We are not serious about saving Wildlife/Environment
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Swapnashis mukherjee said:
8 years ago
Being serious about saving nature/wildlife not only means being active in social media and showing sympathy about the degradation of environment and destruction of wildlife. Everyone has to come forward and should think own-self as a part of nature. The government should not compromise anything regarding the environment pollution controls and rules should be strict.
The illegal poaching, killing of animals for their body parts can't be stopped until the demand is stopped. People using illegal animal products (like tiger skin, elephant tusk, rhino horn) should not be forgiven.
The illegal poaching, killing of animals for their body parts can't be stopped until the demand is stopped. People using illegal animal products (like tiger skin, elephant tusk, rhino horn) should not be forgiven.
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Rajesh said:
1 decade ago
Conservation of wildlife has become difficult because of industrial revolution, increasing real estate activities. But these are the effects not the cause because industrial revolution and increasing real estate activities are just trying to meet the current requirement of increasing population. I think we can solve or at least reduce this problem by controlling our increasing population.
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Haritha...Devi said:
7 years ago
Very good morning my dear friends.
The main thing for leaving this message is nowadays due to more population people are cutting down the forest and they are making our environment bad not only that many of the industries are also the main cause for this pollution so people should plant at most a plant even once in a year for our future generations please don't kill the plants for your happiness try to plant a try for your future generation.
The main thing for leaving this message is nowadays due to more population people are cutting down the forest and they are making our environment bad not only that many of the industries are also the main cause for this pollution so people should plant at most a plant even once in a year for our future generations please don't kill the plants for your happiness try to plant a try for your future generation.
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Ricktam said:
1 decade ago
Yes I do agree with this. Actually we are the only reason responsible for this. In this fast paced life we are so busy that we don't about our environment. Today everything comes in our door step, so we become so lazy that even if the dustbin is present in front of us still we throw the waste anywhere on the road. We are using private vehicles although public transport is present there. One home should be sufficient for everyone but still we are purchasing plots, flat etc in different state, but we never think that a instead of plot and flat if we plant some trees there then it will better for all of us.
Due to lack of trees Global warming is increasing everyone needs AC, Fridge etc which cause AIR pollution as well as electricity consumption and we are getting this electricity from coals and some non renewable resources. I think the best solution is we should use renewable resources as much as possible, use public transport whenever possible, don't throw the waste here and there rather use dustbin. Try to be natural and try to equipped with nature. THANK YOU.
Due to lack of trees Global warming is increasing everyone needs AC, Fridge etc which cause AIR pollution as well as electricity consumption and we are getting this electricity from coals and some non renewable resources. I think the best solution is we should use renewable resources as much as possible, use public transport whenever possible, don't throw the waste here and there rather use dustbin. Try to be natural and try to equipped with nature. THANK YOU.
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Samar said:
1 decade ago
The present popular mindset points to a very disturbing and disappointing feature which, inter alia, consists of a conspicuous apathy and callousness in so far as issues involving protection or conservation of wildlife or saving environment are concerned. This is terribly a unique trend in the third world countries and particularly in the Indian subcontinent. This is despite the existence of a plethora of statutes and legislations and the consistent rise of environmental activism over the last few decades.
Environmental consciousness is a subject which requires an awareness level that is not easily obtainable in a country like India where, in general, the educational level of the masses is abysmally low. However, the tradition and heritage of the country has placed empathy for other creatures and reverence to the 'Mother Earth' as a very high ideal to be followed in the day to day life. Yet, through centuries this noble value has been watered down thanks to endless waves of alien cultures invading this ancient land from across its cultural borders.
In more recent past, this land has been subjugated to a mighty foreign power which has been responsible for tremendous loot and plundering of its natural resources with an utter disregard for its fragile and sensitive environment. This mindless exploitation of nature has cast such an abominable indifference and cruelty in the mindset of the Indians as regards wildlife as well as general environmental matters that hitherto they have failed to come out of that mental bondage and slavery. This has been the case in spite of the influence of the personalities like Tagore and Gandhi.
After independence the situation has not changed at all. With the pursuit of a goal of economic development that imbibed the models of the west relying on heavy industries, the concerns over environmental safety only occupied a back seat, if at all. It only as late as 1972, when the first international summit conference on environment took place at stockholm, the political authority of the land felt some need to do something in this regard. Hence, the introduction of a few statutes on forests and wildlife.
