Settlement buildings, business, and mining firms have been expanding into some national parks and important wild habitats where the indigenous wild animals are forced to live with their new neighbors—human beings. During these processes, the number and characteristics of the wild animals change to the extent that is out of humans’ imaginations
The native residents in South Africa are annoyed and confused by the local elephants’ increasingly aggressive behaviors. In contrast, Yellowstone’s visitors were stunned by the tameness of the blood carnivore grizzly bear who gathered at garbage piles near park hotels to gorge on leftovers and begged for handouts on the park roads between the late of 1800s and the early 1900s. Moreover, in the tropic rainforest regions such as Peru, people are bewildered—why the malaria can not be rooted out no matter what medicines, insecticides, or mosquito nets are used.
To uncover these riddles, humans should fix their eyes on the changes of the non-human animals’ habitats that have been caused by human beings. For instance, the shrink of elephants’ habitats force gentle elephants to become aggressive in order to gain and keep their territories. Humans’ living waste in grizzly bear habitats reduced bears into beggars that lost hunting skills and failed to live wildly in the early 1990s. When it comes to figure out why the mosquitoes are so formidable in Amazon region, flooding settlers and deforests are the answers. In what was untouched rain forest, new settlers farm fish and cut wood for charcoal. As trees fall, sunlight warms ponds and puddles, transforming them into mosquito breeding grounds.
Human beings explore non-human animals’ habitats at the price of the broken ecological balance, climate changes and diseases. Fortunately, humans are not blind any more. They have recognized the price, tried to lower it and looked for ways that can benefit both of humans and non-human animals by kinds of environment conservation activities.
Shrink of Elephants’ Habitats
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/06/25/stories/2006062500080100.htm
Shrink of Elephants’ Habitats
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2006/06/25/stories/2006062500080100.htm
Raging Malaria
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