Are we really going to be the nation that would have hunted its own national animal to extinction? Aircel together with WWF has launched a Save Our Tigers campaign hoping to mobilize public opinion in support of the big cat. While public opinion has served as a remarkable means of pressurizing the authorities to ensure justice in past instances, will it be sufficient in this particular case? Is it possible to generate a voice loud enough such that the government is forced to act? And with numbers dwindling at a rate as this, will their action be in time to undo what years of recklessness and greed have done? Having grown up mouthing Suhaib Ilyasi's Remember, together we can, and we will, make a difference, why am I afraid that it might be too late for together now? Why do I have a feeling that I wont be taking my kids to Kanha National Park the way my parents used to take me? That I would have to make do with the city zoo or worse, with documentaries on National Geographic to tell them what this part of their heritage was like. While here I am, worrying if my future kids would get to see what a tiger really looked like, what about the tiger kid whose mother doesn't come back home?
First of all.. extinction is a rule of nature..
ReplyDeletehundreds of species have come and gone extinct even before man set his footprints here. But its just this particular animal, the human, which feels the need to be in control of everything around him, even the nature that has borne him. The only thing we can take in our control is the poaching that goes around in many places. We can hold ourselves responsible only for the commercially selfish activities that have led to the dwindling counts of these species.
And dont feel sorry for the tiger kid. Let that be a lesson for next generation that such may be a case with us humans too
@ Kushal: This isnt a species that nature selected for extinction. Nor are the dwindling numbers due to increased activity in the food chain. The reason here is uncontrollable and irrational human greed and that must be curbed.
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