Species Conservation Awareness

 Wonderful Talk on Species Conservation

I remember not long ago, you and I had discussion on the issues pertained to species (Elephant) behavioral ecology. I believe you might have hard time thinking on how does this kind of conversation help with conservation of elephants in your surroundings. Well, of course you have right to ask as much questions as you can and surely you will probably find your way to a true fact as conservation is concerned . I admit that terms like Daily ranging, Feeding ecology, Gestation period, Child spacing and Habitat use, may look new or irrelevant to someone from other field of studies. But there is no need of trying so hard to figure it out, be sure at the end of this paper you will be able to put aside those ambiguities. Fundamentally, reasoning is the foundation of learning and knowledge grasping. Before we strike to the point let me add more questions for what I believe you will easily assimilate the knowledge and apparently become one of the best conservers in our community. See these questions!!

1. How does daily range, Feeding ecology and habitat use relate to elephant conservation?

2. Is there any way that Gestation period and Child spacing can be linked to elephant conservation?

3. What is the community perception toward elephant conservation no matter what damages caused by elephants in our daily life?

We already know that elephants have poor digestion efficiency with relatively high throughput rate that makes them wasteful feeders. For them to survive they need large amount of food, apart from that they are large in size thus needs relative large quantity of resources particularly food (150kg@) water (40L@), and space. For that reason elephants have to cover large area in search of food and water especially in dry season. Climate change and the accelerating global warming have disturbed the water cycle causing scarcity of food resources to many protected areas of our country. In recent days elephants are frequently encountered roaming out of protected areas. Habitat loss due to anthropogenic activities as the result of expanding human populations has converted wild land to agriculture, settlements and other human development activities hence posing another big threat to the survival of elephants consequently leading into human-elephant conflicts in human dominated landscapes.

Perhaps there is surge decrease in elephant populations all over the country. Elephants are poached for ivory trophy and wonderfully enough, the local people are the one offering assistance to illegal elephant dealers. Elephants however, takes long time to nurse their newborn individuals, the time from conceiving to delivery (gestation period) is approximately two years. An individual can reproduce at the age of about 35 years and it will count to about five years for it to have another calf.  All these means that, the rate of reproduction in elephants is relatively low as compared to most of mammals in the wild thus needs effective and intensive conservation measures in hand. The progressive loss of large number of individuals in the situation that we cannot replenish back the elephants population to its original state signals and calls for urgent measures of reviving our lovable species.

Unfortunately, the community attitude and perception toward conservation is low. Above all we are the ones benefiting a lot from tourists and we are also pleased having these animals in our country. At least we have the chance to appreciate the nature and its creatures. I guess you can now realize the reason to why we should stop poaching and never encroach wild areas. By doing so, we will actively contribute to efforts toward saving wild species in our country.

Be the first to spread Anti-Poaching Campaign, be the first to Save the Nature.

Wildlife Conservation, Begins With UUUUU!!!!!!!!.