Hey! Where is my home?

Deforestation.Over the past 10,000 year, human activities such as urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture have shaped up the surface of the earth. Human have transformed billions of hectares of former forests and grasslands to cities, roads, houses, and other uses. Our actions have certainly caused the loss of wildlife habitat.Globally, around 13 million hectares (ha) of forests were converted to other uses (including agriculture) or were...

Commercial Products and live Specimens

Coats made from Endangered Animals Craft Products from elephants ivories Animal's skinWalking down to the street in the city you will bumped into pet shops where sold birds for example parrots, beetles, and lizards or even souvenir shop you might come to these products such as butterflies or beetle specimens of even a tiger skin purse! Wildlife products are everywhere! From this, we can...

Polution maker?

Don’t ever get angry if I coded we are actually the criminal for putting state of wildlife on the state extinction by creating much pollution to the ecosystem. There is lot of pollution that human created such as toxic pollution, and water pollution just to name a few have numerous impacts on ecosystem of the earth specially human activities such as oil mining, oil transporting, and chemical industry.In this aspect, we would like to bring you an accident which has numerous impacts on ecosystem...

POpulation

In this topic we are going to address some human- caused factors about wildlife extinction. To be more focus, we will go into detail one topic by one post only. In this post, we are going to examine on population. Human population growth has negative influences on biodiversity in several ways. With huge human population in this earth, our consumption on earth resources will increase rapidly. This phenomenon will directly increase our demand on earth resources for instance; we will need to harvest...

What is the main Factor that cause wildlife extinct?

In this section, we are going to determine the main factor that causes wildlife extinct. According to my study in the book of Environmental Science, A Global Concern, 8th Edition by Cunningham and Saigo, 2005, the authors determined two main factors which are Natural Causes of Extinction and Human- Caused Reductions in Biodiversity. Let us look into it one by one. First, let us look into the aspect of Natural causes of extinction briefly, research on fossil suggest that more than 99 per cent of...

The Price of Wildlife trading in Black Market

According to my finding in internet I have found that the prices of wildlife trading in black market can guarantee a great profit for the wildlife hunter and wildlife traders. It is hard to believe that the price offered during the trading is very high and expansive! The list of wildlife trading is shown below:• Siberian Tiger: $70,000• Sea Turtle Skin Boots: $480• Lion: Price on request• Tibetan Antelopes Woven Shawl: $30,000• Gorilla (in London): 4,500 pound• Stuffed Polar Bear: $US 11,000• Orangutan...

I need to wake up from Melissa Etheridge.

Every time I listen to this music from An Inconvenient Truth- The best documentary movies in the 79th Oscars and ‘I need to wake up’ from Melissa Etheridge- The best original songs in the 79th Oscars, I feel that this song really inspire everyone.How was it inspiring people? From my point of views the lyrics of the song start with ‘Have I been sleeping?’, ‘I’ve been so still afraid of crumbling’ which bring the meaning of the people still concern about the environment issue or not. Even those who...

Malaysia Passes WILDLIFE Protection Law

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A Malaysian law intended to deal with animal traffickers and poachers may be too late to save some of the country's endangered species, wildlife activists say.After years of wildlife being decimated by human activities, Malaysia finally responded with a wildlife conservation law called "overdue," Inter Press Service reported Tuesday.Conservationists, concerned that Sumatran rhinos, orangutans, Malayan tigers and clouded leopards a losing their fight for...

Jane's Reasons for Hope

"It is easy to be overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness as we look around the world. We are losing species at a terrible rate, the balance of nature is disturbed, and we are destroying our beautiful planet. We have fear about water supplies, where future energy will come from – and most recently the developed world has been mired in an economic crisis. But in spite of all this I do have hope. And my hope is based on four factors.The Human BrainFirstly, we have at last begun to understand and face...

The story from the Persian Empire

The story begins with few sentences which I got it from the book of Social Science 13th edition edited by Hunt & Colander. The story mentioned about the Persian Empire in 336 B.C where King Philip II was assassinated and his rule was assumed by his son, Alexander the Great, who was not yet twenty years old. By the time Alexander died, overcome by a sudden and unidentified disease when he was only thirty-three years old, he had solidified his father’s conquest of Greece and then gone on to conquer...

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG..!!!

Greetings..!!!!We're the students of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities UKM.This blog is our project for English for Social Science course.We hope that this blog will brings u a lot of informations on controversial issues in wildlife protection.Sooo....hope u will enjoy it.......