All animals have an essential role in the environment and an important part in the food chain. Some animals help us with our food and the ecosystem. According to Medium.com, “As top predators, they maintained balance by controlling herbivore populations, preventing overgrazing, and promoting vegetation health. Their absence led to surges in herbivore populations, resulting in overgrazing and disrupting the food chai”n. Since wallabies’ main predator was the thylacine, and the thylacine went extinct, the numbers of the wallabies increased, causing them to grow and eat more grass. Imagine Earth with no plants. This shows that one extinction could impact our oxygen source, plants.

Some people are why some animal species have gone extinct or are currently endangered. National Museum Australia states that “despite evidence that feral dogs and widespread mismanagement were responsible for the majority of stock losses, the thylacine became an easy scapegoat and was hated and feared by the Tasmanian public As early as 1830, bounty systems for the thylacine had been established, with farm owners pooling money to pay for skins.” Many other animal species have gone extinct because of people, such as the dodo and the Javan tiger. Could you imagine a world without burgers and milkshakes? If we constantly kill cows to eat, they will go extinct. The output of taking care of cows and not killing them immediately is meat and milk. If we killed them off without keeping track of their population, they would easily become an endangered species over time and eventually go extinct.

There have already been endangered animals in zoos to protect their chances of survival and decrease their chances of going extinct. The National Museum of Australia states, “On 7 September 1936, only two months after the species was granted protected status, the last known thylacine died from exposure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart.” This shows that although people tried to save the thylacines, they started too late. If this act had happened sooner, this species might still be alive today. 

You can help save lives and decrease the number of extinct animals. Every day, 150 animal species go extinct. Wouldn’t you like to be proud of saving a whole species? You could soon change your future and life with this mindset