Fabiola Suarez
Save the Little Friends!
In Florida, United States people love to be in nature, hiking in a natural park or reserves, camping and taking care of these beautiful places. However, it is incredible that a lot of people ignore how human life can rely on little creatures as bees or butterflies that are present not only in natural parks, but around of people every day and it is more incredible that human beings don’t try to save these endangered species. So, why are these little species in danger? and what is going to happen if they disappear? While state or national laws protect big species as Florida’s panther and Florida’s black bear from hunting, the little species before mentioned are being seen as less important or something out of the schedule.
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It seems to me that bees and butterflies need more protection and the actual laws should be updated considering the latest studies about this matter. Although change the laws is a big step forward, there should be a real law enforcement to the fulfillment of those laws. I think government and organizations for the environment protection could do some campaigns in the schools, social media and through posters. In my opinion farmers and consumers should require to pesticide industry to change the chemical composition of their products, considering that those products impact bees, butterflies and the human health too. People must regard that less bees and butterflies, means less food on the table.
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On the other hand, personally I think that every family should have a garden with several kinds of flowers. It is because bees and butterflies need variety of plants for supply they food needs and do an effective pollination of the plants. In my view local communities can meet and organize the plantation of flower gardens in every city and town. In fact, as far as I am concerned plant flowers without the use of pesticides is possible and better for insects, human beings and to keep the quality of the soil. Besides, all things considered I think every person should work for the improvement of the environment not using insecticides at home and trying to use natural solutions as natural extracts and oils that help to keep insects in the garden and outside of the house.
Finally, bees and butterflies are important for the pollination of the plants that produce the food we eat every day. These insects are being killed by pesticides and insecticides that contain chemicals that affect also the human health through the contamination of products as honey and wax. It is clear that change the laws and their reinforcement to the fulfillment of these is essential. Additionally, I think people can get organized and plant flowers in a communal garden, as well as each family must have a garden with different kind of flowers offering a variety of food to bees and butterflies. I think also that is important look for a natural repellents as natural extracts or oils that are not going to kill the insects or contaminate our food.
Feedback
By Astrid Garnica
I have
reviewed your essay, and I like the way you present your arguments to convince
the reader of the seriousness of this problem.
Regarding
the environmental problem that you face, I think that pesticides and
insecticides can cause a lot of damage in living beings, although there is a
great contrast since it is used to prevent the plantations from being damaged
or certain pests to end up with the crops, the truth is that it ends up
affecting beings as defenseless as the butterflies, of which I consider the art
of nature, because of the variety of colors and figures that they have in their
wings.
By Liliana Calambaz
Fabiola about your essay, personally, I think that there is no doubt that butterflies and bees keep a key function in the plants´ pollination, therefore they help to preserve flora in the word. I agree with you, one way to help them may be if people have a garden with several species of flowers and perhaps if farmers stop spraying with chemicals which are harming the natural cycles of these bugs. Unfortunately, these actions couldn't be enough to conserve them because effects of climate change have caused many species of butterflies to be extinct, and probably, other species may become disappear. I am wondering: are we really addressing their problems in an integrated manner when we address the apparent symptoms instead of attacking the many common causes of these very diverse issues? Because nature is our life-support and we are destroying it with our bad actions.
By Luis Serrano
Fabiola, let me tell you that I just have read your essay, and I would like to mention that the tittle of your essay “Save the Little Friends” catches immediately the reader’s attention, in fact in the introduction there are a good arguments utilizing logic and reason to show that one idea is more legitimate than another idea, the comparison about the black bear toward bees is a good positions to defend your arguments; and of course the two questions in this part of the essay allow me to think and reflect about it, especially the last one; What is going to happen if bees disappear? This would be a nice persuasive topic sentence, it attempts to persuade me to adopt a certain point of view or take a particular action.
Otherwise all of your paragraphs are well connected coherently and logically; In general your essay is very interesting and I think that is ok, keep working hard!
By Paola Mora
What a great title for your job. In my view, it's necessary look for natural fungicides, or alternative pesticides. In my home for example, we have a small vegetable garden, and my mom fumigate with insecticides made for her with other plants, she fertilize plants with organic fertilizer, and even use ash for protecting the plant of ants. I know it is a small step in this work, because I live in a farm and there we use chemical fertilizer yet, but we also use coffee pulp as fertilizer, and other things are changing too.
We need to think in others, not only in people, but also in animals, in plants, insects, and many living creatures, because of them depend our survival, they are the most important creatures in the world, they maintain in balance the planet.
Butterflies and bees reproduce the wonderful flowers that we see every day, all of this is thanks to them, we need more of them than they of us. I saw a lot of butterflies so pretty, their colors, they are magnificent, they are necessary and if we don't care of them, they could disappear.
As a final comment, please review the references in your work. There is a mistake in the way how you write the date.
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References
Bee Informed. (2017, August 28). Colony Loss 2016-2017: Preliminary Results. Retrieved from Bee Informed: https://beeinformed.org/results/colony-loss-2016-2017-preliminary-results/
Enviroment Florida. (n.d.). No Bees, No Food. Retrieved from Enviroment Florida: https://environmentflorida.org/programs/fle/no-bees-no-food
Enviroment Florida. (n.d.). Save the Monarch. Retrieved from Enviroment Florida: https://environmentflorida.org/programs/fle/save-monarch
Fears, D. (2015, February 9). The monarch massacre: Nearly a billion butterflies have vanished. Retrieved from The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/09/the-monarch-massacre-nearly-a-billion-butterflies-have-vanished/?utm_term=.55ca42e92da2
Spivak, M. (2015, March 15). What will happen if the bees disappear? Retrieved from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/17/opinion/spivak-loss-of-bees/
Tomeu. (2013, October 27). Speakout Advanced p 27. Expressing Opinions. Extra Vocabulary. Retrieved from English Advanced 2: http://englishadvanced2.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Speakout%2002.3
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