martes, 10 de mayo de 2016

WHY ARE WE LOSING BIODIVERSITY?

       The destruction of natural habitats is one of the first causes of the loss of biodiversity. When we transform woods, lands, jungles… into urban zones, roads, farms… we are destroying hundreds of natural habitats.
        And to show that this is real, I’m going to put an example. Last statistics reveal that 50% of the natural ecosystem was lost in Mexico last year.  As you know, we can find a lot of woods and jungles there, so, people take advantage of them and they destroy them in order to build some new buildings, roads, or whatever. But apart from that, they also kill hundreds of animals. Actually, it seems as if we don’t realise about the good luck we have, due to the fact that our statistics are not so high.
      Regarding the animals, we can’t forget about not native species, which are introduced in different places of all around the world. These type of species can become dangerous for some of the local species. In Ermua’s dam they introduce some new fish species each year. One of the most common one is the fish called Blas Blas. These fishes are pretty big, so they need to eat constantly. In this dam, apart from little fishes there are also ducks. So what these ugly fiches do, is eating them and leaving that dam without that duck specie.

Ainara De Jesús

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