Grace's Art Blog: Drawing ED Species

Endangered

Full Body Shot of Tiger

An endangered species or being endangered means an plant or animal is in very much at risk of being extinct. Or on the verge of becoming extinct forever. On the other note I chose to write on the tiger and the blue whale. Lets get started.

Head Shot of Tiger

Tiger

Jumping Shot of Tiger

Mother and her Cubs

Most tigers are endangered and/or critically endangered. At this point we have lost 97% of wild tigers, it has become so bad there are only 3,200 left in the world today and I think it’s time to change that! Now a female tiger can have cubs every two years, but the sad thing is most of the cubs only live for about 2 years. Tigers travel alone like a female and her cubs, but the mother can only travel so far for safety because we take up their land for hunting and their home along with many other animals. We have now taken more than 93% of the tigers historic range and home. Just think if your home was taken apart just cut down gone forever for some other factory or something and forced to live with no home, how would you feel? I would be very angry, sad and a bunch of other mixed emotions just for a factory? Tigers cannot survive in scattered and small habitat. Along with the tigers have to move they have to cross human villages and that means risking their lives because people like to poach tigers. So when a tiger and sometimes her cubs cross some of our villages, they need to hunt for food in out livestock. But if some of us catch them the people will capture or kill tiger and her cubs. I think the worst thing is that some people hunt tigers as a trophy for their walls or sold in black markets as food. Many of you might not know that climate change is also apart of tigers being endangered because the storms and wind damage the trees causing them to fall but also the flooding, scientists say in the year 2070 the flooding can ruin the forests that tigers live in.

A Shot of a Cub

Also tigers never

Shot of a Tiger Swimming

attack bigger

animals unless

needed to like if an bigger animal or us was attacking the tiger or her cubs that would be the only reason why a tiger will attack an bigger animal of us. Tigers love to swim and if needed they will catch their prey in the water. mostly tigers will approach their prey slowly and waiting for the right time to pounce just like this tiger in the picture below.

Tiger in Captivity

A Shot of a Tiger Waiting for it's Prey

A Male and Female Tiger

A Tiger Roaring

Blue Whale Head

Blue Whale

Life Size Blue Whale

The blue whale is the largest animal on earth, their heart is the size of a Volkswagen beetle, and its stomach can hold thousands upon thousands of krill

Whale Submerging Out of Water

Blue Whale Tail

each and every day. So no wonder why we need to say this gentle giant. Blue whales are endangered we have about 10,000-25,000 left. It was better than before but still not so good. The blue whale is on the top f the food chain in the ocean because of the heath of our marine environment. The

Blue Whale Jumping Out of Water

Blue Whale and a Boat

reason why this beautiful creature is endangered is because in the 20^th century the blue whale was killed, and the blubber that keeps that whale warm was used and he was eaten. Due to a ton of hard work commercial whaling has been stopped in 1986. But the Soviet Union kept trying to poach these creatures. But now a days we don’t poach the blue whale anymore, now blue whales are threatened by the environment. The environment you say, yes the environment due to toxics in the ocean and habitat loss. Another reason is fishing boats, if a blue whale runs into a fishing boat it is most likely to get tangled up in the fishnets. Climate change is also a factor same with the tigers. But no, climate change has impacted the krill that the blue whales eat.