Bald Eagle

Essay
Bald Eagle
LIN 101

What do you know about the bald eagle? This eagle is one of the important eagles in the United States of America. It is famous in the U.S. because you can see his photo everywhere in the country. For example, you can see it in the money of the U.S; this is big evidence that this eagle is important in the U.S. Because this eagle is important, the U.S. cares about this eagle, and in the early sixties they put it on the list of endangered birds. According to an article in the American Bald Eagle Information, "Public awareness increased, and many states placed the bald eagle on their lists of endangered species in the 1960s and 1970s. Many dedicated individuals and groups worked to make the conservation of eagle a national issue" That means this eagle is important and for all these reasons they find care from the U.S government. Bald eagle is a big bird and has such a beautiful color; it has a white head. Moreover, the bald eagle lives close to the lakes, seacoasts and rivers, because in this area the bald eagle can find the food from the water such as the fish, and can find the long tree to build the nest. For the importance of this eagle I will talk about the way we can fix this problem. There are many things we can do to save the bald eagle from being endangered. Shooting eagles must stop, we must save the bald eagle from global warming and stopping cutting trees are important for the eagle. If we find any way to fix those entire three problems we can save the bald eagle from beings endangered.
First, shooting eagles must stop, hundreds of animals have become endangered in the last few years and the main reason is the shooting. Shooting has become easy because there are many new and modern kinds of guns. For those reasons shooting is one of the big problems that face the eagle. Many people shoot the eagle for many reasons, such as selling the feathers and talons to the other people, and this reason made the bald eagle one of the endangered birds. For this reason we need to find a different way to stop people from shooting the bald eagle. First, every state should make a law to save the eagle. For example, they should make a law that if anyone shoots a bald eagle, he will go to jail for a month and pay a fine of $2000. Second, everyone who buys the feathers and talons of the bald eagle will go to jail, because that means you help people to shoot the bald eagle to sell it for you, and this is illegal. I think if we make this rule we can make the people stop shooting the bald eagle. Third, stop selling guns to the people who don’t follow the rule of the shooting. Therefore, we need to stop shooting the bald eagle by law.

Second, the weather changing makes a big problem in the animal’s life at this time. Every animal needs a different kind of environment to live in. Some of them need the cold weather and others need warm weather. We should save the bald eagle from global warming because will affect the food resources of the bald eagle. There are different points that if we do them it can help. First, we should reduce the carbon in our planet, because carbon is one of the things that cause global warming. Carbon affects the ozone and this will cause global warming. We can plant trees to reduce the carbon because trees will take carbon and give us the oxygen. That means planting a tree will help us to reduce the carbon. Second, we should use the natural gas. If we use natural gas it will help us to reduce the carbon because natural gas will not make any kind of carbon or any kind of air pollution. Natural gas doesn’t contain any carbon. I think if we start do these points it will help to reduce the global warming in the future. In conclusion, we need to save the bald eagle from the global warming by those points.


Third, stopping cutting trees and using DDT is important for the bald eagle. Cutting trees will threaten the bald eagles life. Is not a good thing to cut trees to develop the cities without any care about the bald eagle. For this reason and many different reasons that cause the threat to the bald eagle I think we can find solution for this problem. First, stop cutting tree by law; if any city makes a law that says no one can cut any tree without making a report to the city office, it will be breaking for the law and you will go to jail. I think no one will try to cut trees anymore. Second, the residents also need to work hard to save the environment for the bald eagle, because if they see any development in the place of the bald eagle they need to be against this work. And we can plant a new tree everywhere. Moreover, there is other cause that affects the bald eagle, which is DDT. DDT is used in farms to kill bugs? This substance affects the bald eagle by moving to the water supply and going into fish. The bald eagle feeds on fish and when he eats the fish that causes problems to him. Also, it causes genetic problems. All those things affect the bald eagles life and make it endangered. “In 1972 the United States ban DDT. Many countries followed suit, although DDT is still used in some parts of the world. Lead poisoning caused by ingesting shot is another hazard to the bald eagle”. That means the DDT is really a problem for the bald eagle. For those reasons DDT must be fought by the government and organizations. For example, we can stop using the DDT and make a warning for the farmer that if they use the DDT they will be in trouble. Also we can use other kinds of chemicals to kill the bugs because if we can find another kind of chemical, it will help to save the bald eagle. In conclusion, we need to stop cutting tree and using DDT because if we stop it we will save the bald eagles life from endanger.

Finally, bald eagle faces threats from different things. For this reason we need to find a solution and we need to work hard together to stop this threat. For example, we should stop shooting bald eagle, because this is one of the big problems that face the bald eagle. And we can find different ways to save the bald eagle from shooting. Second, reducing the global warming is important for the bald eagle because global warming affects the food resource. And the last thing we need is to stop cutting trees, because cutting trees affects the nesting for the bald eagles. And we can stop it in many ways; for example, by law, residents need to work plant new trees and stop using DDT. All those things can help to protect the bald eagle.

References:
American Bald Eagle Information (2007, June, 28). Status of the bald eagle. Retrieved Octuber 16, 2009 from http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/