Are We Stupid?
During the last 40 years, we mankind have lost 60% of our lions, zebras and giraffes. When added to the already known rapid decline in numbers of the great ape and Gorilla it paints a very bleak picture of the care, or lack of care we give to the wildlife with whom we share this planet.
These animals are now contained within the huge national parks such as Serengeti, Tanzania and masai masai in Kenya. In the east of Africa the situation is even more depressing with losses of up to 85% of these animals of the jungle.
The losses are blamed upon illegal hunters operating within these protected areas and the fact that these countries have neither the resources nor manpower to effectively police these huge tracts of land.
Surely the wealthier countries of the first world should be doing more financially to help in the preservation of these noble animals in what are effectively the last huge inhabitable areas of wilderness on planet earth. Practically all the wild mammals of Europe and the Americas have been eradicated, so this could well be our last chance.
Can you imagine a world without these splendid creatures? Are we the human race completely incapable of living in any harmonious way with any of the millions of life forms that inhabited planet earth? Will we in time sterilise planet earth, remove, or destroy all wildlife? It is a very scary thought.
Terrence Aubrey,
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