Why animal welfare is necessary to save species from extinction

Animal treatment and living conditions are referred to as aspects of an animal's welfare. When an animal is healthy, well-fed, safe, able to exhibit natural behaviour, and unaffected by pain, fear, or distress, animal welfare is respected. Taking care of an animal's emotional and physical needs is essential to ensuring its wellbeing.

A person's values and life experiences can have a big impact on how they view various aspects of animal welfare.

Health, productivity, behaviour, and physiological responses are just a few of the ways that animal welfare can be evaluated.

Animals must have access to food and water, be handled properly, receive medical attention, and live in an environment that is suitable for their species.

Animal population management and conservation must be compassionate and ethical.

Animals should always be treated with respect and dignity, and if necessary, they should be put to death humanely.

Although there are numerous organisations that work to protect wild animals, they are increasingly threatened while pets are protected by laws.

The majority of animal species are currently in danger.

Today, a species of animal extinction occurs every 20 minutes. Agriculture, pollution, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, poaching, intensive farming, pesticides, fertilisers, overexploitation of resources, etc., are all largely caused by human activity. All of these actions aid in their extinction, either directly or indirectly.

Of the 138,374 species examined, 38,543 are listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's most recent statistics.

The global extinction threat affects 41% of amphibians, 14% of birds, and 26% of mammals among these species. The same is true for 33% of coral reef-building species as well as 37% of sharks and rays.

France currently has 1,742 threatened species on its soil, both on French territory and abroad, placing it among the top ten threatened species hotspots.

Elephant, polar bear, and tiger extinctions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to indicators of the health of our ecosystems. When they vanish, it frequently means that the entire ecosystem on which they depend is also going extinct.

However, because we are all interconnected and dependent on one another, protecting wild animals is essential for our own survival.

For instance, if fish consume toxic substances or microplastics, we eventually consume them as well. Additionally, since bees are essential to the pollination of 80% of our plant species, the effects of their total extinction would be catastrophic.

Therefore, the extinction or disappearance of wild animal species would seriously disrupt both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

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