Extinction Of Bat Highlights Critical Animal Rights Failure

As animal species continue to go extinct, the animal rights people of the world sit on their couches and do nothing. Last year a seal species went extinct and animal rights did not even know about it; much less did they care. In addition, "The rare Chinese river dolphin has gone extinct," according to scientists who could not find a single animal during a six-week search on the Yangtze River. Now, the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Bat is nearing extinction, reports the Australasian Bat Society, which could not net a single animal during a four week trapping program to breed the endemic species. With the hundreds of millions of dollars raised each and every year by the animal rights groups, should they not be even a little concerned? Last year alone, the Humane Society of United States earned 107 million dollars. Was even 10 cents of that money spent on protection of animal species? Why are animal species at risk of so little importance to Animal Rights? With the vast resources of manpower and money that animal rights groups have at their disposal, should they not, more then anyone else, raise the alarm? Fund raising, not protection of species, seems to be their prime objective.

The total number of known threatened species in the world today (2009) stands at 16 938 according to Endangered Species International. Of the 44 838 species assessed, 16 928 are listed as threatened with extinction. Millions of species still need to be assessed to know their status. As a result, the number of threatened species is definitely much higher than the current estimate. Threatened species are those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered, or Vulnerable.

As we continue to destroy our environment and as more and more animal species go extinct, the animal rights groups in our world continue to scream about how much chicken I eat, that I put honey in my tea, keep a pet goldfish and how much milk our children drink. All the while 16 938 species of animals are in trouble. Go figure.


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