An example of a massacre done to innocent animals

http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdud3nu_FZo

Some endangered species in Portugal

The main reason why animals are in danger
Most low in almost all species in danger of extinction are caused by man, both by habitat destruction and the slaughter of these. This reduction is caused mainly by the fishing and hunting. In fishing are often caught animals that aren’t desired, this causes a decrease in certain species unnecessary. In hunting, the main problem is illegal hunting, because it isn’t controlled, which also causes a decrease of some species and may even lead them to extinction.

This species are:
-Osprey
-Monk Seal
-Iberian Wolf
-Iberian lynx
-Eagle

Polar Bear

The polar bear is one of the largest species of bear. Some specimens can reach about 2 feet long and weigh 700 kilos. Although heavy and solid, moves with ease in the white landscape of the Arctic. Long hair greasy and keeps your body warm, and the subcutaneous fat layer is an additional protection against the cold.
Polar bears inhabit the regions of the Arctic Circle and the surrounding territories, including Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland and the nearby islands, such as Svalbard (Norway) and Wrangel (Russia).


With the melting of ice caps, many bears have been found drowned away from their natural homelands, the victims of displacement of huge masses of ice that break off with the animals up and eventually melt, leaving the Bears far from a local firm and causing, although they are excellent swimmers, will eventually die.



The polar bear enjoys protection in the international conservation of the species. Hunting was banned in international waters, but it was recognized that right of indigenous peoples (Eskimos). Females and young enjoy absolute protection.
Another reason for the defrost

Bengal tiger

The Bengal tiger is a lonely hunter and night, which can cover distances of 10 to 20 km in one night. The tiger lives about 20 years, and the male lives less than the female, because they are always in confrontation with other males because of the prey. The order of carnivores, the only animal that exceeds size is the bear.
It is one of the most endangered big cats from the planet, is the destruction of their habitat or by poaching, and its coveted fur for clothing and bones for traditional medicine. It is estimated that in 2008 there are about 500 Bengal tiger in the free world, three of the nine subspecies of tigers that existed on the planet are now extinct, and others tend to disappear by the genetic crossing between different subspecies.

Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard displays a wonderful cover for the mountain environment of bare rocks and snow, and the color of his skin gray-white (with a slight yellowish tint) dotted with rosettes and dark gray points. It also features adjustments for life at high altitudes including a broad nasal cavity, short limbs. The leopard of snow has an advantage over other leopards, their habitat is difficult to access. He lives at high altitudes, between 3 000 and 6 000 meters in the Himalayas and the mountains of northern China.

Although inhabit remote and inaccessible, now the Snow Leopard in the list of species threatened with extinction because their bones, skin and some of their organs are used by Asian medicine to produce drugs.

Rhinocero

The rhinos are excellent swimmer, getting to spend several hours in the water can ease the bite of insects. Its horn, different than we think, is not made of bone, but made of hair extremely compact forming a structure very sturdy. Their skin can have up to 7 cm and despite the size and weight, which vary according to each species, can reach up to 80 km \ h.
The rhino can sometimes be seen with another species, the Tchiluanda. The Tchiluanda is an African bird that picks ticks and tells the rhino nearby enemies.
There are 5 species of rhinos in the world: Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros White (second largest land mammal), Java Rhino, Black Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros.

The rhino has adult predators are only the man. The young can fall victim to lions, tigers and hyenas if there is a favorable opportunity for them. All species of rhinos are endangered because they are very low fertility (each female has only one litter every two years). So very vulnerable to hunters, in addition to suffering the destruction of their habitat.
They have been hunted extensively because nearly all its parts are used in traditional Asian medicine. The most valuable is the horn that has been used as an aphrodisiac, to cure fevers, for cables of daggers in Yemen and Oman, or to prepare a potion that is supposed to detect poison.

Koala

Koalas are solitary animals. Sometimes they can be seen in groups, but never in groups with more than ten elements, which mostly consists of several females and one dominant male. It is a very quiet animal, it can sleep 14 hours and the rest of the time spends it looking for food.

Koalas eat only leaves and bark from eucalyptus trees. There are over 600 types, or species of these trees, but Koalas only eat the leaves and bark from 12 of them.

They can be found along the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns in Queensland, down through New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia . They also live on islands off the coast of Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.

Reasons for being endangered
Once there were millions of Koalas, but in the early 20th century the Koala was hunted almost to extinction. In the 1920s nearly eight million koalas were killed, largely for their fur.

The most common causes of koala deaths are dog attacks and motor vehicle accidents. In recent years some colonies of koals have been hard hit by desease.