How to demarcate area of wild life from human habitation!

Wild life and human habitation – it’s all interwoven from times immemorial. Earlier, among the native in the remote corner of villages in India, more precisely, all over the world life and living was difficult. For establishment and safety it was essential for people to cut jungles and settle in life. Again, from cultivation to cooking, land of wood and jungle, in fact, ever played a vital role. ‘Survival of the fittest’ paved its own way and men and women superseded mammals—human being won over other living things.

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We were civilized and got ourselves time-honored in many ways. Gradually, the total land left for the wild animal was seriously affected. At present, hardly 3% of Indian land is left out for the animal life where they struggle all the while and somehow survive.

Naturally, to restore balance between such rural areas and forests we are apt to think how much should we keep for us and how little, spare for animals in our country. Of course, this is a burning problem today throughout the whole of the world. And, as a matter of fact, all the leaders are thinking seriously and broadly about environment which involves green house effect, global climate change, deforestation, etc.

As population grew so did we need to extend our land and property for our safe and secured livelihood? Hence, it became most unpleasant for the animals to lead life within a narrow confine. Sometime one or two of them come in the nearest locality for food. They find no escape but to be driven out or beaten to death by the villagers. Unfortunately, the wild life has turned into exclusively wild due to want of food and enough space for wandering about. Consequently, disintegration of wild species has become inevitable. As a result, ecological balance is at stake.

Now the question ecology has risen finds no solution at all. No government could ever stop its people from going into the forest and oblige animals. The solution lays in the consciousness which simple villagers often lack. Urban people says, ‘They lack in common sense, remain unlettered, are not in a mood to follow rules and regulation of our country.’ Right, the villagers are if not intelligent, not just fools. But they have no wood to cook, nothing to eat and absolutely, no land to cultivate to earn their own living. O God! Survival of the fittest is in jeopardy.

Finally, this is as worst as problems related to ‘sexual harassment at the work place’. Bill has not yet been enforced as law, which is badly needed. Of course, before that we are to point out when one crosses the limit and how far one is permitted. See, so is the case with the vulnerability of demarcation between wild life and human habitation. Am I correct?