Nature And Conservation
An enclosed conservation is part of the planet that we give back to nature.
But even as we put these patches aside, we intervene by closing the of with unnatural borders and dragging a certain amount of infrastructure into them in order to supply amenities which with make this patch of paradise accessible to man.
Therefore disruption and intervention occur even though we didn't mean them to, and then we are surprised to find that nature is unable to solve her problems her own way.
One of the first things to go wrong is that any game , now protected from man's destructive habits , starts increasing in numbers, which would be great apart from the fact they have to eat.
The pastures become overstocked and eventually depleted by overgrazing, and the grazers can't migrate because the area is enclosed.
Fire, whether natural or accidental, is also a hazard because human visitors have to be protected, and animals cannot escape the boundaries, if the survive the fire they might face starvation if the fires cause long term damage to their pastures.
Protracted droughts and disease outbreaks become a major concern for the same reasons.
And so as nature is not allowed to run her course, she is unable to solve her problems, and man is called on to intervene.
By enclosing nature for her own protection raises a major question.
What do we hope to protect and preserve? In other words, what is nature? Every ecosystem is a complex , dynamic network made up of a vast array of interdependent organisms and physical factors.
If one element shifts slightly, the whole system cam change.
Despite the for nature to be left untouched, change happens anyway and has since the beginning of time.
So the question is : If there is no original state, how can we judge what should be conserved and restored? The answer,it seems, is that intelligent man may decide for himself.
But even as we put these patches aside, we intervene by closing the of with unnatural borders and dragging a certain amount of infrastructure into them in order to supply amenities which with make this patch of paradise accessible to man.
Therefore disruption and intervention occur even though we didn't mean them to, and then we are surprised to find that nature is unable to solve her problems her own way.
One of the first things to go wrong is that any game , now protected from man's destructive habits , starts increasing in numbers, which would be great apart from the fact they have to eat.
The pastures become overstocked and eventually depleted by overgrazing, and the grazers can't migrate because the area is enclosed.
Fire, whether natural or accidental, is also a hazard because human visitors have to be protected, and animals cannot escape the boundaries, if the survive the fire they might face starvation if the fires cause long term damage to their pastures.
Protracted droughts and disease outbreaks become a major concern for the same reasons.
And so as nature is not allowed to run her course, she is unable to solve her problems, and man is called on to intervene.
By enclosing nature for her own protection raises a major question.
What do we hope to protect and preserve? In other words, what is nature? Every ecosystem is a complex , dynamic network made up of a vast array of interdependent organisms and physical factors.
If one element shifts slightly, the whole system cam change.
Despite the for nature to be left untouched, change happens anyway and has since the beginning of time.
So the question is : If there is no original state, how can we judge what should be conserved and restored? The answer,it seems, is that intelligent man may decide for himself.
