Blog #4

I loved reading the worthy things individuals have done for our environment and the species that live in it.  The passages from “Hope for Animals and Their World” by Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson, and Thane Maynard were happy stories of a few individuals who had a vision for our environment and worked hard to achieve that vision.  I have been saddened to learn what we have and are doing to our environment; however I am pleased to see that there are individuals who do care to put all their efforts to change it for the better.  Interesting, the passage states with time, money, and determination the landscape that has been destroyed by humans can recover.  This is really good to know that the positive changes can occur.

Forest areas have been developed for humans to the possible extinction of some species.   Such a species is the chimpanzees in Gombe Tanzania.  Individuals are now working hard to create restoration of the forest and the continued protection of these areas.  They have created “corridors” for the chimpanzees to travel that will allow them to create habitats in other areas to continue the creation of the species.  These passages speak a lot of survival of the species; however, it is also done thru vegetation.  Without vegetation, everything such as animals, insects, and humans would not be able to survive.  That is a pretty sobering thought.

Rod Sayler stated, “We are treading too harshly on the earth and consuming and degrading too much of the planet.  If we allow extinctions to happen through ignorance or greed, then with the loss of each endangered species and unique population, our world becomes less diverse and strikingly less beautiful and mysterious.  Our oceans, grasslands, and forests will echo with silence, and the human heart will know that something is missing – but it will be too late.” 

Wow – I have to agree with what Sayler has stated.  I think each individual should be required to be involved in protecting and possibly restoring our environment in some way.  If you tear up a tree to add a home, you should be required to replace a tree for the animals, the insects, the environment.  Every small thing done can aid in some way.