Extinction of Animal Species Due to Climate Change

Running head: EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
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EXTINCTION OF ANIMAL SPECIES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE1
The current ecological situation of Earth is not a secret to anyone anymore; every
person knows how complicated the situation has been and who are at fault for making the
circumstances so complicated that the outcomes are disastrous. Global warming, pollution,
deforestation and more such environmental disasters are the common issues that people get to
listen to everyday; however, the issue of animal extinction is something that needs to have the
focus of every people on the planet (Pearson et al., 2014). Animal extinction is caused due to
the factors of global warming, deforestation, pollution and more, but what is disturbing is
that, the extinction is indirectly or directly related to the interreference of human species with
the work of nature. Around half of the species around the world are heading towards
extinction and climate change is in fact a major reason for the occurrence of such a disaster;
however, it must also be noted that the climate change is directly or indirectly occurring due
to the unnecessary interference of humans (Saltré, 2016). Hence it can be said that the
extinction of animals is being caused by climate change but the humans are actually in fault;
many scholars think that the climate change might have an impact but not profound enough
to cause extinction (Thomas et al., 2004). The humans are the cause of such a global issue
and only the humans can prevent this issue from deteriorating later in the future.
Before discussing about the causes of extinction, it must be mentioned that extinctions
are of two kinds: one is the “dead- end extinction” in which once a species extinct there is no
replacement. The other kind of extinction is the “taxonomic extinction”, in which a certain
lineage ends, but a new evolutionary species evolves from the previous species, yet it is
termed as a new species (Bestion et al., 2015). Thus, the dead end extinction is the most
deadliest form of extinction and it must also be noted that existence of e very species is
related in one way or other to the existence of some other species; hence it becomes an
utmost important task to avoid any type of extinction of animals from the surface of the earth.
And global warming holds the most potentiality to bring upon extinction on the endangered