Rights

The issue of rights in regards to my issue of Animal Conservation can be very ambiguous. I believe that a right of animals is a right to live and reproduce. Of course there will always be natural selection, and the food chain. Some animals will always eat other animals as a food source, but when it comes to excessive poaching their rights are being taken away. Animals become endangered because they are being killed at a much faster rate than they can reproduce. Eventually this leads to extinction. Not everyone would agree that animals have a right to live and reproduce, as they would argue that humans have a right to hunt animals, and that this is what they were put on earth for, or we have become superior and therefore should be able to use our resources and knowledge to do as we please with them. But i have to disagree, there is a point in which our superior attitude is throwing off the balance of the earth, and I do believe it is the right of a species to live and reproduce, as it can seriously harm the earth when they cannot.

Facts

"In America's youth, the most numerous bird on Earth was very likely North America's passenger pigeon. Today, incredibly, all are gone: the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction by 1914." I found this information on the NRDC website. The NRDC, or Natural Resources Defense Council, is a very large and widely known and trusted environmentalist group. Although some people may not want to trust a group, or the news blindly, there is always room to do research. After looking up "extinction of passenger pigeon" on google, I found numerous sights supports NRDC's claim that passenger pigeons are in fact extinct. Many groups have done research on passenger pigeons, and have found that there are no remaining passenger pigeons living anywhere in the world today. I also did not find any claim that the passenger pigeon is not extinct. The extinction of passenger pigeons is a fact because there is research to support it, and absolutely no debate on the subject.