New Blog Analysis 

Throughout these eight months, I have taken what I have learned in the classroom and have seen these problems in real life situations. I have chosen about 32 articles to read and write a summary about the articles that I have found. Out of all of these articles, I then chose three that I was really interested in and I wanted them to connect to an overall problem that we have on our Earth.  

The first article that I chose, I read in November. The title of this article was ‘Forest Giraffe’ Now Endangered: Okapi Populations Drop 50 Percent in 18 years. In this article, John Platt reported that a new animal has been put on the endangered species list by the International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources. This animal was a mix of a zebra and a very large deer. There have been arguments about this for about five years now. After looking at statistics from 1995, this species’ population has decreased 50% over that time. This species has also been listed under the Red List category. When looking into this species more, the Okapi lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Platt). With this in mind, there is so much violence evolving in this environment, which makes the Okapi’s living conditions even worse. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been remaining in civil conflict and suffering from extreme poverty. (Platt). The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placing laws over this rare species but it just seems like its really not having a huge effect. Because of all of these problems and conflicts, the Okapi Conservation Project was created, which facilitated that this species is so important and there has to be specific changes made in order to help these endangered animals. Overall, species like the Okapi are one of many that have the same problems and animals need to be payed more attention to. (Platt). 

The second article is called, “Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar”. Throughout this article, Lizette Alvarez had reported that dolphins have been turning up off of coasts completely deteriorated in Miami. In addition to the ocean, we also need to be more aware of the marine animals in these oceans that are also being greatly affected. The reports going all of the way back to June until January have told us that these dolphins have been ending up on coasts going all the way down the east coast of the country. (Alvarez). In June, this started in New Jersey and New York and has reached Florida, passing Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. The report has shown that about 1,000 bottle nose dolphins have washed up on these shores dead. (Alvarez). When looking more into these dolphins’ deaths, we see that most of them suffered from the morbillivirus and predictions say that it is only going to get worse. After doing more research, it is said that the residue from the oil spill in 2010 is really affecting them. Again, look at what is happening to these animals. They are suffering all over the world. (Alvarez).

This last article is called, “For Already Vulnerable Penguins, Study Finds Climate Change is Another Danger”. Here, Henry Fountain had reported that Magellanic penguins have not only been struggling with staying a live, they are now dealing with climate change on top of that. (Fountain). After doing a study in Punta Tombo, Argentina, all of the intense storms, habitat loss, a difficulty to find food is so concerning for these penguins. When analyzing these storms, we have seen that the release of all of the greenhouse gases into our atmosphere is essentially causing for the intensity of storms to increase. This is a big concern to a lot of species, after seeing this story come alive. Overall, these three articles have all dealt with animals and species that are struggling to stay alive. We need to think that our actions are not only affecting us, but all of these species. (Fountain). These articles mainly interested me because I really think that animals are never looked up to as first priority and I think after reading these articles, every animal on the endangered species list or even close to it needs to be watched very carefully.