Seriously Scary

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Hearing about animals going extinct really fries my ass. I am so disappointed with humanity every time I see / hear / read a story about extinction.

As I was reading this particular story (link above) I discovered a shocking statistic near the bottom of the article. There are currently over 41,000 animals on the IUCN Red List. The red list is a collection of animals that are considered "threatened". Of these 41,000 animals, over 16,000 of them are considered endangered on the verge of extinction.

It's so saddening to read something like that while also being extremely anger inducing. I can almost bet what the reasoning behind their move towards extinction is and that is us. Our race is slowly but steadily wiping out animals and it generally boils down to greed / over population. Hunting, Poaching, and Habitat Loss are almost always the reasons an animal goes extinct.

It frustrates me so very much that it seems like most people don't care. How can someone knowingly hunt animals that are endangered? It's especially frustrating in the case of poaching, where do you go after you push a species to extinction? No more ivory AND it's too late to save the animals. Greed is motivating people to wipe out entire species of animals. There is no logic in these situations, only dollar signs. By the time our desire for more of everything becomes monitored it will be too late.

I am so scared for the future of our animals. I'm scared that numbers don't lie and there are over 16,000 species I may never get the chance to see. 16,000 species that did nothing but exist and we decided that was too much to ask. 16,000 species of animals that deserve the land just as much as we do and we are bullying them out of it.

This planet needs to wake the f up before we have nothing but memories of animals left.