Extinct Animals/Haiwan Yang Telah Pupus

sephia_liza

"The passenger pigeon needs no protection.   Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced."  Report of a select committee of the Ohio Senate in 1857 on a bill proposed to protect Passenger Pigeons.  One of the most noted of extinct animals, passenger pigeons were reduced from numbers in the hundreds of millions for food.

Heath Hen, Chester A. Reed

The Heath Hen was established as distinct from its relative, the Prairie Chicken in 1885.  Correllus State Forest on Martha's Vineyard was created in 1908 as a Heath Hen Reserve to prevent the bird's extinction.  The last Heath Hen was sighted in 1932 shortly after a grassland fire.

me_ai

kesan yg dah manusia buat sejak beribu2 thn dulu,

sikit lagi kucing pun leh tgk kat tv je

tak pun wat patung mainan je

yg idup semua nya pupus

ijad_adiputera

Originally posted by fly_in_d_sky at 21-6-2006 06:50 PM
clon ler binatang yg kecik jer
cam burung dodo ker ...
comey lak tgk burung dodo nie .....

dulu aku penah tgk kt Discovery Channel / Nat. Geo...
dorg buat dokumentari psl sepasang sejenis burung yg mmg mcm burung dodo kt mauritius....
dorg (org yg buat dokumentari tu) rasa itu la pasangan burung dodo yg terakhir di dunia...
pasangan dodo tu ada dua ekor anak yg baru menetas dari telur tp sekor mati sbb x cukup mkn...
bila anak yg sekor lg tu dh besar, ia pun ikut pindah ke tmpt lain bersama mak ayahnya..
semcm rasa sedih je tgk nasib 3 ekor burung tu...
x tau idup lg ke x skrg...

sephia_liza

Found above the tree line and near permanent snow in central Asia'sdry mountainous country, the snow leopard has been prized as a hunter'strophy, destroyed as a predator of domestic flocks, and sought as asource of valuable fur. Complete information as to its numbers is notavailable, but almost everywhere it is considered to be rare or indecline. Currently, the most serious threat to its survival is loss ofhabitat due to human expansion.  
More than 150 snow leopards live in zoos where theyhave been bred successfully. The snow leopard is now listed as anendangered species and is legally protected by the Convention onInternational Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Insome places, however, enforcement of regulations is difficult. Reserveshave been set aside for both the cat and its prey species.

sephia_liza

Last noted in Saskatchewan in 1937, this weasel is now considered to beextirpated in Canada. It has fared little better in the United States.An animal of North America抯 arid, shortgrass prairies, it livedprimarily with, and on, prairie dogs

Wide-scale poisoning programs to eradicate prairie dogs and thedestruction of grassland habitat also killed off the ferret. It nowsurvives in a few places in the western United States where ranchersare compensated for not molesting prairie dog towns and wheremanagement programs for the prairie dog and the ferret are beingdeveloped.

sephia_liza

Large breeding colonies of this flightless, penguin-like sea bird oncegathered on rocky islands and coasts of the North Atlantic in Canada,Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. A strongswimmer, the great auk wintered as far south as Florida and southernSpain.
Its extermination began with a slaughter for food and bait by localinhabitants, and continued for the bird抯 fat and feathers. As thebirds became scarce, they were collected for a well-paid trade in skinsand eggs. The last known living pair and one egg were taken in Icelandin 1844, and the great auk is now represented in collections only bybones, skins, and eggs.

Japanese Crested Ibis
ntil the late 1800s, this ibis nested over a huge area of mainland Asiaand Japan. With the cutting of pine woodlands, where it nested, and theuse of pesticides in rice paddies and marshlands, which were itsfeeding grounds, the bird抯 numbers declined drastically. It is nowdesignated in Japan as a Special Bird for Protection, and in Korea asNational Treasure No. 198. It also has full legal protection in theformer USSR. Currently, there are about 40 birds in the wild whichsurvive in South Shaanxi, China.

sephia_liza

Always considered scarce, the imperial parrot is now an endangeredspecies, and is found only in the mountain rainforest of Dominica inthe Leeward Islands. Logging destroyed much of the bird抯 habitat, andhunting for food and sport, although unlawful, reduced the populationuntil, by 1992, only 80 to 120 remained.
A hurricane in 1979 caused tremendous destruction of the rainforest,especially in the newly established national park, and brought about atotal ban on hunting. Of great importance to their survival will beeffective law enforcement, public education, and protection of theremaining rain forest. Captive specimens have never bred successfully.

secawankopi

wah banyaknya menatang yg dah pupus

liza_shariza

idup lg tread aku rupanya... hehehehehe...

alphawolf

thread ni belum pupus lagi...hehehe

inaniloquent

comei nyeee.....imperial parrot tu....nape pupus,huk..huk..