We live in a beautiful world, with an immense variety of trickling streams, flowing rivers, and tumbling waterfalls, stretching canyons and valleys leading to lofty mountains high, wide rushing seas and deep blue lakes. grassy savannahs and everglade forests, red deserts, icy windswept reaches, and lush dense rainforests.
Think of the array of astonishing wildlife animals which can be found in any area of this diverse world, from the tiniest green frog to the largest blue whale. Imagine the same world without some of the animals you may take for granted, for example, tigers, or elephants, or chimpanzees? It seems impossible that these wonderful wild creatures may no longer grace our planet with their presence someday, yet the reality is that their numbers are diminishing at an alarming rate. There are no more than a few thousand tigers left in the wild! It seems hard to fathom that an animal that has roamed the earth for so long may be wiped out while modern man watches on.
The tiger has no real predators which threaten its existence, besides for humankind. We trap tigers for their pelts and their body parts, which are used in many ways for assumed medicinal uses. The tigers' habitat shrinks yearly and its food sources become scarcer, forcing each individual's huge territorial range to coincide with human habitation. Tigers may therefore also be hunted and killed if they threaten livestock in villages. The loser of course is the tiger. Numbers dwindle year by year.
Now, think of a giant puzzle. Take a piece away. You can still see the puzzle, but it has lost an important part, even if it may be only a very tiny part. Think of all the pieces that have gone missing from the earth's puzzle, never to be found again. Sad, isn't it?
If we all do our part by refusing to use scarce resources and by contributing some of what we have to putting things right, maybe we can make a difference. It starts with me and you.
Think of the array of astonishing wildlife animals which can be found in any area of this diverse world, from the tiniest green frog to the largest blue whale. Imagine the same world without some of the animals you may take for granted, for example, tigers, or elephants, or chimpanzees? It seems impossible that these wonderful wild creatures may no longer grace our planet with their presence someday, yet the reality is that their numbers are diminishing at an alarming rate. There are no more than a few thousand tigers left in the wild! It seems hard to fathom that an animal that has roamed the earth for so long may be wiped out while modern man watches on.
The tiger has no real predators which threaten its existence, besides for humankind. We trap tigers for their pelts and their body parts, which are used in many ways for assumed medicinal uses. The tigers' habitat shrinks yearly and its food sources become scarcer, forcing each individual's huge territorial range to coincide with human habitation. Tigers may therefore also be hunted and killed if they threaten livestock in villages. The loser of course is the tiger. Numbers dwindle year by year.
Now, think of a giant puzzle. Take a piece away. You can still see the puzzle, but it has lost an important part, even if it may be only a very tiny part. Think of all the pieces that have gone missing from the earth's puzzle, never to be found again. Sad, isn't it?
If we all do our part by refusing to use scarce resources and by contributing some of what we have to putting things right, maybe we can make a difference. It starts with me and you.
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