Wildlife Populations

Rummaging through topic upon topic, the possibility for me to find something that is actually interesting to me began to look pretty sparse. What am I even interested in? Mental health? Well yeah, but that's what I’ve done my last two papers on, and we just talked about recycling our past essays, so that might look a little fishy. Cancer? Again, yes this topic interests me a lot, but can I actually write a whole research paper on such a scary thing, I would just end up self diagnosing myself with every type I research, that doesn't sound to fun. Oh, what about Trump? There's a lot of research that I could do involving him, like how did he actually win? That's a really good question, thinking more about it though, I highly doubt I would be

First and foremost, I found out the impact that Diseases have on the animals scavenging our planet. In an article titled “The Impact of Disease on Wildlife Populations” disease is uniquely defined by Charlie Baron as “life outside of a zone of normalcy taking into consideration age, sex, race, geographical distribution, and any other attribute that is disadvantages to the species” (as cited in Herman, 1969, P.321). This definition really opened my eyes up to the broad spectrums of things that impact the populations of animals that would be considered a disease. There are many diseases that can affect both animals and humans, one of the most commonly know would be rabies. According to the Center for Wildlife Damage Management (2013), rabies are a highly contagious and often fatal virus that are most commonly characterized by madness and convulsions, this disease in 2012 alone affected almost 40% of all raccoons and close to 3% of all other species in America. Another major disease that is affecting and harming the population of deer, elk, and moose is chronic wasting disease. According to the chronic wasting disease alliance, chronic wasting disease is a highly transmittable neurological disease that causes the degeneration of the brain, often leading to abnormal behavior and death (2005). While both of these diseases tend to affect certain animals rather than the whole animal

The impact that deforestation has on animal populations is absolutely devastating. According to conserve-energy-future.com an estimated “28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation” (Rinkesh, 2009, Fact 12). If this statistic does not scare you, you need a reality check. It is also stated by Rinkesh that not only animals will be harmed within this process, the loss of bacteria, plants, and fungi will be felt throughout the world (2018). It is estimated that around 25% of cancer fighting agents are found in the Amazon rainforest, and at the current rate of deforestation, the Amazon rainforest will be gone within the next 100 years (2018). Most deforestation throughout the world is occuring for a common reason, paper. At the current rate, there is no sustainable source that can supply the demand for paper. So, with the worlds decision to make paper a higher priority then the survival of the millions of species that call the forests of our earth their home, it is beyond necessary to prepare for the drastic changes the loss of these organisms will have on all