I love animals a lot. I think they are real friends and make our life interesting and enjoyable. Domestic animals make us responsible and caring. But I am also crazy about wild animals. They are so independent, graceful and handsome.
Unfortunately today we can not see all the animals have been ever existed. Some of them have died many years ago and we can only see the pictures in the books. And there are animals today that are in danger. Scientists say some of them can disappear even tomorrow. I believe this is happening because of us.
For example everyone knows bisons. These huge and interesting animals today live in reserves and they are protected by conservationists. The weight of an adult bison is about 610 kg. In Russia we have only 600 beings. That’s why today biscuit n and hundred other animals are in a Red Book. Here you can find all species are endangered.
Another endangered animal is dhole. They are dangerous, but still they are part of our world. Also I can mention steller sea lion, Siberian tiger, forest dormouse, Amur leopard and snow leopard. Every year the number of these animals grows. And not only in Russia, but animals of other countries need to be protected.
Scientists say that around 40% of all organisms are likely to become extinct soon.
The reason of extinction is people and our actions. People want to buy and sell teeth, skin, fat of animals. We are also crazy about hunting and fishing. Pollution destroys hundreds species of animals and plants every year all around the world.
We have to think today what we will save for our children and grandchildren. Maybe hares and arctic foxes will be endangered species in 20-50 years, only because now we want to have beautiful clothes made of their skin.
Kanysh Imantaevich Satpaev - geologist, the pioneer of numerous deposits of mineral resources in Kazakhstan, the scientist, the first President of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan.
Kanysh Satpayev was born on 12 April 1899 in Bayanaul district of Pavlodar oblast. His father was a nomad, but knew Arabic, could read and write, remembered by heart verses from the Koran. He was even elected Biy - generic judge. He possessed a rare memory, loved to tell stories, fairy tales. Kanysh Imantaevich always remembered with gratitude his father.
In infancy Satpayev was not by Kanysh. He was given the name of Abdul-Gani. Mom started to call the baby Gani, then another kinder - Ganesh. When the boy went in Russian-Kazakh school's first teacher wrote a new student in Russian way - Kanysh. Under this name he became known worldwide. After school he entered the pedagogical Seminary, then at the mining faculty of the Tomsk technological Institute.
K. Satpayev was irrepressible person: constantly aspired to knowledge, interested in everything new and unexplored and not only in his chosen profession of a geologist. In his youth he was a textbook algebra, collected works of folk art. He was interested in archeology, investigated stone sculptures, rock drawings, architectural monuments. An important finding is the slab with the inscription Timur found near ridge Ulytau mountain slope of Altynshoky. Now this plate is in one of the halls of the Hermitage.
The future academician, a geologist by profession, had deep knowledge in the Humanities. In 1927 he published the book "Er " Edige"masterpiece of oral national creativity. On his initiative was started two-volume edition, and then a multivolume history of Kazakhstan, the collected works of T. Valikhanov in five volumes.
Most of K. Satpayev loved travel on boundless lands of Central Kazakhstan, revealing their secrets. Every geologist wants to open the treasure which for a long time keeps the earth. Dreams K. Satpayev came true: manganese ore deposits Naizatas and Jazdy, open K. I. Satpayev a fully ensured in the years of the great Patriotic war the needs of ferrous metallurgy of Urals mountains and Siberia.
"Reason and hammer" - this motto international geologists. Satpayev this motto not enough words of love for his people and for his native land.
Famous historical episode meeting Kanysh Satpayev with Winston Churchill, the famous English Prime - Minister-Minister. When U. Churchill presented heroic statue of the Kazakh, he inquired:
- All Kazakhs as good as You?
My people above me decently and with dignity replied Kanysh Imantaevich.
His name was known and immortalized in the names of streets, universities not only in his native land, but also in space. In the vastness of the Universe, at the distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth makes his eternal progress planet 2402 "Satpayev". In his honour called new mineral "Satpaeva". In the 100-year anniversary of the Scientist, academician, the first President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR on the decision of UNESCO 1999 was declared the year of Kanysh imantaevich Satpaev.