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Human Effects on Animal Populations
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Description	Animals are effected everyday by humans who lack interests in their wellbeing.

Human Effects on Animal Populations impacts how animals live and strive. Many humans seek to help improve the lives of animal. Such as providing animal shelters or recovery centers. Rescue team's main objective is to remove any animal out of harms way. People tend to take advantage of how animals rely on them for their wellbeing, such as habitat destruction, fashion purposes, animal cruelty, and other numerous things that effect animal populations. Animals that do not rely on humans to live are still effected by the careless acts of them.

Habitat Destruction

Since 1980, the U.S. destroyed more than 10 million acres of forest into suburban communitites. Every year three million more acres of forests, grassland, farmland, and wildlife habitats are eliminated. As cities and urban areas continue to grow, the conflict between human habitats and animal habitats interfer. The expansion of cities impacts the quality and quantity of the habitat occupied by the animal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a agency dedicated to the management of fish, animals, and wildlife. The USFWS protects all species endangered or threatened. Human overpopulation is a major threat to the animals worldwide.

Fashion

Millions of animals are slaughtered every year to satisfy the fashion industry. Humans tortue innocent animals for wool, leather, and silk to make items such as coats, boots, belts, and purses. Fur farming is the practice of breeding and raising animals for the use of their fur. Farmers keep the animals in cramped and unmanageable living circumstances where they are soon to be killed. The United States gets over half of its fur trade from China from dogs and cats. Leather comes from China and India from cows. Most wool is from Austrailia, where sheep are mutualted and beaten to death. Animals all over the world are being effected for the creul pleasure of humans.

Pollution

Pollution is a drastic way that humans have hindered the lives and habitats of animals. Air, water, and soil pollution has taken the lives of many animals. The effects on organisms range from mild injuries such as physical deformities to serious diseases. For example, the chemicals in pollution may cause birth defects such as offspring with a missing limb or multiple limbs. Oil spills has resulted in vey high death tolls in marine life. Thousands of animals wash up on shore covered in oil and severely injured.

Animal Cruelty

Animal Testing

Over 100 million animals are being tested every year for animal testing. The more popular animals that are tested include rats,mice,dogs,cats,birds, and primates. Humans cause pain and suffering on animals to experiment and understand them. Many animals die from the experiments or are later killed for further testing.

Animal Hoarding

Animal hoarding is the failure to provide basic nourishment for their animals. Hoarders tend to keep a high a quantity of animals as domestic pets where they are unable to care for them. Many animals are forced into a confind space where disease is often easier to spread. The owner may not have the money to provide health care or food for the animals. Many animals that are originated from hoarding houses either die or put to sleep becuase of the lack of maintanence. Animal hoarding is a form of animal cruelty. People who are hoarders dont see the harm in keeping the large number of animals and are in denial for harming the them. The affect of hoarding is long lasting and may result in the animal's inability to be adopted to a new home.