As human populations grow, we encounter wild animals more often as we tend to move into their space.
Animals and plants have always had a tough time surviving. Scientists estimate that over a common fraction of the animals and plants that when lived on earth is currently extinct. Humans take up larger space on earth for home and cities. They pollute habitats and illegally hunt and kill animals. They bring exotic species into a habitat. All of these activities take resources and habitat faraway from plants and animals.

Human activities typically change or destroy the habitat that plants and animals have to be compelled to survive. As a result of the human population is growing, therefore, animals and plants are disappearing 1000 times faster than in the past 65 million years. Scientist calculates that within the 21st century 100 species can become extinct every day. Human-wildlife conflict is occurring more and more, affecting a lot of various species. The consequences of global climate change will probably make the problem worse. People and wildlife progressively coming into conflict over living space and food.

The problem is universal, affects rich and poor, and is unhealthy news for all involved.

There is overwhelming evidence that habitat loss and fragmentation, over-exploitation of biological resources, pollution, species invasions and climate changes have increased rates of global species extinctions to levels that abundant much higher than those discovered in the fossil record. This loss of biodiversity might substantially diminish the benefits that people derive from nature, and that doesn’t seem to be immune from such issues.

The loss of coral reef can scale back habitats for several alternative ocean creatures, and it will disrupt the food web that connects all the living things in the ocean. Habitat destruction leads to incapable of supporting its native species.

The rate of change in our biosphere is increasing and since each species, extinction probably leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in an exceedingly complicated ecological web, the number of extinctions is likely to snowball in the upcoming decades as the ecosystem in unravel. Nobody really is aware of how many species are at risk of turning into extinct. No group of animals has a higher rate of endangerment than amphibians, because of their sensitivity to environmental changes.

Birds occur in nearly every habitat on the earth and are often the foremost visible and acquainted wildlife to people across the world. Habitat loss and degradation have caused most of the bird declines. However, the impacts of invasive species and capture by collector play a big role, too. Declining bird population across most to any or all habitats makes sure that profound changes are occurring on our planet in response to human activities.

The total evaluated reptiles in the world are deemed susceptible or vulnerable to extinction. The most threats to reptiles are habitat destruction and also the invasion of non-native species, which prey on reptiles and contend with them for habitat and food.

Increasing demand for water, damming of rivers throughout the world, the dumping and accumulation of various pollutants, and invasive species inbuilt aquatic ecosystem some of the threatened on the planet. Thus, it’s not surprising that where there are several fish species that are endangered in both freshwater and marine habitats.

Invertebrates, from butterflies to mollusks to earthworms to corals, are vastly diverse and although many invertebrate species exist, they are estimated to account for about for 97 per cent of the overall species of animals on earth.

In the ocean, reef-building corals are declining at associate sinister rate. First-ever comprehensive international assessment of those animals disclosed that a third of reef-building corals are threatened.

Unlike animals, plants can't readily move as their habitat is destroyed, making them notably the risk of extinction. Indeed, a study found that habitat destruction results in associate "extinction debt".

Human is now responsible for causing changes in the atmosphere that hurt animals and plant species. And whereas concern over extinction focuses on globally lost species, most of the biodiversity benefits take place at an area level, and conserving native population is the only way to ensure genetic diversity crucial for a species long-run survival.

Above all, don't approach or harass any wild animals that you simply encounter, and heed aggression warning of a probably dangerous life.