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Use Less, Help More

Posted on June 11th, 2008 by ivyr.
Categories: Enviro-news.

Use Less, Help More

Nathaniel Youngren

Endangered animals are not like a normal cat or dog.    An endangered animal is one that there is not many of, such as animals that are almost extinct.  If nothing is done there won’t be any of these animals left at all and that is bad.

But why do we care?  There is a kind of gorilla called a lowland gorilla and once there were a whole lot of gorillas.   Then the number of gorillas dropped by 56% due to poaching and habitat loss and disease. Poaching is done largely by poor and jobless people.  Habitat loss means people chopped all the trees down.   The deadly Ebola virus has been linked to the death of thousands of gorillas in Africa, bringing the species closer to extinction.

What can we do?  I’ll tell you.   We can reduce habitat loss by reducing our consumption of wood and paper products.  You can buy recycled paper, recycle at home or school, don’t litter, walk more rather than take a car.  Portland recycles anything that comes from trees, glass and plastic. At school we can recycle our paper and trays, milk cartons and plastic. So the next time you want to throw away paper recycle it and use less. Think about our animals.

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