Poaching hunting ANTONIO SAORIN, MIGUEL CALVO Y DANIEL ASENSIO

POACHING HUNTING

DEFINITION:

Poaching is a global problem that has affected animals and has led to the put in danger of many species. Living things are captured in their native habitants and are sold as pets or for purpose of research or are killed so that their parents are sold for medicines, food, clothing or accessories.

CAUSES:

The causes of many species have become extinct or are dangered has been the exploration of animals for food and other products. For example, the dead of whales in large size for oil and meat has led them to the brink of extinction; African rhinos, killed for their horns, are also threatened. Great giant Elk became extinct in the 19^th century as a result of excessive hunting, and the Carolina parakeet disappeared as a species due to hunting and the destruction of their habitat.

CONSEQUENCES:

Rupture of the ecological balance, because each species not only interacts with the abiotic factors but it is constantly interacting also with other species for food, shelter or other benefits while competing with others (and can even be eaten).                         Loss of biodiversity.                                                                                A high percentage of single adult female families had an atypically small family size, with an average of only 2.2 adult females.