How do we get a balance between Wildlife Conservation and Community Welfare?

As Humans, how do we get a balance between wildlife conservation and community welfare? Humans have been the major threat and cause of natural/environmental problems.

This is due to various factors such as:

  • Need for space.
  • High poverty levels.
  • Starvation.
  • Industrialisation and urbanisation.
  • Developments.
  • Among others

As days go by, things are getting complicated and sophisticated. More developments are being practiced. I need to have a “better” life. Which sometimes does the opposite.
As we embraced new technologies, life became easier and cheap but expensive to our environment. The environment was never taken into account while making such decisions until it was too late.
Things have changed, nowadays each developer has to assess their impact on the environment before undertaking any projects. Organizations were set up as well to make sure this is adhered to. And also responsible to come up with laws and ways that can help rejuvenate our environment.

It’s not all of us who agree or adhere to these rules due to different reasons. That is:

  • Lack of knowledge about environment conservation.
  • Lack of understanding and appreciation of nature conservation.
  • Corruption and lack of political goodwill.
  • Lack of alternatives to their negative actions.
  • Just to name a few.

Can conservation education and awareness help change their mind?

You will easily protect or fight for something you love. And you can only love something you understand well about. Or able to relate to.
If we can help the local communities appreciate wildlife, they will be able to find ways to co-exist with them. They will be able to manage or approach human-wildlife conflicts in a better way.
Wildlife has no brains but we do have. So it’s our job to ensure the co-existence is successful. It will mean we do the following:

  • Stop encroaching wildlife land and respect wildlife space.
  • Fight against land grabbing and fragmentation of conservation areas.
  • Stop poaching and hunting wildlife for any given reason.
  • Plant more trees and participate in re-forestation.
  • Invest in man-made forests.
  • Practice environmentally friendly developments projects.
  • Come up with tough laws to protect nature.

Each of us takes a different time and angle to understand stuff. So they will be some who will take a little longer to transform. But we have to keep encouraging them rather than condemning them.
Kids have the best shot at transforming our society. By exposing them to environmental studies and importance. They will be able to spread the same to their parents and the other adults. As well as growing up understanding the importance of conserving the environment.

“It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely”

wildlife share the same citizenship as humans

Wildlife is not lesser or minor citizens. Just because they can not speak out for themselves. They have equal rights just like the rest of us. It’s time we stopped oppressing them.
While we fight for better roads, developments, and cheap living. We have to consider them too.
Wildlife brings a huge return in terms of revenue from tourism. Most of this revenue should be used to better-living conditions of the wildlife. Unlike humans, wildlife only needs us to respect and not interfere with their environment.
They don’t need tarmac roads or internet. When we allow them to have their own space, nature has a way of healing itself.

So the balance will be attained once we work on all these gaps and all shall be well. We have to live happily together without hurting anyone.

10 thoughts on “How do we get a balance between Wildlife Conservation and Community Welfare?”

  1. It’s a very important problem, we have a big primeval forest in Poland – Bialowieza – one of the last such places in Europe, and it’s really hard to convince people in the area that tourism will be, in the long run, better for them than cutting trees and hunting what’s left of rare animals…

  2. I agree, but too few people do: “Wildlife are not lesser or minor citizens. Just because they can not speak out for themselves. They have equal rights just like the rest of us. It’s time we stopped oppressing them.”

  3. Unfortunately, here in the US we seem to take two steps forward and one back. Except now, when it’s all back. I wish our leaders could understand your message.

Have your Say

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Scroll to Top