December 25, 2016 at 11:32 pm

There are many answers to the above statement which are being answered in this article. It is meant for each of us the humans and is a important step for us to sit, pause, think and stop going to forest areas. Unless it is meant to protect wildlife.

1) We cannot keep our own cities in order neither can we live in order so we are not eligible to go to forests or near wildlife.

2) We think everything from what is beneficial to us and are too selfish and self centered hence we lose the right to loiter nearby areas inhabited by wildlife and forests.

3) We look everything from the prism of the so called development according to our yardstick, our own cities are crumbling and population unmanageable hence we lose the right to be seen nearby forests or wildlife.

4) Our laws are more supportive to humans but do not consider the rights of others that is anyone others than humans so we forego the right.

5) Cities, forests, rivers, lakes, mountains, marine waters and other places are full of pollution, plastics, thrash, garbage, bottles, RCC constructions, metals of waste, toxic water,  industrial wastes, air and vehicular pollution and other substances which take centuries to biodegrade. Hence we lose the right.

6) Tourism called ecotourism without responsibility, proper training, ethical and moral resolve is being conducted. The people visiting to these places as a weekend tour have to be stopped or restricted unless they are on some particular task which they have to accomplish and the authorities are aware of.

7) Poaching, illegal wildlife trade, laying traps, smuggling, trophy hunting and killing in some form or the other and some reason or the other is being done only by humans. The ratio of humans killed is very less when compared to the wildlife which is fast disappearing at unimaginable levels. When humans multiply the forests, wildlife and other lifeforms are going extinct. The main culprits are humans. So they have no business loitering in these areas for whatsoever reason it may be.

8) If we observe the cities and the humans breeding there, the kind of construction being done with no lung space or place for water bodies to exist to sustain an ecosystem. We even lose the right to look towards the side of forests or wildlife or anything to do with nature.

9) The few humans who do good are a minor part of the total human population. So the majority of those who enter the forests are unwanted characters who have no business being there in the first place. With what face can we look at the forests, wildlife or nature.

10) Roadways, railways and villages abutting these environmentally sensitive areas kill a huge number of wildlife every day of the year and cause pollution and irreversible damage to these areas. Who uses these? But the humans. Those who do not know how to value nature have no right to even think of  or venture near these areas.

11) Who runs the country but the government elected by the people and we are busy settling our own scores. Then where do we have the time to think about anything else. The government is responsible even for other lives that is other than those of humans. Are the ministries  fulfilling their  responsibility properly? The result is there for everyone to see. It is not this government or that government all have been equally responsible for this mess. So with what face can we think of even venturing near these areas.

12) People working as staff in the forest department have to be taken care of well and should also be made accountable. The rotten eggs among them will get everyone a bad name. This happens wherever humans are working. This brings us to the moot question are we capable of handling the situation when we cannot sort our own problems.

What is the best solution for this. There is only one solution just keep off from the forests, wildlife and environment. Stop messing around with them in the name of development. Keep a ban on letting humans into these areas. Do not allow them even to venture nearby.

Nature has its own way of healing itself. In ten to twenty years we will see that forest which had vanished will reclaim its land. Only we have to make way. It can be said that these are just words of resentment being expressed but if one gives a serious thought to this it is really possible to see that things turnaround back to how they were earlier.

The only thing required is no human involvement with anything to do with nature. Only experts or people assisting them need to be seen there. Laws are there but are they being implemented? They have been made totally toothless. Only one single thing is to be practiced do not go near forests or wildlife or anything to do with nature for a few decades. Just leave those places alone. Stay away from such areas and let them heal.