The Extinct Animals Of The British Isles

The animals in our wildlife do need caring for.
Without our help many of these animals will go
extinct like many have before and as you can
imagine this is definitely not good. This is why
everyone needs to provide food and drink for the
wildlife so that they can get by and live for as
long as we do.

The number of different kinds of mammals has
been decreasing for thousands of years many of
which most people have never heard of and some
that are still around today in other parts of
the world. For example the Walrus used to roam
about the British Isles up until 1000BC when the
ice age began to end it became extinct to the
areas around the British Isles. A Species that
is now completely extinct is the Woolly Rhino
which generally roamed around southern England
and then in 10,000BC it became extinct to the
British Isles which is when it became extinct
around the world as well. Other animals that
have become extinct in the British Isles are:
the Artic Lemming (8000BC), the Aurochs
(1000BC), the Breech Marten (19th Century), the
Brown Bear (1000AD), the Coypu (1987), the elk
(1500BC), the Eurasian Lynx (400AD), the grey
Whale (500BC), the grey wolf (1680), the Irish
Elk (6000BC), the Narrow Headed Vole (8000BC),
the Pika (8000BC), the root Vole (1500BC), the
Saiga Antelope (10,000BC), the Steppe Lemming
(8000BC), the Tarpan (7000BC), the Wisent
(3000BC), the Wolverine (6000BC) and the Woolly
Mammoth (10,000BC).

Although not many birds have gone extinct from
the British Isles it is still important to make
sure the birds that are remaining are fed
properly as some are close to extinction. One
bird that has gone extinct here is the Great
White Pelican which went extinct in 1000BC but
this animal is still living worldwide which
means the British Isles do not have the ability
to look after this bird. The other bird that
went extinct her it the Great Auk which went in
1844 and is now extinct worldwide, this creature
was like a penguin although it was different.

Not many fish have gone extinct in the British
Isles but if mass fishing continues how it there
will be problems that face many species of fish.
One fish that did go extinct is the Burbot and
this fish went extinct as recent as 1972 but
this fish still swims the rest of the seas
around the world. This has left many people
wondering why the fish cannot live in the waters
around Great Britain but his is probably because
of the cold waters that surround use. A fish
that has gone extinct completely is the Hounting
and these went extinct in 1940 due to extensive
fishing.

Like fish and birds reptiles have not really had
any major problems but with many ponds being
filled in many reptiles like frogs could go
extinct. This is proven by the fact that the
only reptiles that have gone extinct are frogs.
These frogs are the Agile Frog and the Moor frog
and both went extinct in 1000BP. BP is basically
an approximation of an animal's age and this is
figured out with a formula.

Many reptiles have survived with only one
knowingly going extinct on the shores of the
British Isles. The only reptile that has gone
extinct is the European Pond Terrapin which went
extinct in 5000BP. This animal still roams the
earth and is a specie of turtle that no longer
lives in the British isles.

Beetles have been increasingly going extinct
with all of them doing so in the past 200 years.
This raises issues about why they cannot cope
with our environment in recent history. The
beetles that have gone extinct are: the Agonum
Sahlbergi (1914), the Blue Stag Beetle (1800s),
Graphoderus Bilineatus (1906), Harpalus Honestus
(1905), the Horned Dung beetle (1957), the
Ochthebius Aeneus (1913), the Platydema
Voilaceum(1957), the Rhantus Aberratus (1904),
Scybalicous Oblongiusculus (1926) and the
Teretrius Fabricii (1907).

The trend that formed with the beetles is the
same with butterflies, wasps, bees and flies
with all of the extinctions for the species
happening within the past 200 years. This is
frightening with so many going which then serves
the problem that if we continue how were all of
these animals will soon be gone this is why
action need to be taken as all of these animals
are of great risk. The reason they are going
extinct has a lot to do with pollution. This is
why everyone needs to do there bit to reduce
their carbon footprint to help stop the rising
temperatures around the earth as well as to save
the animals that are at risk.


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