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Friday, 21 December 2018

Summer Learning Journey Day 3 Activity 3: The World Wildlife Fund

Aloha bloggers,

Wildlife is crucial to the world as if we didn't have it, we might not have lived. If we didn't have sea life, you couldn't enjoy your fish meals, or shrimp. If we didn't have farm animals, we couldn't have eaten chicken or goat. If we didn't have animals to spread seeds, plants might not have grown. Animals are forever going to be with us on Earth, but sometimes we don't do such a good job protecting them and making sure they're safe.


This is a job for The WWF, which stands for The World Wildlife Fund. These people are a big group who save animals who are in desperate need for care and support. Wait, but where do they live, you ask? Good question. Hundreds of The WWF live all over the world and protect animals from all different places depending on where they live.

Here is an example of what The WWF has done to save tigers.

Forests in Asia are the home to lots of rough tigers. The only problem which has made it hard to live is that the people in forest are taking down trees to grow rubber trees.
The WWF decided to stop this by showing their extreme desire to stop rubber factory selling, and to try to monitor people hunting and poaching. This will work, but they can't stop because if they do, it may slip.

In 2006, there were only 1,411 tigers in the wild! We really needed to increase this, so in 2010, we had gotten up to 1706. After that, it increased even higher over 100 years and it is not 3890 tigers left in the wild. Not all tigers are in the wild though. About 5000 to 7000 tigers are living in captivity in the USA according to the WWF. Do you like the idea of the tigers all living in captivity? Comment it down below.


Please comment and tell me your answer to the question about tigers in captivity.


BYE!

1 comment:

  1. Jumbo Gargee,

    You have a lot of information here, could you tell me about your information source? I am very curious to find out more about the rising numbers of Tigers..

    You have mentioned what animal WWF is trying to save, do you know what kind of tiger is endangered? There are a few different types of Tiger in the world. Maybe next time you could include some images of these Tigers to show readers the regal creatures that are endangered.

    I am concerned about how little the numbers are for Sumatran Tigers. It reminds me of our treasured bird, the Kakapo who are also an endangered species. Do you know of any other endangered species in Aotearoa?

    Keep working hard.

    Toe feiloa'i fo'i,

    Cia.

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