Which of the following is a growing threat to animals that are believed to be critical to the success of natural remedies?
competition for resources
disease and illness
poaching by hunters
increase in predators

Option C, poaching by hunters

Explanation:

All the other threats except the one mentioned in option C “poaching by hunters” are natural processes and thus they occur to balance the ecosystem. While poaching is an induced activity of limitless killing of animals by humans  

Unrestricted poaching has not only disturbed the ecological balance (by interrupting food chains) but also led to the extinction of several species. Therefore poaching must be avoided to save animals that are critical to success of natural remedies

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.