Ecology is of extreme importance to all species, to the earth, and foremost to us. All animals,
including ourselves, depend on this earth for literally everything; food, water, shelter. Everything
on this earth depends upon something else. When you touch a flower a star moves, all is intertwined. Ecology is so dynamic that even the smallest of trouble can unsettle everything.
To look out after the earth is important to us financially, for the resonating of our souls by its own natural beauty, and also for our simple survival on this planet. It should be cherished and viewed with the highest level of importance and protected by us for all future generations to come.
Unfortunately that is not the case in real life. The majority of people have no understanding for Ecology. It means nothing to them that in the world around us many animals and plants are losing their fight against human intervention in their well balanced eco-systems. Everyone knows or is aware of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Hardly anyone knows or realizes that thousands of species of our flora and fauna are now becoming extinct. This is an ongoing trend and is increasingly threatening our bio diversity and global ecology.
I would like to use the Canadian Bears as a prime example of animal depletion. Bears are magnificent creatures, associated with strength, endurance and perseverance. Factors such as hunting, loss of habitat and apathy on the part of the public to preserve the bio diversity of the land has everything to do with their troubles.
Does one realize that if approximately, within a years time frame , 20,000 hunting licenses are issued to both residential and non-residential people you will have around 3,800 legal bear kills in British Columbia alone. At the same time though it is estimated that out of every legally killed bear two more are killed illegally by poachers. These nasty, self indulgent, greedy poachers aren’t even killing the bears for food. They...