HUMAN INTERVENTION
Human intervention has played a huge role to the Felidae family and their habitats. Whether positively or negatively, every single organism within this family is impacted by the actions of humans.
SUMATRAN TIGER
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered because they live in isolated populations on the island of Sumatra, causing the tigers to interbreed, producing less healthy offspring. People in Indonesia are working to expand protected boundaries and striving to protect the tigers. Even at the Toronto Zoo efforts are made to encourage mating for endangered species that included, biotechnology, hormone boosts for female tigers, and sperm collection for breeding programs. CHEETAH
Human intervention is a huge issue to cheetahs because many cheetahs are hunted for their furs as well as their habitats are being destroyed. Cheetahs that live in open grasslands are losing their habitats due to expanding human developments like towns or farms. It not only forces the cheetahs out of their environment but also makes them much more vulnerable to other predators. COUGAR
Humans are the greatest threat to cougars because of methods of habitat destruction. Cougars, living in forests, face the difficult struggle of deforestation. By losing their habitat, they are losing their survival advantage, prey, and safety. Humans also attempt to exterminate the cougars through means of poison, hunting, and trapping. Although hunting is prohibited to some areas, it is still practiced in many regions. CLOUDED LEOPARD
The largest threat to clouded leopards is deforestation, which is a result of human intervention. The leopards habitats are destroyed as well as their prey species are declining. Hunting illegally in many countries for the clouded leopard pelts, teeth and bones are also causing the numbers to decrease. |
AFRICAN LION
In the past 20 years, 30-50% of the wild African lion populations have declined. Humans are a huge threat to these lions because the lion prey/land is diminishing, forcing the lions to eat livestock. The farmers then kill and poison the lions, seeing them as a menace and obstacle. The spread of disease from domestic animals and hunting for sport in many countries also plays a role of impacting the lion populations. Although human actions have caused many negative effects to the lion population, efforts are being made to reduce the lion-human conflict and conserve lion habitats and their prey. CANADIAN LYNX
The Canadian lynx populations have been declining due to starvation from the lack of prey populations (snowshoe hare) all the lynx need. Trapping of the hares in Canada is causing a direct relationship between the declining trend on both populations, but humans are attempting to control their practice now. JAGUAR
Jaguars are seen to be disruptive by humans, in the case that they are an issue to the domestic cattle. Efforts to get rid of them and hunting them for sport or fur trade is causing the jaguar populations to rapidly decrease. Deforestation is also a major issue as well; the humans are eliminating the habitats of so many organisms. |
Human actions have a huge impact of the ecosystems and balance of ecosystems within this taxa. So many factors like deforestation or illegal hunting are causing the numbers of these cats to get smaller and smaller. Although human action is taken to fight against the negative outcomes people have caused, many of these animals are very vulnerable and the biodiversity of these organisms is influenced.