Cameron Gaytan

Wildlife conservation
Alex Coburn
8/12/22

Did you know that there are 8.7 million species and counting. Everyday,up to 150

species are lost throughout the world, that is as much as 10 percent a decade. The last

physical sighting of a grizzly bear in California was in the early 1930s. Impacts on the

planet and what it consistently comes back to is people. Rhino horn and pangolin scales

are hunted because people believe that eating it can cure sickness and rhino horns

were going for 60,000 dollars during covid when normally they were going for 25,000 to

30,000. All zoos in the United States only have 6,000 species that is only 0.006 in zoos

and only 115 of them are bred in captivity to help their species and to be released in the

wild that is 0.001 percent of all the animals in the world.

What this stem cafe made me think about is why do we hunt down animals to

near extinction instead of just them thriving in their environment . If we were to

stop hunting these animals we would still have white rhinos and have more

tiger,pangolin just to name a few . I did enjoy the stem recording about wildlife

conservation because the presenter explained a lot and made it easy to

understand and it was about a topic I already like and enjoy.

Wildlife biologist

National Geographic

12/8/22

Sergio Sliva is a wildlife biologist with sky island alliance. Silva was born in Mexico city

and raised in Mexico’s Zacatecas State. Silva received a degree in biology from the

university of Aguascalientes. He photographed a jaguar 30 miles south of the border

between the United States and Mexico . Silva can know what paw prints belong to the

animal, how far it travels and what preferred den or shelter. He must communicate with

different groups of people on both sides of the border. He also educates the public and

enjoys talking to students and other groups about the area’s southwestern sky islands

and his organization’s work.