Wildlife Conservation in India

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

1600-1849: Era of Abundance Americas being settles and Jamestown first settlement in history and abundance of wildlife (Shaw, 316)

Elephant populations suffered a drop in numbers that carried the species into the endangered animals list. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about ten million elephants lived in Africa. Presently, the ten million is reduced to half a million because of illegal hunting and habitat loss. Studies of the population show twenty-two thousand were killed in 2012 and twenty-five thousand in 2011. When comparing the death rate to the natural population growth, there is a possibility the largest mammal on Earth could be extinct soon (Vaughan 1). Because the elephant is the largest animal to walk on land, the greatly increasing human population affects the elephant population first. They live in some regions of the world that have the densest human population which continues to grow, which therefore continuously decreases their own population (Bryner 1). As the human population swiftly increases, the elephant population in turn, decreases. This is so because they cannot cohabitate the same living space. Elephants and humans cannot cohabitate because they would kill each other due to the inability to communicate. About population recovery, the Animal wildlife foundation states, “Populations of elephants- especially in Southern and Eastern Africa- that once showed promising signs of recovery could be at risk due to the recent surge in poaching for the illegal ivory trade”(1). Poaching presents one of the main issues that make recovery so difficult for these animals.

Wildlife is a big part of our environment. It’s a part of our food sources, clothing (wool), even our own entertainment (pets). Prey can be a good food sources for us too. For example deer and cattle, they give us meat. Meat is “the flesh of an animal as food” (dictionary.com). Sheep are great for food and clothing, their meat for food and their wool for clothes. “The fine soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep” (dictionary.com). Animals are a huge portion of everyone’s lives.

When humans first began to roam these lands, they looked to hunting to survive. “Through hunting, man forged a connection with the land and learned quickly that conserving the land went together with maintaining wildlife and their own way of life. In the early 20th century, leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold, shaped a set of ideals that came to be

Many explorers that have gone west have discovered wonderful things. New plants, rivers, mountains and many new creatures were among the things that they discovered. In 1857 when S.H. Hammond writes a book explaining the outdoors as a retreat from everyday life, that was the first time that people started to value our nation's great resources. After this book was published, many other books were published by different authors all saying the same thing. We have to preserve our nation's wildlife for our future generations to enjoy. If we are ignorant and destroy what we have, our nation's lands will never be the same.

Warrant: Humans believe they have authority over the animal kingdom. This means that mankind tries to control what is going in the environment.

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.

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.

An encroachment in the wildlife areas such as national parks has often led to the wild animals escaping from the parks and straying into the areas where human beings stay (Paul, 1986). The resultant effect is that the wild animals end up eating the domestic animals and at times leaving injuries on the human beings they meet on their way. Poaching on wild animals has also had a negative effect on the balance of the ecosystem. Most of the poached animals sooner or later become extinct from the universe thereby creating a problem of natural balancing in the ecosystem (Namara et al.

Which means when you travel to Africa or East Asia the probability to see or experience a ride with an elephant would not happen .

Just imagine life without any elephants, wiped out just like the dinosaurs. In the early 1980’s, there were more than a million reported elephants in Africa. Tragically, during that decade, 600,000 elephants were destroyed for ivory products. Today, conceivably no more than 400,000 elephants remain across the continent. Elephants are facing a very real threat of extinction; In fact, the African elephants are listed on the

Wildlife biology is a field of biology in which land animals are studied. It deals with all animals with backbones and studies individual species of wildlife, their habitats, and surrounding ecosystems (Fitzgerald). It also studies how animals may interact with their ecosystem. Without wildlife biology we would not have extensive knowledge of other animal species, and how they could be linked to humans.

Despite what mankind would like to believe, humans are animals. As multi-celled organisms, we consume other organic matter, change the land for own uses as a beaver would build a dam, and as other mammals, we are all fed breast milk from our mothers when we were young. Yet there is this disconnection and alienation of the human race towards other species. Moreover, through fear of taking action, the convenience provided to us if we simply choose to ignore the environment, and the alienation of other species that are endangered by our actions, the hostile and uncaring attitude of humans towards nature is the core reason for many of the problems in our environment today.

“(i) Assisting in achieving the conservation and survival of species must be the aim of all members of the profession. Any actions taken in relation to an individual animal, e.g. euthanasia or