And this is what the Global Goals is doing to help.

The global goals is a society of people that joined this group to solve world problems. Under goal number 13 and 15, the Bobcat has a right to be amongst us.

If you want more information about that:

http://youtu.be/RpqVmvMCmp0

Here are some links if you are more interested in the global goals:

http://www.globalgoals.org/

Http://wethepeople.globalgoals.org

And this is what we can do to help, and what people are already doing to help.

How can we prevent these animals from going extinct? Beginning in 2004, Defenders is coming together with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish Wildlife to track, capture, and put collars on Bobcats in the State of New Jersey in order to determine their movement and the habitats that are important for the Bobcat's survival. This valuable data will help biologists create a protection and management strategy that focuses on preserving the most critical bobcat information and habitat. (www.defenders.com)

This is the reason why Bobcats are endangered

Enough facts about the bobcat, let's get to the part why they are endangered. The reason a lot of them got hunted was for their fur. They got hunted into semi- extinction. Now humans have mostly stopped hunting these animals for their fur, so their populations has grown a little bit. In Mexico, Bobcats are hunted by farmers for fear they kill and eat their sheep. They also are dying because of habitat destruction. Right now there are approximately 725,000 Bobcats left in the world.

These are some facts about the Bobcat

The name of my creature that I am researching is the Bobcat. The scientific name of the Bobcat is Lynx Rufus. Its domain is in the northern states of North America, and down lower, in Mexico. It is one of the top predators of its domain. This amazing animal, like its name, is also related to the Lynx, another top predator of the same domain. Some special adaptations this animal has is it’s thick fur for the freezing winter there in the far north. The habitat of a bobcat widely varies from forests and mountains, to semi-desert and brush land. Bobcats like to live in habitats with lots of vegetation and a lot of prey.

Bobcats are excellent hunters, catching their prey with stealth and patients, then catching their prey with one great leap.(www.defenders.com) The main diet of these animals are small but tricky to catch, like hares and rabbits.

Bobcats are solitary and territorial animals. Female bobcats never overlap each other's territory; males on the other hand might overlap. Territories of females cover up to 5 square miles, males have 25-30 square miles, a lot more than the female bobcats. (www.defenders.com) Their main den is usually a cave or rock shelter, but can be a hollow log, fallen tree, or some other protected place. (Also called the natal den.) An auxiliary den is normally located in less-visited portions of the home range and is often brush piles, rock ledges or stumps. These are also called “shelter dens”.

Bobcat

The animal I am studying is the Bobcat, the scientific name is Lynx Rufus. The reason I choose this animal is because I loved this animal since I was little, nobody else choose it, and because they are an endangered species, there are very little of them in the wild.

Two things I want to know about the animal is how are the international laws protecting these endangered species, what are they doing to help?


Another thing would be is: is their habitat / their pray affecting their population, is it taking part of 

decreasing their population?

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