
- Elephants create a source of water for other species.
- Birds balance nature.
By conserving wildlife, we're ensuring that future generations can enjoy our natural world and the incredible species that live within it. To help protect wildlife, it's important to understand how species interact within their ecosystems, and how they're affected by environmental and human influences.
The climate impact of meat is enormous – roughly equivalent to all the driving and flying of every car, truck and plane in the world. When forests are destroyed to produce industrial meat, billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.
Every animal needs to be taken good care of, given food, shelter and veterinary care, this way humans show commitment towards animals. For animals to have respect for humans we must also do the same to them, most of the domestic animal's behavior is mainly influenced by how they are treated by their masters.
11 Vital Species We Need to Save The Planet
- Bees Are Vitally Important to the Ecosystem.
- Phytoplankton Are the Lungs of The Earth.
- Fungi Are the World's Recyclers.
- Menhaden Are Vital To Marine Food Chains.
- Bats Are Vital To Protecting Some Food Crops.
- Earthworms are the Recuperators of the Earth.
- Cyanobacteria are the World's Main Nitrogen-Fixers.
Read on to discover a few of the animals we have lost to our unthinking exploitation.
- Dodo - Raphus cucullatus. dodo.
- Steller's Sea Cow - Hydrodamalis gigas.
- Passenger Pigeon - Ectopistes migratorius.
- Eurasian Aurochs - Bos primigenius primigenius.
- Great Auk - Pinguinus impennis.
- Woolly Mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius.
World Wildlife Day 2020: The Indian Cheetah and Sumatran Rhino were among some of the species that went extinct in 2019.
- Sumatran Rhino.
- Chinese paddlefish.
- Yangtze giant softshell turtle.
- Indian Cheetah.
- Spix Macaw.
- Catarina Pupfish.
- Indochinese tiger.
