Why Wildlife Preservation Is Important

Plants and animals spend their lives in ways that seem to perfectly sync with each other. The grass is eaten by the deer, which gets hunted by the lion, which then eventually dies and decomposes to be food for the grass. Another example would be when fruits get eaten by animals, who then scatter the seeds of the plant here and there aiding in the seed dispersal. There is a sort of continuity, a system, albeit unknowingly of give-and-take.

Without even thinking about any other aspect for a moment, just disturbing this sacred cycle seems outright cruel and almost sinful. This whole system is so precise that the removal or the decrease in numbers of even any one species of either plants or animals can disrupt the whole thing.

According to the estimates made by biologists. over seven million species of plants and animals live on planet earth. And if you add in the species that are not plants or animals, such as lichens, mushrooms, and fungi, the total number of species leaps much higher. Tallying the estimates of all living things brings the number to 11.3 million species currently on earth. 

 However, the way humans live and work, the way we fulfil our greed and our needs is triggering a sharp drop in their numbers. In the last 40 years alone, we have seen an overall loss of 60 percent of species populations. 

Why Is Saving Wildlife Important?

The importance of wildlife conservation cannot be stressed enough. The vast diversity of life on Earth contributes to our lives and well-being in more ways than we imagine. From providing a range of natural remedies to protecting us from temperature shocks and improving soil quality, we need wildlife for our well-being, growth, and survival.

Protects Against Climate Change: Forests play a vital role in battling climate change by storing carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Animals reduce the amount of grass and plant that can fuel fires through grazing. Therefore, protecting wildlife reduces the frequency and intensity of destructive forest wildfires. 

Protects the Ecosystem

In the wild, a lot of animals depend on each other through food chains and food webs. 

For example, carnivores like lions, and tigers depend on herbivores like deer for their survival. If deer become extinct in the wild, the effect can be detrimental to the survival of the carnivores. It will also affect the survival of other herbivores in the jungle as the cats will now depend on the remaining animals for their survival, which can greatly reduce the population of other animals.

Conserving fauna and flora encourages ecological stability and balance in the world. The plants, for example, play an important role in ensuring a healthy ecosystem by balancing carbon dioxide and oxygen in the environment.

Aid in Food production 

Small animals particularly bees, insects, butterflies, and birds play an important role in food production. By moving from one flower to another in search of nectar, bees carry pollen which sustains crop growth. And birds help in the dispersal of seeds. Conservation of these animals, therefore, aids in food production, 

Improves Soil Health And Fertility

Wild animals play a key role in enhancing the health and fertility of the soil by improving its nutrients. Their dung and urine help replenish the nutrient content of the soil by providing it with enriching minerals. 

Economic Benefits

○    Tourism: Tourism heavily contributes to the economic growth in countries because of the wildlife conservation centres and their preserved natural habitats. It is recorded to account for about 10.4% of the world’s GDP. 

○    Creation of jobs Animals and plants have helped create thousands of jobs both directly and indirectly. People are employed in zoos, national parks, and wildlife reserves. And there are also other professionals such as journalists who play the role of reporting and developing documentaries about the life and nature of different wildlife species.

How to Help in Conservation

No one is too small or too weak or too poor to help conserve wildlife and save our planet. Here are some points to highlight what you can do:

Adoption

From wild animals to wild places, there is an option for everyone. Get together with classmates to adopt an animal from a wildlife conservation organization such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Symbolic adoptions help fund organizations to save more and more wildlife

Restoration 

Habitat destruction is the main threat to 85 percent of all threatened and endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. You can help reduce this threat by planting native trees, restoring wetlands, or cleaning up beaches in your area.

Recycling

One of the most common things you will hear from environmental conservationists is that you should recycle, and this is often repeated for a good reason. Recycling is a great way to minimize our use of non-renewable resources and make the most out of our materials. Easy on the environment as well as the economy, there is no good reason not to recycle.

Find new ways to use things you already own. If you cannot reuse, recycle. 

We expected extinction to unfold offstage, in the mists of prehistory and not right in front of our eyes. But on March 19, 2018, Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhinoceros died. Even though Najin and her daughter Fatu are still alive, the death of Sudan was the end of an evolutionary rope that went back millions of years. The caretakers of Sudan said goodbye, and, apologized for the sins of humanity. There is nothing we can do to bring the Northern White Rhinoceros back, and it was too late.

But it is still not too late to join in and save the thousands of other species of animals still here.

Do what you can and do your part, it is OUR world after all.