What are the effects of animal poaching?
Effect of Poaching on Biodiversity The extinction of species affects the forests, which makes a huge difference that causes climatic changes. Poaching over the years has been responsible for the death and drastic reduction of many species of animals.
How does poaching affect environment and humans?
Poaching can affect the environment by depleting certain species of animals. It causes animals that are endangered to become extinct, thus creating a disruption in the food chain. Eventually, it will cause as a result new adaptations of animals, and/or species beyond human control.
What are the negative effects of poaching?
Poaching can have negative effects on the environment because when one species is declining at a rate too fast to replenish, other species can increase or decrease as well. Plant life can overgrow or cannot regrow due to the other species that was normally hunted by a poached animal.
What animals have gone extinct because of poaching?
10 Animals Hunted (or Nearly Hunted) To Extinction
- Woolly Mammoths. The last of the Great Woolly Mammoth populations vanished near the end of the last Ice Age over 4,000 years ago.
- Caspian Tigers.
- Thylacines (Tasmanian Tigers)
- Dodos.
- Passenger Pigeons.
- Polar Bears.
- Muskox.
- American Crocodiles.
Why shouldnt we poach animals?
Poaching leads to the depletion of natural resources. The animals are a source of natural beauty and are vital natural resources. Continued poaching leads to depletion of these valuable natural resources, it is difficult to breed these animals especially if their species is reducing to poaching.
Why does Africa poach?
In African rural areas, the key motives for poaching are the lack of employment opportunities and a limited potential for agriculture and livestock production. Poor people rely on natural resources for their survival and generate cash income through the sale of bushmeat, which attracts high prices in urban centres.
