endangered animals

My animal is the Point Arena Mountain Beaver. Unlike most beavers, it only lives in California usually in scrub thickets on the north facing hills, mountains, or slopes but instead of building dams or lodges it builds burrows! They are brown with a paddle-like tail. Their feet are like ping-pong rackets and webbed, their front paws are much smaller causing them to be very slow on land. The beavers may be slow on land, but they are very fast in water. Their young are born in December, when the baby beavers are brought into the water they can swim within hours.
The Point Arena Mountain Beaver lives in only California on northern facing slopes in burrows. It eats tree bark and sometimes roots. In California you are most likely to find them in scrub thickets and forests. If you want to see one, don't get to close or they will run away and go back into their burrows. They're shy!
The Point Arena Mountain Beaver is suited to it's environment because it carries its main food source, water, bark, and roots. When a beaver is cutting down a tree it is having its lunch! Some people think a beaver knows what way a tree is going to fall but they don't, if the tree gets too thin they just run for their lives!
The Point Arena Mountain Beaver is endangered because of loss of habitat. Its numbers are shortening because of California's growing population. Loggers and paper factories cut down trees every day for houses and paper products. Moving them out of their natural habitats could be fatal.
Most people do not know that all beavers are endangered. After centuries and centuries of hunting them their numbers are growing smaller. At one time beavers were almost extinct at one time! You can still buy beaver goods today! Luckily many people are saving forests which are beavers' homes. Saving of the forests is helping the beaver.

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Written by (geschreven door):
Hilary D