The essay starts with a brief explanation of my witness when
I was unaware about the wildlife and its trade. Then, the essay carry on with
the core facts about the wildlife and its illegal trade.
My introduction to the wildlife trade happened on
a shiny evening in 2009 as I was coming from the school to home. I was eleven
year-old born into an affluent Nepali Brahmin family and we were at our home in
mid-hill of Sindhupalchok district. Four of our elder school brothers were
carrying a little long and pine cone shaped creature. Listening to them the
creature is going to be sold out to someone else in twenty thousand. But, now I
came to know that the creature I had seen that day is pangolin, which is the
most endangered species.
Illegal trade in wildlife, itself a loss of
information and knowledge of the wildlife world and more than that it harms the
entire ecosystem. Day by day we
are being questioned of complete life on earth due to illegal trade in wildlife.
Furthermore, illegal trade in wildlife becomes a global issue in the
world which we are not thinking about the impact of what we are losing every
day. Plus, we have to bear a loss of
wildlife species which push the biodiversity in peril due to the unstoppable
trade in wildlife. As I understand it, illegal trade in wildlife directly shake
the nation like Nepal that depends on wildlife reserve and tourism. Finally,
based on the different source, I conclude my essay with how to fight against
illegal trade in wildlife and nurture the way to stop the innocent wildlife
from being poached.
By
the way, I am wonder how human use and operate with the wildlife products. But
wildlife and its parts/derivatives are traded globally for whatever the reasons
including pets (live), hunting trophies, cultural pieces and mainly fashion
accessories and ingredients for traditional medication, and even a wild meat
for human consumption. Somehow it is a revolution in medicinal values and other
products but through my view it is just a torture to an innocent animal they
deserve to live freely. Illegal trade in wildlife is well-defined as an
environmental crime, which directly harms the environment. Though, we are
shortening the human civilization in the demand of these needed.
From
my perch, I can show a complex triangular link between the income, poverty and
engagement in wildlife trade which are being practiced in developing countries
like Nepal. As an example from my own rural village, the poor and uneducated people
who are applied in trade for porter and carrier do not get the majority of the
trade's economical value and the people who own the trade are not poor in themself.
The illegal trade in wildlife is a lucrative business that involves a diverse
range of actors, from rural harvesters, professional hunters, intermediate traders,
wholesalers and retailers to final consumers and users. This pattern of illegal
trade in wildlife has the highest possibility for the maximum loss of manpower
in illegal work along with the biodiversity in very minimal time which would be
a threat to an endangered and rare species.
I
hate the phenomenon of dooming the animals for the fulfillment of demands by
the modern lifestyle of human being. Every creature want to live freely like
us. They must not be tortured and disturbed in their own lifestyle. In my
perception, animal's life should not be harmed because they have their own
value in existence of human civilization till now. I am going to make my point
strong that the illegal trade in wildlife should be banned in order to make a
human civilization long term survival. It’s a great mistake that people are
doing everyday knowingly. With the rises of this illegal trade and trader in wildlife
and wildlife parts, some agencies, people, government had taken some efforts to
instill love and respect of the rights of wildlife. Hundreds of activities had
been done by the concerned agencies, people, and governments throughout the
world in order to combat illegal trade in wildlife. If we love and respect the
every animals for their value, many endangered species will bring out to their
own life.
At the very first time, public has to be informed
how their purchases could be driving these animals towards extinction. To fight
against the illegal trade in wildlife, there must be a combination of strong
law enforcement and high penalties in countries where wildlife is poached or
illegally transported. The strong point to combat trade is to provide public education and awareness which is often cited as an
important issue in the conservation of endangered species. I suggest that the
best way of reducing the illegal trade of wildlife may sound be in Asia by
convincing young people of consumer countries like China, Thailand, and others
that their demand of wildlife parts is leading extinction of endangered
species. The best key to combat the wildlife trade is education and inspiration
that the loss of wildlife is cumulative loss. And this is the peak hour to act
that every people of all the age group must be sensitize to wildlife.
Moving
forward, we all have a lot of responsibility on our shoulders. We can choose
many ways we could contribute to stop this environment disaster and it requires
two things which are will and passion. Every people can contribute in their own
respective way. For example, as a young student like me learning and studying
this matter is also one of the contribution. Like a student, a good parents can
show their support and seriousness by showing positive attitude to their
children. This helps to build up the foundation required to produce a
generation that love and protects nature for the coming years. Reduce the
consumption of wildlife parts is also a way of increase in number of endangered
species and increase in endangered species means more biodiversity saved from
extinction. This shows that we don’t need to be an official wildlife speaker to
contribute. People of all ages could give a helping hand and solve this matter.
Don’t wait; start now because actions speak louder than words.
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