There was this video that I watched this morning. It was shot by some citizen journalist who was on a tour of some national park. The safari jeep had dived very deep in to the wild. A herd of elephants grazing quietly was deeply disturbed by all that sound and fury. The big ones charged at the human beings, initially to their amusement! All escaped safely, but the incident shows how we treat the wild animals. Wildly indeed!
The video reminded me of an essay by the formidable George Orwell. The essay talked of his helplessness when it came to the killing of a majestic elephant. The animal was on heat. The crowd thought it was wild, and would stop at nothing short of shooting the poor animal! Indeed wild, who though?
We, the human beings, have encroached their habitat, destroyed the forests, and hence the life chain, interfering thus in the very cycle of their existence. We kill them for our lusts; their body parts are aphrodisiacs for weirdos. Wild and cruel, we, the human beings are, destroying them, while blaming the victims! Look at the leopard attacks! Some proof they are of my assertions so far.
Indeed we need to conserve the forests, their inmates, the wild animals, and all this anxious "activ(e-)ity" not for their, but our own good. Otherwise, it would be a mad, headlong rush in to our own extinctions. Long live wild animals, safe and sound!
Pratima@ tigers and such wild ones at their own site/in the forests, day and night/treat them and their ilk right/in such wise might lies our future bright!
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