January 3, 2017 at 12:38 am

This is an important topic being revisited again in the new year. As there are a lot of petitions which have been signed by me to save such and such a wildlife or a forest which is being deforested in the name of economic activity and so called development for solely the purpose of humans and their selfish needs disregarding all the others who are using the same systems with humans. As they are unable to speak and there is no need to take their permission humans decide among themselves what is good for the world and what is not.

Roads and railway tracks are laid, dams built by taking over their forest area. Some petitions call for action against elephant deaths caused by train and bus accidents or any vehicular activity or human activity dangerous for the elephant population which may also be using the area as it is their corridor or grazing area.

There are petitions by like ones for protecting elephants which are called rouges and being made captive so that they may be used in some form of economic activity. There care cases of other elephants being killed all over the world for the tusks and ivory trade. The most horrible and sad part is poachers and illegal wildlife traffickers are doing the work in such a crass commercial way that they are just chopping off the face of the elephants so that they die quickly without resistance and the caracas is being left to rot till someone from the wildlife happens to spot it. This is happening all over the world. In the so called developed countries there are elephants still being used in circuses and there are petitions requesting for their release to be signed.

We also have cases of mothers being separated from their calves by hotels or resorts using them for the purpose of  amusement of eco tourists who are supposed to be friends of wildlife. These calves are being chained, tortured and being made to do unnatural acts which is taught to them to be performed after inflicting enormous amount of brutality. There are other petitions signed where places of religious worship are using elephants in this same sadistic method for the purpose of religious ceremonies and other processions.

There are other petitions which have to be signed for the purpose of requesting the respective governments of different countries to act against poachers and illegal wildlife traffickers. The most shameful part is that these governments who are all over the world in different countries run by humans who are supposed to have some grey matter in their brains do not act and keep dragging their feet leading to further killing and destruction of wildlife.

Some other petitions signed request respective governments and other concerned organisations to stop transgressing and destroying forest areas and elephant corridors as these have been used by them since centuries. Others signed request stopping of killing and causing harm to elephants when they come to cities which were actually forest areas and are the corridors used by them.

There are a few more which request forest department or the governments to see that elephants which come and damage crops leading to man animal conflicts are also taken care off. Actually these villages are in most of the cases near to forest areas or wildlife parks and were elephant area once.  Compensation for the crop damage or other damage is paid by wildlife but elephants are killed by poisoning, electric wires fencing or digging pits trapping them or due to firing by weapons.

A few more petitions are there signed which request to provide proper shelter and place for unwell, injured or elephants having some other problems unique to them. Here the problem is non availability of proper place and trained staff and facilities to take care of them and money to foot for their expenses.

These are some of the different which have been signed. Here one thing is clear the human apathy towards the difficulty which wild animals and elephants at their hands and a “I care a damn attitude which humans have perfected over the years.”  Unless a big hue and cry is made lots of wildlife friendly group make, or news coming as headlines in newspapers or continuous coverage in television channels being relayed or any online posts which attract the attention of the public nothing is done till that time.

The attitude of the humans is already so many have died or have been killed what if a few more also perish. What big difference will it make for us humans as we have some elephants already in the zoo’s and other places where they will not die. So why make a big fuss about all this conservation, habitat, corridor, forests, their areas and all such nonsense.

What big purpose do these elephants and other wildlife serve us are they generating any revenue? Is there any big money involved by preserving them if not why this big fuss. Who will feed them. When so many humans are going hungry and dying and we do not care of our own what is so big about wildlife and elephants or forests.

This is simply a big hue and cry raised by the NGO’s and foundations for whom this activity is their bread and butter so they have to do it. The other five star activists who roam around with their cameras and are doing a great business for them it is a necessity as they are the stars of their industry. They anyway have nothing better to do so they keep shouting and crying.

This is the attitude which the general world  consisting of humans has. Many others have no time to think about themselves or their children so where is the time for wildlife, forests or elephants. We are any praying to different gods so what use are these to us. These will be the thoughts running in the minds of a majority of the population of humans. They are so greedy that they will go to any extent if what they want that is money of position available for protecting the above. Otherwise it is simply a waste of time or a pastime indulged by those who have nothing better to do.

This is how the normal, educated, selfish, supposed to be intelligent, greedy and what not, humans feel about saving elephants, wildlife or forests. Request readers to share this post and create awareness among the millions of humans who behave like this and go for trophy hunting, wildlife safari, kill and consume wild animals, trade with them or crooks who do illegal wildlife trafficking, poaching and other similar activities. And for the silent majority which is busy and too involved worrying about their own and their dear ones lives or their businesses. Unless these majority of humans change their thinking and attitude and get some Gyan  from somewhere, nothing will change. They will continue their self destructive mode and leave a empty legacy to their future generations.