From year to year the interest to rare endangered animals grows up. Especially rare types of animals deserve great of attention and careful attitude.
Wild animals make that part of the organic world which turns out to be the most vulnerable, and the loss of it is not only real but it may occur in the shortest time. Famous English scientist Gerald Darrell said about the attitude of people to the wild-life: «Our world is as complicated and vulnerable as a spider's web. We may touch a single part of it and all the rest will shake as well. But we not simply touch the web but produce gaping holes in it; we conduct, if it is possible to say, biological battle against the environment». The fauna of our planet is the indivisible system, and the loss of any, the most insignificant at first glance, section leads to serious changes. That is why it is important to save every type of animals. Every kind is unique, interesting and necessary for people and nature.
In spite of understanding this fact, people contaminate and drain rivers and lakes, destroy forests, senselessly kill wild animals. The famous specialists Harper and Allen counted up that for the last twenty centuries hunters and colonists have already destroyed 106 types of large beasts and 139 species of birds. Only in 19 century seventy types of animals became extinct, for the last fifty years-forty types have disappeared!
Today the most well-known species of endangered animals, which are under the threat of complete disappearance, compute a blue whale, a Floridian panther, an arctic bear, a mountain gorilla, a cassowary, an Ussuriisk tiger and a giant panda. Animals disappear as a result of people’s influence on their life. People involuntarily take away their small brothers’ natural places of habitation, theirs fodder sites, cut down forests, cultivate deserts, contaminate seas and atmosphere. As a consequence animals are exterminated as fast as by means of a gun, poison, traps.
Blue whales, for example, die out for innutrition. The destruction of the ozone layer leads to the reduction of the amount, of plankton in the World Ocean, and it turns out to be the main food of whales.
A snow leopard or an ounce used to be called a precious brilliant in a pearl frame of mountains. Rich nomads decorated their clothes with the fur of a leopard- it was considered to be very honorable. As a snow leopard lived in out-of-the-way places, people never hunted this animal earlier those days, but nowadays a great number of ounces are killed as well as herds of mountain goats, morals and roes whom snow leopards hunt.
Trees felling and vigorous activity of poachers become the reason of reduction of the population of mountain gorillas.
A cassowary-the second-large bird in the world living in Australia- dies out today. The reason of considerable decrease in its population is the development of swine-breeding. Pigs ruin nests of birds and destroy their eggs.
The number of Ussurisk tigers decreased tragically in Russia. In 1980s the population of this animal reached its peak. But at the beginning of 1990s the Iron Curtain fell. Borders swung open and Chinese smugglers, ready to buy up the whole taiga, rushed into Russia. Tigers didn't give in without a fight – a great amount of people found their death from teeth and claws of the lawful governor of a taiga. And only in 1994 the World fund of the wild nature came to the Far East with the project of preservation of the Amur tiger. Now the number of the Amur tiger is stabilized at the level of 450 hundred.
Thus, the problem of preservation of wild animals has many moral, esthetic, ecological, genetic, economic and other aspects. Once sports used to need advertizing and encouragement, and hunting literature used to help people to love the beauty of the nature. Those years passed away. Now it is a too wasteful way of love.
A little more time will pass and all humanity will consider so-called sports hunting to be a shameful remnant of wildness and a murder of an animal without need will be punished by the law as strictly as a murder of a person. Any murder, both of a person and an animal, causes a big moral loss, first of all to the one who kills, and to those people who surround him. If it proceeds in such a way there will be no more animals to kill soon, and engineers will have to make hares, deer and wood-grouses of nylon and other chemical substitutes, and then they will let them out into the woods, also nylon.
It is time to introduce proper order on the Earth, to break senseless destruction of wild animals and woods, pollution and withering rivers and lakes! Nowadays protection of nature is not the academic theory but the urgent need.
The main reason for visiting Russia is its unique culture and architecture;they are simply too great to miss seeing! Russia is an amazing and mysterious country. Europe meets here Asia and the West meets the East! You are sure to find lots of entertainments and learn a different way of life. Russian cuisine is very diverse and delicious. However, you should remember that Moscow the capital of Russia is not cheap. Food, transport and services are more expensive there than anywhere else in the country.Russia is of course a lovely place to go to. It has so much to offer as far as world-famous museums, theatres and galleries are concerned. Tourists are usually impressed by numerous churches and cathedrals. There are good tourist factilities in Moscow, St Petesburg and some other large cities. And the metro in Moscow is efficient and rather cheap.However, Russia is not attractive to many tourists for a variety of reasons. Firstly, English is not spoken or understood except in the major cities. Without knowing the Russian language it is difficult to travel in Russia. Then, hotels and train accommodations are below European standards. And in Moscow and many other cities the traffic is heavy and you may stuck in a massive traffic jam.Russian winters are rather severe and if you can't stand cold you'd better not go there in winter time.To conclude Russia is deffinitely worth visiting, because it is one of the most important and influenrial countries in the world. Besides, Moscow is a wonderful city. All foreigners are greatly impressed with the city and its sights. And what is more,where else will you find such beautiful landscapes? The country lies in four climatic zones. There are many national parks in the country, mighty rivers, the deepest in the world lake Baikal and lots of other attractive places where you can relax and have a good time, meet hospitable people and be happy.
Reading is the pleasant and useful part of our life. People like reading. I think so because a lot of books are bought and sold every day in different bookshops and in streets (or: outside) too. Of course, radio and television are more popular among people but books still play an important role for us. Reading enriches our mind. It can satisfy many different demands and literary tastes. It reveals to us its own world of life, which is sometimes cruel or sorrowful and sometimes is joyful or fantastic.
Speaking about reading I can’t help saying about my favourite writer. He is one of the most famous Russian authors of the 19th century – Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov.
His life was momentary and blinding as a gleam of lightning in a stormy sky.
Not having lived till 27 years old, he passed the entire circle of life with flights of inspiration and bitterness of disappointments. He went through many troubles in his life: great success and two exiles, disappointments and love, smoke of battles and intrigues of a high society.. And died in thunderstorm… This is the entire circle.
Just two latest figures changed their places in the dates of his life. But how many emotions were experienced by him and what antagonism of ideas existed in his mind and soul!
I like novels, stories and poems by Mikhail Lermontov very much. Needless to say that the most part of the poems and almost all novels and stories are full of melancholy – this is the particularity of his works.
No doubt, all of us have read his poems at school and of course have got acquainted with “The Hero of Our Time”. In this novel through the heroes Lermontov tried to express his own sense of time and events.
The main character is Grigoriy Alexandrovich Pechorin – an individualist with a conflict in his sole. He disdains a high society and searches for a real affair, where he could apply his skills and his talents, where he could put his soul. But he doesn’t find such an affair and suffers from it.
Pechorin is a deep character. He is like his author, a man who searches for real life, deep feelings, true love and feels useless in his time.
Lermontov never wrote non-fiction. All his compositions are made-up but a great part of them is connected with real events of the 19th and other centuries. There is no humor in his works, they are deep and full of the author’s thoughts. They reflect the problems of the society and make us think. That is why I like them very much and enjoy every minute, reading books by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov.