Submerged Lands

All creatures deserve to live and enjoy the beauty of nature.  We are interdependent with each other and for us to live longer we need to care not only for ourselves, but for others, too.  We need to be considerate with other living creatures and that includes our wildlife.  Wildlife refers to animals that are not raised by humans.  They are not domesticated and if they die will be replaced by others of the same kind.  Most cannot live long beyond their life span.  For their population to grow, we need proper and careful management of their species.

Conservation efforts in wildlife are growing since many are now aware of the danger that man has placed to endanger the existence of our wildlife.  We need to preserve and protect them to ensure that they will continue to exist.  Wildlife conservation is preventive care and a process of analyzing and protecting variation of life forms in the world we live in.  Individuals and organizations are now doing their share in protecting and preserving distinct biological species.

We should not exploit our rainforest so that we can still preserve the endangered species of our wildlife.  These thick evergreen forest or rainforest are often found in tropical regions. If you’ll get the chance to visit one, you’ll surely be amazed of the big trees and wonderful plants where some of the herbal plants are found. These are their habitat that would allow wildlife to live freely and preserve their existence.

One of the conservation efforts in wildlife that the world is promoting nowadays is promoting awareness on the impact of extinction of our wildlife. Proper education has been extended by school personnel’s and teachers. With this many of the youth nowadays even in their young age are doing their own way of helping organizations to gain supports from the society. I’ve read students from all around the globe, sponsoring small booths in schools or in their community to raise funds. For music enthusiast, they also sponsor concerts or small programs in school to raise fund so that they can in their own ways start preserving our ecosystem which in so doing will help conserve our wildlife.

As a concerned citizen, we should encouraged eco-living to every individual.  It is a lifestyle or way of achieving your dreams without affecting the environment.  You can still enjoy life without hurting the environment.  Parents should encourage their children by serving as a good example in the maintenance and proper handling of waste.  Recycling and proper waste management should be thought not only in schools but also in various communities. Conserving our resources, energy and savings as well as self-fulfillment are some of the advantages of eco-living.

You are not only able to inspire others, but you are also able to help the community and our ecosystem as a whole. You are also able to inculcate good values which your children will learn and appreciate. They will surely treasure these values and continue to practice them as they grow old.  Eco-living will help sustain our world to be a better place to live-in.

Wildlife is a word used to describe the non-domesticated living things, mainly animals and plants.  Humans have been trying to domesticate these creatures for the benefits of mankind, which has led to many damaging impacts on environment and the wildlife itself.  Ever since the creation of mankind, human himself has been using the facilities of leather, silk, and fur to wear; Milk, eggs, meat to eat and using bones as weapons; In fact man has been trying to use and apply anything he can get his hands on from the wildlife and in the process the wildlife suffered many losses such as extinction as the basic factor.  Although wildlife destruction is not always responsible for the extinction of a species, but the loss of a certain creature across entire earth is a big problem and dominates all the other problems caused by wildlife destruction, from which there is no return.

The need of the day is to conserve the wildlife as much as possible keeping the human needs balanced with it.  For that purpose, we can apply our knowledge of science and try to stop the damage done to the earth`s biodiversity.  Although the damage done is irreversible, the least we can do is to bring the rate at a minimum if impossible to stop it.  For that very matter we have to consider the basic ecological principles which are mainly the ‘carrying capacity’, ‘succession’ or ‘disturbance’.

There was a need to develop a balance the human health and the wildlife preservation and for that matter the scientists developed eco-health. This is basically looking after the effects of the changing eco-systems’ effects on the human health and its consequences. The scientists are studying the changing and mutating viruses and how the diseases are changing their course of actions.  The advantages of eco-health includes that it is not like a traditional study.

Advantages

• Humans can live a better life by living healthy and preserve the wildlife at the same time.
• New ways could be found out to decrease the rates of epidemics and the organisms that cause them in the first place. They can also be mutated of transformed to produce immunity or the cure to the very disease.
• Eco-health can make us aware of the environmental issues around us and stop the damage we ourselves are causing.  For example, we can switch to hybrid vehicles to reduce air pollution which in turn can decrease the lungs allergies, etc.
• The relationship between ecological sustainability and human health is satisfied.
• Eco-health also advises us to stop changing the landscape around us as the biology of diseases is greatly affected by the environment around us.
• Eco-health will also benefit the wildlife mutually in addition to only humans. For example, if we treat the water at the nearby flowing river, the species of fish living in that river as a habitat will also get the benefit.
• The pest control can be made effective and less threatening to other plants and crops by improving their standards for the betterment of human health.

Wild life is most important gift that Mother Nature has bestowed upon the Earth.  It is our duty to conserve this gift as the rate of deforestation, poaching has increased in alarming rate so we must spread awareness to save the animals from reaching to verge of extinction and keep mother earth green forever.  Having a conservation effort of wild life will not only keep the ecological balance perfect, but will also help mankind to do research and gain knowledge about various life process.  Conservation efforts of wildlife will save the endangered species of wildlife; this can be done by constructing sanctuaries and national park where the wild animals can survive in their natural habitat.  Conservation efforts of wild life are being taken care by various NGO’s from all over the world.  Wild life will encourage the future generation to continue the green heritage of the earth.

Not only wildlife, but the greed of human has its impact on the natural vegetation and forest all over the world.  The rain forests which are the abode of rare birds and animals are now under the threat of deforestation.  Rainforests are also famous because some very useful medicine can be found here.  Rainforest are a natural habitat of various kinds of flora and fauna which is very helpful to do different kinds of research work.  Rainforests also have a great deal of impact on controlling climate as it absorbs carbon dioxide in large amount from atmosphere.

Keeping all these aspects in mind the study of effect of changes in the ecosystem occurred due to careless human act and how it is affecting the human life termed as eco health is very necessary.  Eco health deals with various kinds of disease like asthma, Lyme disease caused due to air and water pollution.  Eco health can be maintained and can be a successful program if physician, ecologists, scientists come together and analyze how the changes in the ecosystem is hampering human health and provide some measures to reduce this harmful effect.

It is the duty of all people throughout the world to encourage eco living to save our ecosystem. Eco living encourages to reduce the dependencies on natural resources which in turn leads to conservation like we can grow our own food , reduce dependencies on fossil fuel and try to use renewable resources.  Eco living also suggest ways to reduce paper consumption like we can read various articles over internet instead of buying magazines.  We can also plant small house plants to purify air and decrease the use of air conditioner that is polluting the air and encourage eco living.

There are certain advantages of encouraging eco living:

1.     Greatly reducing dependency on nonrenewable resources like fossil fuel.

2.     Instead of using air conditioner or cooler to maintain artificially humidity eco living, create atmosphere of right temperature and humidity by keeping small shrubs or house plants in the house or in the porch.

3.     It is also economical as the energy bills are reduced to significant amount.

Encouraging eco living helps us to remain physically and mentally fit which in turn leads to have more energetic and have a serene lifestyle.

Have you watched the movie “King Kong”? The main character in this great and adventurous movie is a gorilla.  To summarize the story, this gorilla was hunted and exposed to the city by people who wanted money and fame.

This scene is not just a fantasy or a story, but is also happening in the real scheme of this world. It is very rampant nowadays how people destroy our wildlife. Wild animals are being caught and sold in informal or black markets.  It is also very sad to know that there are people who patronize this selling of wild animals even if they know that these species are endangered or almost extinct.  Because of this, laws were made to impose punishment to those who are proven guilty of selling and hunting endangered species.

Wildlife does not only pertain to wild and non-domesticated animals.  It also includes non-domesticated plants and other organisms that can be found in our ecosystem.  We must be aware that not taking good care of our wildlife causes imbalance in our ecosystem.  Plants, for instance, are one of our main sources of the oxygen that we breathe.  How can we survive without them?

We must preserve our wildlife for our common benefits.  Here are the roles each one can take to contribute in wildlife preservation:

1. Don’t overkill.  This occurs when animals being killed are greater than their population.  Fish, for instance, has a great population.  When their population decreased significantly due to continuous over killing of fishes, the outcome is the slow rate of growth of the fish population until it reaches a time that these species no longer exist.  Proper consumption is a solution to avoid the over killing of animals.
2. Protecting Animal Habitat.  Animals have a lower possibility of survival when they are removed from their original homes.  Cutting of trees, throwing of waste and chemicals to rivers, dynamite fishing and burning of forests are ways that lead to the destruction of the animal’s preferred area of territory.  There are organizations that encourage everyone to restore our environment.  You can join in tree-planting activities or join the clean and green movement in your society.  According to studies, planting more tress can create a good climate.  This is also a simple way of restoring the loss and damaged habitation of our endangered animals.

Today, there are organizations that were established to ensure the protection of our wildlife and to balance the needs of wildlife to our needs.  Wildlife biologists continue to seek for ways to improve and preserve the habitat of our endangered species.  They do pest control to protect our wild animals, irrigation to sustain water for trees and plants, and reforestation to bring life to wild animals.  Taking good care of our environment is our main responsibility. Destroying our environment means destroying our future.

We exist together with our wildlife.  We must learn to protect and preserve our wildlife for our own common good.  A healthy environment is a security for a bright future and a hope to the next generation.

The huge staggering variety of life on earth is the real wealth of us.  However, humans are bringing the tide of extinction on them at fast pace.  We should concern about the endangered species which are at the brink of extinction.  We should join hands to take the conservation efforts of wildlife and the rainforests.

The rate of deforestation and poaching has increased at a rate which can push the wildlife at stage of extinction.  With proper planning to stop the deforestation and conserving wildlife will help to make the ecology balance at perfect state.  Many programs have begun to take efforts in conserving wildlife and rainforests.  The conservation efforts of wildlife and rainforests are discussed here to make you aware of them.

The Indian government has started certain programs to protect tigers from poachers.  Project Tiger, Nature Camps and Jungle Lodges are some steps taken to bring awareness among the people about the conservation of wildlife.  By taking the efforts it has helped to preserve natural heritage.  You can take efforts in conservation by stopping the usage of materials which are made up of leathers, stop eating the foods of endangered species, take security measures from protecting the wildlife from getting hunted.  Several NGO’s are participating in protecting the wildlife by bringing out the campaigns about the conservation efforts of wildlife.

Human being has not spared the vegetation also.  For the greed of quality timber they are bringing down the valuable rainforests.  The deforestation is also hampering the wildlife.  Many animals are getting homeless and moving away from their breeding ground.  Various steps have been taken to conserve wildlife, rainforest as by constructing national parks where the area has been secured from any poachers or cutting down the forest.  Marine parks are built up to save endangered fish; especially mangrove areas are taken special care as they are the breeding ground of most of the fish, prawns, etc.   Laws have been made against the hunting of endangered species.

Eco living is another effort of conserving the nature.  It allows you to get blend with the ecosystem and make you learn about the values of the nature and its beauties.  By using natural sources of energy like solar, wind, water will also help your eco life and your habitat making more pure and afresh to live.  There are certain benefits of leading eco living are as follow:

• It reduces the dependence on the energy sources like gas or electricity from non-renewable sources which are costly, but by using natural sources like solar or wind will save your money and your environment.
• On leading an eco life, you can reduce the electric bills to a great extent and can produce power enough for your house without paying anyone anything.
• On having eco living you can take a bold step of saving the earth. You will help to reduce the spreading of CO2 at less extent and also encourages others on leading eco living.

Awareness is spreading in schools and among publics to encourage them in taking steps in conserving wildlife, rainforests and ecosystem.  Efforts of reducing pollution are also taking by many bodies to make the earth a place of living in healthy and in balanced way.

Where people are raising voices for the betterment of the nature, they are creating different organization through which people from different countries could participate to help the wild life.  Government of different countries is donating to these organizations.  As these organizations need huge finance to work, so the government aiding is very beneficial. These aids are like subsidies not loan. This means that the organizations would not have to pay back the finance. This is very beneficial for the organizations as it will cut down the costs thus, they will be able to give best services.

Most of the organizations work hard to get government attention, so that they are able to get the subsidies and the aids form them. This is useful for both the organizations and the organization.   Physicians, ecologist, economist and others from other related fields can sort out the ways to brought up the ecosystem between man and the nature strong. We should practice eco living so that we can easily make the nature beneficial in a safe way. Eco living contains so benefits, uses of natural products so that we could reduce pollution and by making the people around the world healthier as ever.

Animals are suffering due to the acts of the humans. The changes in climate are not due to the innocent animals, it is due to the ozone depletion that has taken place due to the establishment of industries. Animals are directly being affected by the changes in the climate, global warming has decreased the chances of survival for many animals. Wild life needs to be protected as man is taking a lot of benefit from them and these benefits are often indirect and man neglects them.

It has been discovered that the honey bees forget the path that leads to their home due to the cell phone signals.  When a bee is not able to find its home it dies.  This is problematic because if all the bees in the world die, then humans shall also not be able to survive.  Bees are the single creature that can account for the majority of the pollination which allows plants to grow.

Some good organizations are engaged in the protection of wild life and they are also trying to teach the importance of wild life to others.  Such organizations are keeping an eye on the endangered species and they are giving medical treatments to all such animals. The decrease of some species to such extents that they have become extinct is due to changes in the environment or excessive hunting.

The survival of wild life in modern world has become a lot more difficult.  We are the ones to be blamed for it and are also the ones that would have to do something in order to keep wild life safe for a more green and prosperous tomorrow.

Did you know the particles of food we drop at the dump are mixed up dangerous chemicals which can result in the death of any living being that feeds on the food? Animals are not aware of these facts. All they want is food, so they can feed on these poisonous foods and then be killed.

Today, many families are no longer eating organic food. They feed more on canned and other processed foods. These foods are preserved with chemicals that can become dangerous when they expire. Of course, we longer eat them when they are expired. We dump them in the landfills. Unfortunately, it is these animals and birds that will eventually feeds on these expired foods. Gradually, they will be affected by the chemicals used in preserving these foods.

Most of the times, fishermen throw away fishing nets that are no longer useful to them. These nets can also cause harm to these animals. The legs, neck and even the wings of birds can be trapped by these discarded nets. The animals can become hooked up in an attempt to rescue themselves.  

Some of the food that we eat which these animals scout for are not good for them. For instance, gummy masses can be formed in the stomach of ruminants by purified grains like bread. But these are the food they feed on in the landfill. So, the ingestion of a lot of such foods can result in the death of such animals.

The animals can also be harmed in the work face by the landfill workers either intentionally or accidentally. Many animals have been crushed to death by heavy truck and compressors as refuse is being dumped. Some are killed by the pile of waste while they are scouting for food.

The noise oozing out from the landfill does also affect the wildlife. Many animals are always frightened by noisy environment. Most of the time, micro-organisms and other harmful materials from the landfill can escape into the rivers which are the source of drinking water of these animals. Wildlife can be killed when they drink contaminated water from these rivers and lakes.

The question is: Is there anything that can be done in order to remedy the situation? We cannot avoid dumping refuse otherwise, we will be in trouble. Man seems to be in dilemma here. Should he jeopardise his own life and save the life of lower animals? Definitely, nobody will suggest that.

In the light of the above there is need for collective effort. We all should come together to remedy the situation. People should make sure that they do not mix up their refuse. Broken bottles and harmful equipments should be kept differently so that it will be taken to the appropriate quarters. Recyclable materials should be taken to the recycle centres.

Today, there is emphasis on the use of reusable materials. If we all should resort to reusable materials, it helps to reduce the amount of refuse that comes out from different homes. This will equally reduce the volume of waste taken to the landfill. Pack your refuse very well so that they will not be scattered by wind.

Some animals are for the sole purpose of food.  Cows are a perfect example of this.  They offer meat and milk to create dairy products.  Chickens are another good example – they supply us with meat and eggs. Other animals are not meant to be used as food, but rather as pets.  Kittens will always get you out of that bad mood by seeing just how much they enjoy their lives and live as if nothing will go wrong.

While some animals are being used as tools, many others are being used for companionship. This greatly depends on what you find pleasing to you. From snakes to dogs, any of them can be pets if you really love them enough to let them share the same house with you. Lonely people won’t be lonely anymore with some of these animals and better yet, some people find animals more comforting in times when they can’t really turn to human beings. Grannies will always have pets around them since no one visits them a lot and if you ask them, they find animals worth keeping.

Animals can also be useful in teaching caretaking skills to couples who haven’t had a baby yet. Animals have to be fed too just like you have to feed the baby. You have to take care of everything about a baby just the same way as you would with a pet animal in order to know that you are truly ready to handle what’s coming ahead. Some people out there use this as a way of knowing if their partners will be able to take care of a baby the right way, and if they fail the test, then it’s just bad news for them.

Other than that, animals may be used as a sign of wealth, especially in Africa where the number of animals you have dictates how rich you are. Paying for dowry is always in terms of animals which aren’t slaughtered immediately but kept for years to reproduce and in the end have more animals. In other parts of the world, animals aren’t just a sign of wealth but a source of wealth. Animals may be used in sport events such as horse racing or even ostrich racing though it is not that common. Besides sports, animals have been found quite useful for people undergoing rehabilitation since they are believed to be the best companions to such people.

Now that we have a rough idea of why animals are important to us, it is also good to know the disadvantages of them too. For pets, one might be allergic to some of the pets and thus it becomes too expensive for them to always keep on going to the doctor. Wild animals destroy crops or kill some of the animals that may be endangered or animals that we keep at home. Despite the disadvantages they have, it is still impossible to do without them for they are the ones that hold our lives in one way or another.

If you are engaged in a fight to the death with white rot, onion leaves can help you greatly. Chop them up and dig them into the soil around the affected allium plant and those nasty white rot spores will latch onto the onion leaves and both will wither and die together.

Spring onions planted among your carrots will confuse air-born predators like the ferocious carrot fly. Protecting your plot of land from garden pests should not involve poisoning of the soil and introducing alien wildlife.

Friendly Buzzing

Encourage bees, bumble bees and butterflies into your garden to aid pollination. With bee populations on the brink of extinction bees need all the help they can get, as does the bumble bee and many of our native butterflies.

Part of organic growing and environmentally friendly gardening is leaving a space free for wildlife to flourish. A compost heap provides a home for bugs and worms, a patch of wildflowers is a haven for insects such as butterflies. Friendly buzzing will attract birds to your garden, which also play a role in pollination.

Stopping the Decrease of Habitats

With deforestation and intensive farming threatening wildlife around the globe, now is the time to make very bit of land we have available to our native species if we don’t want to see bees or the red breasted robin vanish. Birds once common are beginning to disappear at an alarming rate. Loss of habitat is among the greatest threat.

Tarmacking your front garden or using decking in your main garden are all reasons for a decline in native wildlife. Even if you only have a tiny patch of land, you can turn it into a mini eco system. A window box with dry and wilted autumn foliage can provide shelter for insects during the winter; in the summer fill your window box with flowers with large petals or foliage – and watch insects use them as landing patches when they visit to slurp some nectar.

If your garden shed needs a new roof, think about making an eco-friendly grass roof instead of buying the usual roof felt from your DIY store.

We are the World

Protecting our environment from complacency, avarice and sheer stupidity is our greatest challenge today. We are capable of sending satellites into orbit and men into space, but we cannot prevent the common sparrow from becoming extinct?

We are part of our eco system, we are not its master – and the sooner this message is understood by greedy bankers, developers and estate agents alike, the sooner we can build towns and cities, where gardens and parks for people and havens for wildlife are an absolute essential for anyone looking for a new home. Tarmacked front gardens and decking behind the house should appear as defects along with blocked guttering or faulty electrical wiring, when we look through our house buyer’s pack or building survey.

Less money spent on designer bathroom appliances or plasma screens will allow developers to install roof terraces or provide planting in front of the building. The choice is ours – but we must make our voice heard, if we want to exercise “biological control” over the way our towns and cities develop.

 It is necessary that some kind of awareness creation is given to all people so that they may actually know these wildlife creatures are very important to our human race and as such may be useful in one way or the other.  When the majority actually know about this, they will definitely put an end to this or will try as much as possible to curb some kind of bad behaviours often exhibited.  It is worthwhile to state that these animals actually aid in various ways and as such should not be hunted but given the chance to move freely in the forest and also allow them to depend on themselves for survival and so on.  When things like these are done, it will definitely help solve so many problems including the way the animals are being killed daily.

Moreover, some bad practices such as bush burning can really be very detrimental to our human health today and as such it really ends up destroying the habitats of most of the world’s splendid animals.  It is often noted that in the deprived communities of this world, some people simply depend on creatures such as bush rats and rabbits for their source of protein and also as some kind of meal to them.  But what they do not know is the method in which they are hunted is usually not the right thing. This therefore implies that, unless some kind of basic education is given to these people, they will continue to cause that mess until there is bigger problem as compared to this present problem.  As a matter of fact, there should be some kind of law protecting this wildlife because it is only laws that can make people reason appropriately a bit and therefore should be practiced all the time.

Also, some animals are being killed everyday by some kind of dangerous chemicals they often eat. And it is the work of some unscrupulous people who actually behave like this towards the animals and do not actually know what these animals may give to mankind in the near future. The majority are not aware of the dangers or disadvantages associated with this kind of things.  As a matter of fact, some of these chemicals often used in the killing of these animals are also noted to be harmful to man when that particular animal is eaten. All these things are not usually known by those irresponsible and this is the main reason why some kind of awareness creation should be made. It is therefore imperative to state that until these animals are really set free, the world will continue to have its own problems.

Wildlife survival in this our modern world is really threatening and as such it is necessary that the appropriate steps are taken to curb this situation!

Every science student knows that trees take in carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere and emit oxygen.  Humans require oxygen and CO2 is very bad for their health, looking at the function of trees we can see that they are like small air cleaners and if we consider a whole bunch of trees it can be called as an air filtering plant. Trees are the only natural source that we have in order to transform CO2 into O2 and looking at their function we can call them really precious. Modern day young generation is not keeping this in mind, as during the planning of a new colony they don’t keep in mind the deforestation factor.

Trees are like the building blocks of wild life habitat. If the humans cut down the trees they also have a responsibility to arrange for new home for the animals. The wild life and forests must be the first thing to be kept in mind during the planning of a new town and proper planning must be done in order to shift the animals to a new place. The number of trees cut down from one place should be planted at another place so that the overall number of trees in the globe does not decrease. The animals should be caught with the help of tranquilizers and then properly shifted with suitable channels into the habitats that they require. Many animals have become extinct and thus they should be given special treatment. Their breeding should be done by the wild life authorities and their hunting should be strictly prohibited.

Animals are suffering due to the acts of the humans. The changes in climate are not due to the innocent animals, it is due to the ozone depletion that has taken place due to the establishment of industries. Animals are directly being affected by the changes in the climate, global warming has decreased the chances of survival for many animals. Wild life needs to be protected as man is taking a lot of benefit from them and these benefits are often indirect and man neglects them.

It has been discovered that the honeybees forget the path that leads to their home due to the cell phone signals. When a bee is not able to find its home it dies and if all the bees in the world die then humans shall also not be able to survive.  Bees are the ones that do most of the pollination and allow the plants to grow.  Some good organizations are engaged in the protection of wildlife and they are also trying to teach the importance of wildlife to others.

Such organizations are keeping an eye on the endangered species and they are giving medical treatments to all such animals. The decrease of some species to such extents that they have become extinct is due to changes in the environment or excessive hunting. The survival of wild life in modern world has become a lot tough; we are the ones to be blamed for it and are also the ones that would have to do something in order to keep wild life safe for a more green and prosperous tomorrow.