Even since then, the scenario did not change much; however, in the meantime the nation had witnessed the initiation of a new brand of movement in older Gandhian fashion, one notable amongst such was the Chipko movement carried out in the kumaon region of the Himalayas. The later years also experienced new waves of such movements and emergence of personalities who took leading roles in them. The silent valley movement was notable among them. But sadly enough, the momentum was candidly lacking and soon the public life was getting the bad and undesired effects of such callous attitude and mindless and reckless negligence and utter disregard of social commitments and responsibilities of the big business, politicians, bureaucrats and above all, people in general. And no wonder the nation had to pay a hefty price very soon as one of the fiercest industrial mishaps in the history the environmental disasters all over the world shook the nation on the 3rd December, 1984 at Bhopal, the capital city of the state of Madhya pradesh.
However, it appeared that the nation had learnt a very little lesson from a disaster of such an enormous magnitude as continuous negligence and culpable carelessness had got to be a routine affair though efforts to curb this disturbing trend also gained strength with regularity thanks to the guts and initiatives of people like Medha Patekar, Vandana Shiva, Anil Agarwal etc. And the culmination of such efforts could be experienced through the events like the Narmada bachao Andolon which captured public attention and sympathy. With the onset of economic liberalisation more emphasis has been given to GDP growth and thus sacrificing, inter alia, environmental safeguards. It is, thanks to the efforts of the Environmentalists and the activists and the role sometimes played by the judiciary that all has not been lost by now.
Yet, the country has witnessed few major environmental disasters during the last decade ; not only India but also the neighbouring countries in this sub-continent have suffered great losses owing to environmental mishaps. One may consider the case of the after-effects of Tsunami in the Indian peninsula which could have been lessened had the mangroves in the coastal areas had been kept in tact; the same could be said in relation to the Mumbai flood in 2005 and the damages resulting from cyclone Aila that ravaged the coastal areas of West Bengal and cyclone Ceder that caused havoc in the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar, the earthquake that ravaged Sikkim a couple of years back, one of the main reasons of which was attributable to the building of dams in the high altitude, the recent cloud bursts in Ladakh and Uttranchal, the devastating flood in Pakistan in the last year, the avalanche in the Sweti river in Nepal etc.
It is not only the sudden disasters but also the chronic climatic changes have been contributing to many factors that may affect our lives slowly but persistently in severe ways (one may consider continual floods, droughts and consequent agricultural damages and consequent food crisis, warming in the atmosphere harming crop productivity, pestilence, health problems due to adverse climate causing lower productivity and thus loss in income and so on). And not only the humans but also the other forms of life will be adversely affected and the resultant effect on the biodiversity will jeopardise the entire web of life in the globe, if it has not already been under threat. One may, therefore, logically wonders what type of growth in economic terms the policy-makers are contemplating and for whose benefits! Will they be able to sustain the temporary gains in the longer-run? It seems, however, that the chance is very bleak.
Unless the present trend is checked or reversed the result will be an utter mess- economically, socially, politically and ecologically. The death-knell for this ancient and true civilisation would then remain only a matter to be awaited.
Environmental consciousness is a subject which requires an awareness level that is not easily obtainable in a country like India where, in general, the educational level of the masses is abysmally low. However, the tradition and heritage of the country has placed empathy for other creatures and reverence to the 'Mother Earth' as a very high ideal to be followed in the day to day life. Yet, through centuries this noble value has been watered down thanks to endless waves of alien cultures invading this ancient land from across its cultural borders.
In more recent past, this land has been subjugated to a mighty foreign power which has been responsible for tremendous loot and plundering of its natural resources with an utter disregard for its fragile and sensitive environment. This mindless exploitation of nature has cast such an abominable indifference and cruelty in the mindset of the Indians as regards wildlife as well as general environmental matters that hitherto they have failed to come out of that mental bondage and slavery. This has been the case in spite of the influence of the personalities like Tagore and Gandhi.
After independence the situation has not changed at all. With the pursuit of a goal of economic development that imbibed the models of the west relying on heavy industries, the concerns over environmental safety only occupied a back seat, if at all. It only as late as 1972, when the first international summit conference on environment took place at stockholm, the political authority of the land felt some need to do something in this regard. Hence, the introduction of a few statutes on forests and wildlife.
Even since then, the scenario did not change much; however, in the meantime the nation had witnessed the initiation of a new brand of movement in older Gandhian fashion, one notable amongst such was the Chipko movement carried out in the kumaon region of the Himalayas. The later years also experienced new waves of such movements and emergence of personalities who took leading roles in them. The silent valley movement was notable among them. But sadly enough, the momentum was candidly lacking and soon the public life was getting the bad and undesired effects of such callous attitude and mindless and reckless negligence and utter disregard of social commitments and responsibilities of the big business, politicians, bureaucrats and above all, people in general. And no wonder the nation had to pay a hefty price very soon as one of the fiercest industrial mishaps in the history the environmental disasters all over the world shook the nation on the 3rd December, 1984 at Bhopal, the capital city of the state of Madhya pradesh.
