Conservation Ethics and Nature Conservation

The dictionary explanation for the word 'ethics' is a system of moral values principles.  Now to each and every one of us, this has a different meaning, since everybody is raised differently and have their own belief systems which go according to their religion.  But today we are discussing the the ethics surrounding nature.

Now before we begin this discussion, I would like to share an honest experience with you, before I came to Sondela, I had absolutely no respect for nature, it was something that has always been there, is there and will always be there, I took nature for granted.  So as my first course was Site Guide, I immediately learned about animals, plants and just the whole nature thing.  At first I didn't like it at all but as soon as I started understanding the imbalance that one species could cause if it was to disappear from earth, it kind of hit me, and was it hard.

Please let me state clearly, that I am not a Greeny but I do have more respect towards nature and I take it into consideration before doing anything, it was hard at first, but now it comes quite naturally.

So as I said, each religion and culture has their own belief system but there is one moral system that is universal and that is Conservation Ethics.  We all know we shouldn't litter or make fires that can cause massive devastation, we know it is unethical and even illegal to shoot some animals and yet there are people in the world that are either ignorant or totally ignore this basic logic.

Now we all still have to 'Stay Green' as they say but we need to go a step further or a few steps while we are being honest.  We all know we have to do our bit but to cancel out the people who do not, we have to go that extra mile.

Let's start at the beginning, we need to be fully equipped with the knowledge of recent news on nature, the history of nature which you can find when studying cultures.  After studying this, you need to start understanding the huge amount of respect they have for nature and adapt to it.  No, I am not saying you should convert, I'm just saying that we all can learn something from another.

The end result of humans disrespecting nature can be catastrophic because we are dependant on nature and all the animals.  If we lose just one keystone species, our whole world nature society could collapse, it sounds simple and it pretty much is. So let's make conserving nature a personal matter.

The only way for the human race to survive is to live in harmony with nature, this is the only way to achieve a successful relationship between humans and nature.  I read somewhere once that the world won’t end, just the human race will, the world might seem to be devastated but in years time, she will fix herself.  Easy examples are placed that have been eroded, in time pioneer plants start growing again and sooner than later, things are growing at full steam again.
I would like to conclude by saying, even God recycles, He made you out of dust.

Nature Conservation

So in the above mentioned I only lightly touched the subjects that are initially ruining our planet.
During this past year, I have grown a  conscience about nature and conserving it, so doing something as simple as killing a house spider makes me ache with guilt since I have learned that everything is interconnected. 
How we approach the future all depends on the past, just as you would be more patient with a child who had a rough childhood than a child who was brought up in a loving home and had everything they wanted, just as such, we need to study the history of mother nature so we can understand how to treat her.

Only recently we humans have started realizing how simple minded we have bee and what changes we need to make in order to save our planet, but I think we've done a good job in this little time we've had but so much more can be done.  Something that everybody is probably sick to death of hearing is, what if your children won't be able to see the wonder and miracles that earth has to offer, well I would love for my children to see what a rhino looks like in real life or be able to travel to Antarctica and still have there be something to see instead of water.

We need to look at all our actions and decide whether nature can handle this or if things are about to go horrifically wrong. To finish of this blog I would like to say, nature is NOT dependant on humans, but humans ARE dependant on nature.  Don't destroy our home, we've only got this one.