Pros And Cons Of Terrestrial Wildlife

The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years . Creatures across the land, rivers, and the seas are destroyed as humans killed them for food in unsuitable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats.

Wildlife management is one of the many branches within Natural Resource Management. This branch specifically dedicates its time and resources to doing exactly what it sounds like- managing wildlife and the habitat they live in. However, they do this through not directly manipulating the organisms and habitats, but through the regulations of humans and their activities.It is easier to help animals by controlling human activity than it is to control the animal’s activity. That is why the true focus of wildlife management lies in managing people, not the animals.

In contrast to the upheaval of animals in a development area, humans also make efforts to preserve biodiversity and forests by creating wild life

The scale and pace of change is dramatic; for example, the extinction of species is occurring at around 100-fold pre-human rates4. The population sizes of vertebrate species have, on average, declined by half over the last 45 years5. More than 2.3 million km2 of primary forest has been felled since 20006. About

Conservation of our biodiversity not only demonstrates foresight, it protects the natural resources so vital to our own continued existence. The value of any single species to an ecosystem is immeasurable; the environment will not endure without its species, despite size or niche. These animals are not dispensable. And, they are apt to face extinction in the not too distant future, unless a resolve for their preservation is insisted by the public and enforced by governments internationally.

According to the IUCN World Park Congress (2003), Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) occurs when wildlife resource requirements overlap with those of human populations, creating costs both to communities adjacent to protected areas and the wildlife within them. At present the phenomenon poses a serious challenge to both the human livelihoods and the flora and fauna globally (Berger & McGraw 2007).

In today’s world, hardly any species of wildlife become extinct from natural causes. Europeans hunt animals to such an extent that we classify it as overhunting. We destroy their habitat, and introduce other animals that are a threat to endangered animals or are competition for resources and food. Habitat destruction is the greatest threat to both animals and plants.

Both Samsara and The Spell of the Sensuous provide depict vivid and strong depiction of the environment. For instance, Samsara provides some landscapes, time-lapse cityscapes, deserts, destroyed houses, crafts made by the Buddhist monks, all those pictures are shot extremely specific. In addition, Samsara and The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram both discuss about the interaction with the nature. They contrast the modern countries with “undeveloped world”

From the beginning of human civilization to the present wild animals have caused issues in ecotones. An ecotone is the place where two different types of communities meet. In this paper, I will be talking about the ecotones of human civilization and wildlife. People that hike and bike trails in Durango, Colorado often run into animals that are not afraid of people. In this essay the topics that will be discussed that relate to human and wildlife relationships in an ecotone are, the history of human-wild animal interaction, problems associated with this interaction, and issues with wild animals in ecotones.

These pigeons or rats which are seen as pests squatting our territory, should have the right to live among humans and be considered as “Denizens” with rights such as secure residency, (Donalson and Kymlicka, 2011). However this territorial issue does not only include urban areas and animals. What about the flora? By recognizing the intrinsic rights of all beings, humanity would challenge its entire traditional geographical perception of the world. Even if humans do not directly inhabit some places, society still has a huge impact on them through pollution or deforestation or by simply using natural materials to build their own places. These “shadow places” (Plumwood, 2008) society uses are the natural habitats of many species that have the intrinsic right to live there. By recognizing the sovereignty of wild animals in their habitats as well as respecting wildlife, its flora and fauna in all places, society would have to turn into an much more eco-conscious community. In my opinion, based on Val Plumwood’s text “Has democracy failed ecology?” (1996), becoming an eco-conscious community, respecting the intrinsic rights of all living beings, even the ones society used to consider as inferior, would have a huge impact on capitalism and liberalism. Indeed, liberalism based on the interested of “privileged citizens” and on the “persistence of radical inequality and oppression” of marginalized groups, would not function anymore. Consequently, a real democracy – and not the liberal democracy Plumwood describes in her text – could flourish from the recognition of all living beings’ natural innate rights, following David Gulpilil’s idea that “We are brothers and sisters of the world. Doesn’t matter if you’re bird, snake, fish, kangaroo: One Red

My amour with nature started when I was 6. I was fascinated by the sights, smells and sounds of the jungle. I still remember vividly the sight of a dancing peacock and gamboling herd of deer made me clap my hands with glee. Thus, was ingrained in me the foundation of ardor for nature and its denizens. As I grew older , this environment became more and more meaningful to me. My brief sojourns here every year has had a positive effect on my personality. Being a seeker of thrills, the jungle with its ever present dangers titillated my sense of adventure. I also concluded that human and animal life is extremely similar and that we can learn so much from them. I realized how important it was to be a keen observer, to be vigilant in order to survive, because like a predator, challenges set foot in our lives soundlessly and abruptly catching us off guard. Just like how the repercussion of carelessness in a jungle is death, carelessness in our concrete jungle means failure. Both humans and animals adhere to the same law of life - Survival of the

On the other hand, nearly all organisms can exist without humans. There are some exceptions to this, such as endangered species or pets but, in general, most wildlife does not need human presence in order to survive. This is a fact of life and is accepted as an ecological truth. Accepting and understanding our equality with and interdependence on the Earth’s community of life is the first step in adopting the attitude of respect for nature.

Until humans began to domesticate plants and animals about ten thousand years ago, all human societies were hunter-gatherers. Today,only a tiny fraction of the world's populations support themselves and they survive only in isolated, inhospitable areas, and dense rain forests. Given the close relationship between hunter-gatherers and their natural environment,hunting and gathering tribes

Third, as mentioned a few times in this paper, conservationism views “animals as natural resources” for the consumption of humans. Consumption meant literally and figuratively, in that animals are valued for their entertainment value at the zoo for humans to “consume”. In “Constructing Consumables and Consent”, author Cathy B. Glenn discussed “the two common and codependent corporate discursives” in factory farms, yet, also used by conservationists like PNM. First, “doublespeak”, a word of phrase that deliberately obscures language to hide the harmful truth. Stakeholders, like PNM, are pros at coming up with “doublespeak” to conceal the environmental damage they take part it for the continued extraction of coal. Next, the “creation of ‘speaking’ animals to sell products, like the experience of the zoo.

Since the beginning of life itself, some species have lived and prospered while other species have gone extinct never to be seen again by mankind. Because of this, some would claim that extinction is natural and not significantly problematic to the world that we live in. Others, however, understand that due to climate change, habitat loss, and poaching, more and more species are becoming endangered which leads to a chain reaction that can be devastating to ecosystems. Species such as the Chinook salmon, gorillas, tropical sharks, and polar bears are all directly affected by climate change, species such as northern spotted owls, Sumatran tigers, and lemurs are greatly harmed due to habitat loss, and species such as the sea turtle, Javan rhinoceros, African elephant, and the Red-Fronted Macaw are all affected by poaching driving them all closer and closer to becoming extinct.