Is this what we really want and desire for?

Today while I was driving back home in the afternoon the Sun was right there making my life quite miserable. It was pretty warm. I almost thought that it was the month of April/May but then realized that it’s just the first week of February. I always thought that February was suppose to be pleasant but then things are changing very fast. A lot is still waiting for us.

Back at home, I was flipping through pages of the National Geographic Magazine when I came across this article which dampened my mood which was already as good as the global economic conditions. The article reads as…..

…….In the death of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Indian tigers have lost their "chief protector", says the National Geographic Magazine. 'The Project Tiger', initiated by Indira Gandhi in 1973, resulted in the doubling of their numbers by the time she died in 1984 and after that it began to decline. "The tigers began to disappear. It was discovered they were being poisoned, shot and snared so their bones could be smuggled out of India to supply manufacturers of Chinese medicines," it adds. The Project Tiger had set aside nine national parks for special protection. The plan seemed to be working officials announced in 1984 that the number of tigers had more than doubled. But the death of Gandhi later that year meant the loss of the tiger’s chief protector. "Human population rose and promised safe corridors were converted to farmers fields, inundated by dams and honeycombed with coal mines. There were fewer and fewer places to which young tigers could disperse and more and more conflicts between tigers and people," it adds. Extended field research and documentation by author of the report for the magazine Geoffrey C. Ward and photographer Michael Nicoals have been shown that despite some progress in preserving the species the future of the tiger remains perilous. Nicoals spent more than a year on the assignment, photographing tigers in seven countries and enjoying unusual access to the parks in India where tigers live.

I put aside the magazine. I felt really small and somewhat ashamed of myself and my fellow human beings. I asked to myself “is this what we really want and desire for”? We have just become slaves to technology and desire to excel. We all desire to excel but the cost we are paying in doing that is very high. Tigers are beautiful creatures which have been an important part of wildlife for many years. But this beautiful creature is on the verge of extinction. Soon they will be wiped off from the face of the earth if we do not wake up and do something to protect them. The day is not far they will become a thing which will become a part of museums across the globe.

Can’t we do something to protect something which is so beautiful and graceful from becoming extinct? Is it that only one person had the intention and capability of protecting them? No, it’s not true. We all together can help them to live. I do believe that we can find out ways to make medicines which does not require bones of tiger. I am sure we are more intelligent than that.