Endangered Species
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are any living things on the road to extinction. “It used to be that the natural rate of extinction was one to three species a year. Now humanity finds itself in the midst of a mass extinction, with only mankind itself to blame” (World Losing 2a). There have always been animals that are bec ....
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.... of poaching or illegal hunting. “The Black Rhino also has a long gestation period of 15 months with an interbirth interval of a single calf every 2.5 to 4 years, making it a slow process for rhinos to be introduced back into the world by birth” (International Rhino Foundation 3). “The Black Rhino is illegally hunted for its ivory horn that ranges between one foot to one foot eight inches long” (Speart 26). The animal is slaughtered for its horn while its carcass is left for the vu ....
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