How we are destroying the ecosystem and preponing our ends.

While I was reading ecology I was mesmerized by various exotic facts. In my previous article on ecology titled “Want to know a bit about the magnificent ecology, we blindly destroys?” I tried to few things about our ecology and ecosystem briefly and with continuing further the stress I would like to highlight some facts related to our ecology. And what we are doing.

In our approach to money, greed, and power we become so ruthless that we don’t blink an eye before poaching an animal. Well, it is one fact that if we don’t kill and eat certain species they will be a superfluity to the habitat. Of course, that’s how checks and balances in ecology work in one of its many ways.

For example- People eat chicken, meat, etc. and if they won’t eat these animals then that isn’t certainly stopping them from producing further of their progeny thus stressing and competing for the resources. They are animals that don’t know to adopt a one-child policy or family planning and also they don’t have an emotional belief in creating a family and living with them for the rest of their life (yeah leaving some of them). They just have seasonal breeding where they mate with their counterparts.

But, the problem is when we start eating anything we are encountering in our environment. Like they serve shark soup in the restaurant and we already know that shark is endangered, and vulnerable species.

And other ways in which we are responsible for some of the species are climate change, deforestation, clearing grasslands, building high-rise buildings, etcetera.

So, some of the species which extinct are as-

The American Alligator – It was North America’s largest reptile and the astounding fact is that there is no predator of this animal unless we talk about humans. This species has actually been before the dinosaurs but even after fighting bravely with all the economic disasters it went through it lost the battle with humans. This animal was very important for its ecosystem. It used to live in the depressions dug by it in the wetland and also it was quite large and when they come out of it for other purposes these depressions were actually filled with rain and provided life to other creatures living in that ecosystem and also many creatures come for breeding there. But, when this species start becoming vulnerable and finally extinct then these depressions were no more being created and slowly covered with soils filling up the depressions and various creatures which were dependent on this ecosystem were extinct as soon as this species extinct.

I would like to highlight some facts like amphibians are also declining at a faster rate and their vulnerability is mostly because of human behavior leading the way to increment of Ultra violet rays on earth, the pollution, overhunting them and climate change, and so on.

We should really be concerned about this because they not only are just an animal or species but they are also keystone species in some cases and they also act as indicators for a few other things. Reptiles mostly depend on amphibians and in some habitats with loss of amphibians will ultimately be shown in the reduced number of reptiles and reduced number of reptiles paves the way for other creatures to flourish and multiply more of their offspring spreading plagues, and diseases. Thus, superfluity the earth with all those creatures which are not so much wanted, and reducing all those creatures which maintain the ecosystem.

Last but not least I would only like to say that we should be more concerned about our ecology and ecosystem and we need to be knowledgeable about how the ecosystem works and how each species contributes to maintaining the ecosystem. Disturbing any species may create an ecological disaster and we better know the cost of these great disasters. The government has already tried to protect much wildlife with its policies but still preventing poachers may be quite hard. But if we want to save ourselves and this ecosystem we need to fight with those poachers by enforcing our laws and orders more efficiently.

Before I stop I would like to express my gratitude to this lovely community which I got here who encourages me to think and do well.