California Condor
Endangered Species: California Condor
The California condor was going extinct for many reasons such as: poaching, habitat destruction, ingestion of trash, and lead bullets used for hunting big game. But since a lot of government and local help the condor has been put on the endangered list. One way the government has helped inter fear was compromising with local hunters. For example lead bullets used to hunt big game where severely hurting the condors because when they ate the dead bodies of the animal shot with lead bullets the got lead poisoning and usually died.
What affects will it have on the ecosystem? What is the ecological importance?With out this bird in the ecosystem many things could become impacted starting with humans. This bird is the largest scavenger and with out it many dead animal bodies would be laying around attracting more unwanted things such as dieses and more rodents; plus who else would clean the dead animals up.
The California condor was going extinct for many reasons such as: poaching, habitat destruction, ingestion of trash, and lead bullets used for hunting big game. But since a lot of government and local help the condor has been put on the endangered list. One way the government has helped inter fear was compromising with local hunters. For example lead bullets used to hunt big game where severely hurting the condors because when they ate the dead bodies of the animal shot with lead bullets the got lead poisoning and usually died.
What affects will it have on the ecosystem? What is the ecological importance?With out this bird in the ecosystem many things could become impacted starting with humans. This bird is the largest scavenger and with out it many dead animal bodies would be laying around attracting more unwanted things such as dieses and more rodents; plus who else would clean the dead animals up.