With a growing population not only in Africa but globally, there is a great increase in demand of land for shelter and work where there is no available space unless...
Forest and natural areas are cleared for settlements to be built, whereby animals are displaced due to the loss of their habitats and in most cases eventual death and extinction.
A study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported
that during the decade
from 1980 to 1990, the world's tropical forests were reduced by an
average of 15.4 million hectares per year (0.8 percent annual rate of
deforestation). The area of land cleared during the decade is
equivalent to nearly three times the size of France. Imagine that?However, in some areas indigenous cultures and traditions have managed to live in symbiosis with the wildlife around them in effort to survive with all the available neccessities. One of these cultures are the Maasai who have been living in gaming land with their herds and whom have recently faced pressure to relocate and leave the area.
Even though the animals do face great threat and danger from people interfering within the 'ways of nature', what happens to those who took the initiative to find a way to create their own shelter and work but are forced to end up majority of the time on the streets? Is there a way to possibly preserve the wildlife whilst still managing to provide shelter space for people especially in our continent? Or are we forced to disregard human rights in effort to preserve animal rights?
1 comment:
displacing this people is for their own good
imagine ten years of deforestation: dry land, no rain , no water, no food equating death all in the name of being human.
aren't we losing more by not displacing this people?.....we need the wildlife, we need the forests in order to sustain life.
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