What is Wildlife conservation?
{{no sources|date=June 2024}} '''Wildlife conservation''' is the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural [[ecosystem]]s. Major threats to wildlife include habitat destruction, degradation, [[fragmentation]], [[overexploitation]], [[poaching]], [[pollution]] and [[climate change]]. The [[IUCN]] estimates that 27,000 species of the ones assessed are at risk for extinction. Expanding to all existing species, a 2019 [[UN]] report on [[biodiversity]] put this estimate even higher at a million species. An increasing number of ecosystems on Earth containing [[endangered species]] are disappearing. To address these issues, there have been both national and international governmental efforts to preserve Earth's wildlife. [[Category:Environmental issues]]