IELTS Writing Sample

31.Should animals be the friends of people or should they be regarded as the sources of peoples food and clothes? State your positions with your own experience.

Animals, as intimate friends of human beings, are disappearing with an amazing speed on the earth. Biologists and environmental experts point out that if the trend cannot be stopped, human beings will lose their best friends and be confronted with serious deterioration of environment. (44 words)

The coexistence of human beings and animals creates perfect harmony in the world. Recently, I have been deeply impressed by the book by an eleven-year-old French girl named Tippi, who illustrates abundant photographs about wild animals in African tropic forest, depicting the intimateness between animals and people. (47 words)

However, animals are faced with unprecedented threat from human beings. To snatch more profit, many people hunt for animals illegally. Gazelle, an active and innocent animal popular in many countries becomes the target of many hunters just for its soft furs. Elephant has not escaped the adversity of being killed, for ivory is collected as a symbol of fortune by many tycoons. The endangered giant pandas are on the edge of disappearance from the earth because their inhabitance is seriously destroyed by the progress of human civilization. If human beings do not take effective measures to protect animals, our descendants can only see their remains and fossils in museums. What makes it worse is that the biosphere will be damaged immensely and human beings will dwell on a monotonous planet, with no birds singing and flowers scent. (137 words)

To protect animals is to protect us. The destruction of environment is avoidable if human beings can pay more attention to the protection of environment in the process of civilization. In the meantime, the government and the authorities concerned should strengthen the implementation of laws to protect wild animals and crack down on the violators, creating a harmonious atmosphere for our planet. (62 words) (290 words totally)