Reflective Journal 4

After doing my research, I learnt the importance of Tigers and Iguanas. I learnt that if we do not conserve Tigers now, it may affect the food chain of the habitats and lead to decrease and increase of other animals. It will lead to other animals to decrease because there is one less prey to control the population of the predator as more or less, they will had to compete for food and it may also cause the other prey of Tigers population to increase because there is one less predator to kill and eat them up. This may even cause the over-growth of these animals.
The problem now is the obvious fall in their population. India, which had 40,000 tigers just one century ago, is now under expectations over tiger populations.
Some are saying that the numbers had been faulty while the other side is standing by their work. Despite this, many people believe that the argument over exact numbers barely changes how much protection the tigers need. The consistent and falls in tiger populations throughout India has been blamed on the government’s lack of force towards hunters. Tigers are killed for their claws, teeth, skulls, and furs which are worth for $12,500 in China. Many conservationists and wildlife experts say that little is done to protect the species and that poaching and urban expansion has brought about declining world populations of tigers.

For the Iguanas, I learnt that because of the loss of Iguanas, the ecosystems which is the population community they belong to, suffered a lot of serious problems as they are the main or important seed dispersers for many native plants.

I think that if we do not do any actions to prevent the Tigers and Iguanas from decreasing now, other than these two animals, it may also affect the other animal population to increase or decrease when these two animals become extinct. So, we should try what we can do now to help all these animals.


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Taken from http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2008/02/steep-tiger-population-decrease-in.html
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