Wildlife corridors are belts of land which join one reasonable patch of habitat to another. There should be far more effort in producing and suitably managing these corridors. Also, there should be viable patches of habitat dotted around all large areas of farmed land.
These areas of wildlife habitat do not have to be redundant; they could be farmed, sustainably, and therefore benefit both the human community and the local wildlife.
You may feel the need to steal land from other animals but you do not have to steal it all!!!!!
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This is a very important issue especially today. If something isn't done now, there won't be any animals to steal land from, or any people to steal it. We are losing Rainforest too rapidly to even comprehend, and the few places which up until now have been at least partially safe are now degrading quickly. WAKE UP AMERICA! Your future progeny are dying before they are born... (no, I am not referring to abortion, we are killing them well enough without opening THAT can of worms.
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Thoughtful post. We need to look at the other side of the coin too. In an attempt to establish as many protected areas as possible, many indigenous people are being displaced worldwide. This is stealing peoples land for other animals.
A good point, kanno but it is ultimately because wildlife is given fewer and fewer places to thrive that many of these serious conflicts between Humans and other animals come to be although it could be said that it is often indiginous people who can be affected unfairly.
Wildlife corridors in Britain are mostly very narrow so the idea is, more often, to live with the animals rather than to move completely away from them.
I am aware that life is not always that simple when you are dealing with animals which might be a big problem to the community and its farming. I have heard of wildlife corridors for elephants and big cats that are enormous compared to British standards and could obviously affect the local community badly.
In essence, the Human population is increasing and land needs to be used more efficiently.
A highly interesting point is brought up here. It seems that we only act as a society when species are actually threatened with extinction, and even then, by the time we've had our meetings and inevitably failed to come to an agreement, it's too late.
We are locusts- and it seems that music, art and film are the most affective ways of illustrating our effects on the planet. (i.e 'An Inconvenient Truth') For the time being at least, those mediums are finding ways round censorship, in some western countries anyway.
I know I'm veering from wildlife corridors here, but it is imperative that the government actually start insisting on recycling and using public transport (unless it is absolutely unavoidable, and this should be in exceptional circumstances.)
People currently see environmental consideration as an optional, and in some cases sympathizing with Greenpeace, hippy culture or just plain scare tactics.
It is time the government really scared us, and perhaps the next Prime Minister (more than likely to be David Cameron) could be the most important appointment of our times, as it may be his decisions regarding the environment on a global scale- and obviously those of (hopefully) Barack Obama- will be crucial to saving millions of people's and animal's lives. (Not to mention the loss of significant land mass due to rising sea levels. Increasing populations+loss of land mass= disaster.)
Wildlife corridors are one of the building blocks of environmental action, which could be maintained by local communities with the aid of local councils.
Relating to your other topic- you could even use prisonors in these projects.
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