I’m personally convinced that life is all about a good balance, in anything. And I actually never understood extremes and how it’s possible to fight for wildlife conservation in the expense of humanity, or -the other way around- to encourage and support capitalism at any costs.
The human-wildlife conflict keeps dividing us so much -which is ridiculous because we’re all on the same ship.
Human-wildlife relationship is not about how to make nonsense sacrifices but to learn*, to understand, to respect, and to cohabit.
*role of the rangers | who are the poachers | the poaching business | cultures | communities around | etc.
To be able to save our wildlife and to rewild the world, we need to raise awareness and to spread knowledge about this subject to the new generation and not only, we need to protect our rangers, to understand the poaching circuit and who are the poachers before blaming all of them, to find alternatives (for the communities around, for the poachers to be re accepted in the society again, etc).
Yes, the relationship between wildlife and humans is a huge problem with enormous impacts we need to anticipate.
For instance, mountain gorillas are now expanding but their habitat is reducing. How do we do then?
It’s a big subject, it’s a big work ahead of us but we can do it only if we never forget that the 2 are intrinsically linked together: LET’S SAVE OUR WILDLIFE AND PROTECT THE PEOPLE / US.
(For those who remember my stay at Charles’s lodge -when camping on the parking lot- these beautiful Ugandan women are were working in one of the fields he gave them. Such a beautiful moment.)
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