Friday, March 16, 2012

Preserving Biodiversity

2-27-12

Hello Everyone!

I hope that you found the last post as insightful as I did. As I was perusing different articles about Kenya on-line, I was pleasantly surprised to find one that had to do with preserving animal life. Animals are very important to me and to our environment and ensuring the preservation of different species allows us to continue developing and interacting in a way that allows our environment to flourish. In this day and age, the populations of Rhinos in Africa have been on a decline due to harsh conditions and poaching. These innocent animals are used as tools for profit and are killed for resources. Many people use the horns of these animals as a source of income by selling them to areas that use them for medicinal and decorational purposes. This is upsetting and affects the populations of other animals in the environment as well.

Kenya Wildlife Services and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) teamed up to relocate a number of black rhinos in Kenya from a privately owned ranch to Ruma National Park. This move will allow rhinos to receive the special care and assistance that they need and it will also protect them from poachers and other predators. Along with these advantages comes another, important aspect about the safety of the National Park in comparison to a privately owned ranch. The National Park is free of a specific kind of fly that transmits diseases to its prey. It is called the tsetse fly and it is a transmitter of diseases such as sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in animals. Some of the diseases that they transfer can be fatal and providing a home for these rhinos that is free of the flies is vital in preserving their populations.

Ensuring that our environments continue to be diverse in order to interact and sustain our wildlife is one of the many reasons that we strive to protect the species that inhabit our wildlife areas. The steps that have been taken in Kenya to save these black rhinos are extraordinary and will prove to be a beneficial factor in the advancement of the people. Not only does this preservation benefit the animal species and diversity of Kenya but it also benefits the economy as well. The steps that have been taken encourage tourism in Kenya. Many people enjoy witnessing the wonders of wildlife and seeing rhinos and other animals in person and this attracts people to Kenya. When the rhino population was decreasing, many people were dissatisfied with the tours and game drives that they were taking part in and now that the rhinos are being taken care of, more people can witness their magnificence. This is definitely a step forward in Kenya and I am glad that the wildlife services have discovered how important it is to preserve the species in Kenya and I am hopeful that this will lead to many advancements in the environments.

I hope you enjoyed this post! To read more about the New Home for Black Rhinos in Kenya, please visit:




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