My Speech about Animal Cruelty!!

 In Capernaum last term we were writing persuasive writing which we also used as speeches this is my one about animal cruelty! 

Hi my name is Rebecca. 

Did you know that on the other side of the world, innocent animals are losing their lives for our unnecessary needs. Do you know how many animals get poached a year? So many different animal populations are dropping by thousands! Daily poached animals are left to die that spread diseases like Ebola and SARS.

Around the world, especially in Africa innocent animals, mainly rhinos and elephants are being killed by poachers for a traditional Chinese medicine using rhino horns and elephant tusks. The process starts with a tranquilliser gun and the poachers will surround the animal and tranquillise it and they chop off the horn or tusk, leaving the animal to bleed to death. Did you know the last white rhino just went extinct in the wild. Luckily as of March 2018 there are only two female white rhino left. They are protected in the OL Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. 

It is unbelievable how many rhinos and elephants get poached every year! In Africa over 1028 rhinos and about 375 elephants were poached in 2017! This has been happening for decades and if no one stands up soon enough all of these amazing creatures will be gone. There is good news that poachers will be punished for their crimes. In the United States, two businessmen will now serve time in prison and pay hefty fines for rhino horn trafficking. Do you think this is worth slaughtering a rhino?

Poached animals that are left to die can spread diseases to humans like Ebola and SARS. Giving us horrible symptoms like aches, pains, sore throats and fevers. The animals are killed to cure us when we are sick. But instead we are just getting unwell from them.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that poaching animals is not right and should be banned because of how cruel the process is, and so many different animal populations are dropping and we are catching horrible diseases from the animal’s dead body.

More people need to stand up and help these poor creatures!

Thank you everyone for your time, and I hope this changes your mind about animal cruelty.