Blog #5 - Being Sustainable for Wildlife

     

        Throughout time, there have been many things’ humans have caused whether it be for good or bad. A massive topic that is widely known is the extinction of animals due to human activity. For this blog, I’ve decided to go into depth about the Passenger Pigeon. This bird was announced extinct on September 14th, 1914, from the Cincinnati Zoo. Due to hunters over a hundred years ago, this bird was on its way to extinction because they were hunted by the millions for their meat and were shipped throughout the country to be sold at town and city markets. "Hunters often raided their nesting grounds and annihilated entire colonies in a single breeding season." Along with the massive amounts of passenger pigeons being hunted every year, another causation for their extinction was the action of deforestation, and for obvious reasons this limited the habitat for these birds. To prevent the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the reckless amount of hunting that was done per season was outrageous and was inevitably going to extinct the bird. For the deforestation aspect of the extinction, I would believe that it just pushed the chances of the bird going extinct over the top with the factors of hunting and habitat issues. If there was laws and rules about how many animals can be hunted per season in the 1800s like there is now, these birds most likely be extinct today, that’s why the laws were created. Extinction of animals are a major concern around the world and people are trying to solve these issues by an increase of reproduction and professional supervision.












 References: 

(Photo & Quote): Audubon; Billions to none... the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon: https://johnjames.audubon.org/conservation/billions-none-extinction-passenger-pigeon


Britannica; 6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction, Melissa Petruzzello: https://www.britannica.com/list/6-animals-we-ate-into-extinction













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