Every hour on the Earth disappear three animal species . The planet is in crisis consisting of a sharp reduction in the number of individual species . This is especially true of mammals , said the director of the Moscow representative office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare Mary Voroncova.
Risk of failure exists for rhinos , elephants and tigers. The world has had only two thousand seven hundred tigers. We live in the Far East Amur tigers, are no more than four hundred . There lives an extraordinary kind of leopard. They remained thirty - forty individuals . At the same time , a sharp drop in the number of saiga - antelope which is primarily twenty years were about two million . On the territory of Russia to preserve the flock of three to five thousand, and there are a total of 180 thousand . Obviously, reducing the number of polar bears and walruses , which live in the sea Lapteva .
The number of animals is decreasing throughout the globe . For the past five hundred years, the World Conservation Union . completely died out over eight hundred forty species . According to various estimates, the animals now extinct a hundred or even a thousand times faster than the normal pace of the evolutionary process . This is primarily caused by anthropogenic interference . Global warming leads to irreversible change of environment and as a consequence , the type of failure . On the other hand, conquer new areas , massive forests are being cleared , beyond the farm. In addition , the man is the main consumer of the animal world . Incredibly fast growing market of plants and animals. To restore their populations are needed centuries . As pointed out by Mary Voroncov.
Very sharply reduced the number of elephants . Each year, poachers in Africa killed up to sixty thousand elephants . Killed for ivory , which are still highly valued in Southeast Asia and China . However , most of them killed in order to get grant money to terrorist organizations . He recently attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi. The organization that he possessed came from Somalia . It is believed that up to forty percent of the money that is used in a terrorist activity comes from the illegal trade in ivory from poachers , who take an active part .
In Russia not only to fight the poachers , but also generate various projects for the conservation of rare species of animals and birds . Among other things , that the project " Walruses of the Arctic ." Walruses are usually divided into three subtypes, says project coordinator for WWF Arctic biodiversity Russia Mikhail Stishov. Pacific walrus lives in the Bering and East Siberian Sea. It is an industrial walrus , with him everything is fine . Atlantic inhabits Greenland and East Canada. We - the Barents and Kara Sea . Atlantic walrus is scarce species , it is not known exactly how many there are . Because several years trying to find places where habitat . We found a new habitat on the island Vajgac New Earth . Now we access the satellite observation. There is information on how the walruses are moving in the Barents Sea.
The third subspecies inhabits In waters must Lapteva . It is the most puzzling . It is possible to fall into the Pacific walrus . That remains to be clarified. To conserve populations of walrus , scientists need to have information about the places where they live . Genetics will help to answer this question . Scientists were able to take samples of genetic material of the Atlantic and Pacific walrus . A expedition that took place this year enabled the sampling of three subspecies , which was included in the IUCN Red List . Even before winter at the Institute of Genetics will be obtained accurate data on how these flavors interconnected. It is possible that these studies provide rescue this species from extinction.
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