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     It doesn't matter if you love animals or if you know very little about them, the Popcorn News' Animal section will be right for you! Our topics will vary from animal shelters to hunting and will surely make you want to read more and more articles about what else but nature's very own childs! -CD

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    One of the things humans love the most is money. Unfortunately, some people will do anything to get some more. Doing so also includes killing wildlife animals for their body parts like fur, teeth etc.

   Animal trading obviously helps the hunter in life, but it effects the environment also. Alot of people around the world are trading, which leads to animal killing, which leads to an unbalance environment. This trade is also the reason that animal population are going down making the animal specie become extinct.

   In less than 10 years, animal population in Mongolia has been descending quite rapidly bringing most of their animals to extinction. Some animals that are currently extinct include the brown bear and the Taimen fish.

   Even thought animals that are already extinct doesn't mean their species population stays the same. For hunters and traders, animals that are already extinct means that it is more valuable making the price value higher.

     One of the cruellest acts a human being can commit is hunting. Animals, they are just like us. Are we being hunted down for no reason? Are we being left to flee other creatures with guns? No. Then why should animals be too?

    Hunting is horrible, but like most situations; it has a positive site. Without hunting, our lives would be over populated making our world unbalanced. Yet with too much hunting, more animals would become extinct.

    Yet with too much hunting, nature’s animals would be extinct once again making the world over populated and unbalanced. If a hunter wishes to hunt, they must have a hunting licence. Even if you have a licence, it doesn’t mean you can go around shooting every animal you see.

   A legal hunter would still have laws to follow. Example, they cannot hunt all species that they see, especially those that are endangered. Not all areas are open for them; some natural areas are completely restricted from any form of hunting.

    Even though we have hunting licences, some illegal hunters fail to understand that animals are just like us. They have feelings, family and need to be and stay alive. Both ways, they still hunt down animals big and small no matter what the law says.

    Which makes us come back to the same questions. Do we, as human beings care enough about animals? Or is hunting just oppurtunity to make money? There are actually lots of people and organizations that care a lot about the animals.

     Like the the WWF where they help all animals in the wild and preventing illigal hunting and illigal wild animal trade. This organization has been helping mother nature for almost 50 years! This respected independent conservation organization has invested over US $1billion in more than 12,000 projects world wide!

     These projects are all made to help nature, animals and humans...

     "We are finding ways that allow us, the increasing numbers                              of "us", to live with what we have..

    The tigers. The great apes. The giant pandas. 

     To stop crowding them out. 

     To work out ways in which we can both survive. 

     Without eating it, hunting it or hustling it out of its home to the                           point where      it doesn't exist anymore.

                       To the point where we call it extinct."

   If enough of us take action and stand up to these cruel animal acts, our world would be united from animal to human all working and living in unison.

       If you look in a downtown alley, don't be surprised to see stray cats and dogs. As the year stretches, stray animal population grows even quicker. More than 12 million animals are staying in shelters right now, but unfortunatly most of them cannot find a forever home. Yet millions more are left on streets and urban areas. Because there are too many animals in shelters, they cannot afford to get food or room for all the pets in need. Therefore, they do not have much choice but to put the pets to sleep until it dies.

      Why should most animals have to live and experience this? Aren't they just like us, living creatures from nature? If we get a right to live, they should too. It's not fair to leave the pets sitting in the shadows of our every days lives, they should have the right to live a decent life. Not on the streets searching for food out of the dump.

     For every human that is born, 7 puppies and kittens are also born making it hard for every single animal to have a home. Of 12 millions dogs and cats, 61% of those dogs are killed and 75% cats are killed. It also cost about $100 or more to capture, feed and eventualy kill the a pet- a cost the you, the taxpayer eventualy pays.

   One of the most popular animals association is SPCA. This organization helps any kind of animals like dogs, cats, birds and more. They are ready for any type of animals, even ones like goats, ferrets and owls! This organization is everywhere from Ontario to Nova Scotia! Yet SPCA doesn't just help domestic animals, they also help farm animals and zoo animals giving a chance for the animals to actually live a decent life like us humans.

   What's sad is that people don't want to adopt the animals for how they look. What happened to "looks don't matter" and "it's what's inside that counts"? It's usualy more easy to say, rather than to do. Some dogs are being left behind for having black coats. Instead of costing the dog $300 (vaccination etc) the shelters had to lower the price down to $25 just for a family to adopt a black coated dog.

This must stop now, instead of saying we need to do something, do something. So the next time you pass a shelter, just think and realize that you can help an animal live just by giving these three things. Family. Love. Patience.

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