This casestudy is about the endangered animals of the Amazon. As I have stated before, the Amazon is home to millions and millions of animals. Some of those animals have yet to be discovered! Most of the endangered or extinct animals are going or gone because of all the clear cutting and the all the people invading the rainforest. There are close to 3 million different species in the rainforest, and only about 10 000 of those have been discovered and studied. For this case study I will focus on the animals that are in the most danger such as the Tiger, and the Tarantula.
The Tiger, is an amazing creature. One of the most beautiful animals/felines to walk this earth. At the moment the Tiger is walking a very hard and long road of life. All due to the fact that it's home is being distroyed as we speak. The tiger has been threatend for quite some time now. Some organizations have been trying desprately to save them, but to no evale. Tigers are not only indangerd in the Amazon rainforest, there are other rainforests around the world that have depleting tiger populations, as this map clearly states.
So as you can see by the map, that as we urbanized so many of our countries, the smaller and smaller the Tiger popluation becomes. These are beautiful animals that we are destroying! Would you really like to see this:
animal being killed off by the hour?! Tigers are in great danger also because of the fact that many people use there bones as certain remedies, that supposedly work. Also, when the tiger is killed just for his bones the meat and the skin is often left if it is not to the liking of the hunter. So the killing of the tigers becomes even worse when a tiger is killed and not even fully used, if it is needed of course. Killing tigers for furs is horrible, and is also a big factor. In the end it all comes down to humans. US. We clear-cut, we hunt, we kill. We are the ones destroying the tiger and it's habitat. Not only in the Amazon but everywhere!! Some tigers are lucky enough to be brought to a zoo where they are cared for and looked after day by day, while others have to continue their long and hard journey through the world we have now created for them, not the one they first came to. 
Help save the tigers, or see them disappear before your eyes.
TIGER
LINKS
WWF Canadian Association to Protect Tigers
The Tarantula Diaries........
You might think that a turantula, just a little bug, could be indangered, but actually they are. The habitat in which they live in is being destroyed. Tarantulas, are not very small spiders, they are in fact very very very very very large. ( Sir, you're lucky I did this project, I have a very bad arachnephobia!!!) Below is a picture of a tarantula from the amazon:
So as you can see the tarantula is a very complex, and very interesting arachnide (however disgusting it is). It has a very interesting life. Although at the moment that very life is threatened by us clear cutting the forest in which it lives! The same goes for the tiger. It is a very beautiful creature. It has been around for centuries, and then we go and destroy the land that was officialy theirs! We need to start conserving more instead of taking and ruining........
See, very large! They are venomus, but very rarely bite humans, unless they are scraed enough, and you continue to bug them. The spider lives in burrows on the rainforest floor, digging its own and using existing tunnels and underground chambers vacated by other animals. Burrows are usually found on gentle slopes or embankments on the forest floor near water.It's feet are used as digging tools to excavate the lair. As it digs the earth away, it mixes the soil with its silk, which binds the loose earth, which it can then push out as lumps. Tunnels range from two to six feet in length.Fear of tarantulas is inspired partly by its appearance eight eyes, legs that could comfortably span a large plate, and the fangs, up to one inch long. (exactly why I'm scared of them!!!) 
The venom glands are the largest of any spider. But its reputation for harming humans is unproven.The tarantula doesn't always win.
( picture of spider defending itself) Its two most successful enemies are man, and a pepsis or spider wasp. This wasp feeds on nectar and small insects but it's not averse to tarantula as a food for its larvae.The wasp stands on the threads of silk emanating from the spider's burrow, enticing it outside. Once locked in combat, the pepsis wasp flips onto its back, and seeks the spider's soft abdomen, to deliver its sting. If successful, the tarantula is paralysed, unable to move. This state can last for several months.The spider wasp then drags the helpless tarantula back into the spider's burrow. It lays its own eggs on the tarantula's body, then seals up the tarantula's burrow, effectively entombing the spider in its own home. Over the following weeks, the wasp's egg develops, on a live but immobile larder of fresh food. Each parasitic grub eats away until it is ready to emerge from the tarantula's tomb as an adult digging its way out after pupating. So as you can see humans aren't the only cause of tarantula deaths. It may be a big spider, but it won't always win. 
Dead spider in a mans hand.