However, it appeared that the nation had learnt a very little lesson from a disaster of such an enormous magnitude as continuous negligence and culpable carelessness had got to be a routine affair though efforts to curb this disturbing trend also gained strength with regularity thanks to the guts and initiatives of people like Medha Patekar, Vandana Shiva, Anil Agarwal etc. And the culmination of such efforts could be experienced through the events like the Narmada bachao Andolon which captured public attention and sympathy. With the onset of economic liberalisation more emphasis has been given to GDP growth and thus sacrificing, inter alia, environmental safeguards. It is, thanks to the efforts of the Environmentalists and the activists and the role sometimes played by the judiciary that all has not been lost by now.
Yet, the country has witnessed few major environmental disasters during the last decade ; not only India but also the neighbouring countries in this sub-continent have suffered great losses owing to environmental mishaps. One may consider the case of the after-effects of Tsunami in the Indian peninsula which could have been lessened had the mangroves in the coastal areas had been kept in tact; the same could be said in relation to the Mumbai flood in 2005 and the damages resulting from cyclone Aila that ravaged the coastal areas of West Bengal and cyclone Ceder that caused havoc in the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar, the earthquake that ravaged Sikkim a couple of years back, one of the main reasons of which was attributable to the building of dams in the high altitude, the recent cloud bursts in Ladakh and Uttranchal, the devastating flood in Pakistan in the last year, the avalanche in the Sweti river in Nepal etc.
It is not only the sudden disasters but also the chronic climatic changes have been contributing to many factors that may affect our lives slowly but persistently in severe ways (one may consider continual floods, droughts and consequent agricultural damages and consequent food crisis, warming in the atmosphere harming crop productivity, pestilence, health problems due to adverse climate causing lower productivity and thus loss in income and so on). And not only the humans but also the other forms of life will be adversely affected and the resultant effect on the biodiversity will jeopardise the entire web of life in the globe, if it has not already been under threat. One may, therefore, logically wonders what type of growth in economic terms the policy-makers are contemplating and for whose benefits! Will they be able to sustain the temporary gains in the longer-run? It seems, however, that the chance is very bleak.
Unless the present trend is checked or reversed the result will be an utter mess- economically, socially, politically and ecologically. The death-knell for this ancient and true civilisation would then remain only a matter to be awaited.
(26)
Shwetha said:
1 decade ago
The main reason for decrease in wildlife is that deforestation. By deforestation we may extend the place for humans but actually we are increasing the chance of unsafe so that animals can enter cities which we find quite common these days. We need to preserve wildlife by planting trees and creating awareness among the people by creating organisations and camps. The use of plastic bags need to be reduced.
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Shabbir Hussain said:
2 decades ago
If we don't stop saving wildlife environment. Next generation may watch animals in documentary or videos only.
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Andy Anu said:
8 years ago
Hello everyone.
I am Andy. Yes we are not at all serious about our environment because we are cutting trees and making papers for exams purpose. I think it's better to stop descriptive exams upto 9th class and better to conduct online examinations in order to protect our trees and to train children's brain.
A student should learn concept by his own brain not by byhearting process and presenting that In the paper.
I am Andy. Yes we are not at all serious about our environment because we are cutting trees and making papers for exams purpose. I think it's better to stop descriptive exams upto 9th class and better to conduct online examinations in order to protect our trees and to train children's brain.
A student should learn concept by his own brain not by byhearting process and presenting that In the paper.
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Kapil Rathore said:
2 decades ago
Saving the Wildlife/Environment is a major concern, because some species (animals and birds) were lost their existence or many are struggling, Why? the first reason arises in our mind is disturbance in our Environment, and only human beings are responsible for such disturbances.
Human beings (we peoples) are obviously not serious about the pollutions, harmful raw materials and chemicals which is freely spreading in air as well as water. Such kind of harmful things causes the wild animals, birds, fishes are continuously struggling to survive for existence.
Tell me how many of you are actively participating to reduce the pollution or trying to save the wildlife. How selfish the humans are, If they requires drinking water then they deploye water filters but such things are not possible for wildlife's, so be aware.
Human beings (we peoples) are obviously not serious about the pollutions, harmful raw materials and chemicals which is freely spreading in air as well as water. Such kind of harmful things causes the wild animals, birds, fishes are continuously struggling to survive for existence.
Tell me how many of you are actively participating to reduce the pollution or trying to save the wildlife. How selfish the humans are, If they requires drinking water then they deploye water filters but such things are not possible for wildlife's, so be aware.
(25)
Sumit said:
1 decade ago
I agree with my that we still not serious about Wildlife/ Environment. We all that life really difficult or not possible with environment. Now the time has came when we start thinking practically on this issue otherwise our earth will no more.
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