Human Impact on Wildlife Survival Everyone has seen those wildlife shows on TV. The shows on National Geographic and the like, showing animals in beautiful environments, everything thriving and growing and nothing wrong that would threaten these creatures and these places. But has anyone seen the other side? The side where all these beautiful creatures and plants are starving, being decimated by predators that have never been there before, and sometimes even being poisoned from their own homes and habitats? Obviously no one did. That doesn't mean it's not happening. It's happening and it's happening everywhere. And guess who's to blame? People. Society. Humans as a race pollute the environment, hunt animals simply for their parts, fish far more than humans will ever need just for the sake of money, introduce new species into new places for our gain, and even intentionally destroy entire regions for human use only. expansion. And it's starting to show. While it is true that nature is constantly changing and that some species come and go, in the last few hundred years humans have caused the disappearance of more species than nature has ever caused since the age of the dinosaurs, and so it is up to to humans to repair the damage caused, both by cleaning up the environment and the habitats of these creatures, and by taking more direct action to protect and preserve species that are on the brink of extinction. As stated above, there are a multitude of causes for this “mass extinction,” and most of them are man-made. One of these causes is overfishing. Everyone loves to eat fish. However, with the overfishing, humans harvest more fish than we can consume as a population. Overfishing occurs when people harvest more fish from the or... half of the paper... we need and the oceans. Reduce the use of chemicals and pesticides. Society must do something, even if it is just by donating money to an organization that does fish and forests disappear, before the earth has so little diversity that only humans remain. Works Cited Simmons, Randy T. Critical Thinking on Environmental Issues: Endangered Species. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Print.Bily , Cynthia A. Endangered Species. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. PrintGeorgia, Warren. “Humans are responsible for the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs.” Sunday Times, The nd Newspaper Source. Network. 16 April 2014 “Poaching”. Online infofinder on the world book. Book of the World, 2014. Web. 22 April 2014 “Threats” worldwildlife.org. Global Wildlife Fund, 2014. Web. 25 April. 2014