17/05/2022
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Apart from the excitement of running through the bomas setting up action shots that demonstrate the high intensity of the whole game capture operation. The main purpose for me has been to showcase the management involved within modern conservation where private reserves are involved.
We still carry around the ideal and belief that somehow habitat is better off without any human influence. That might be true if there wasn’t so many of us populating the planet, however, it is for this reason that we are now an integral part of the future success of wild places. Understanding what is involved in managing habitat is part of my mission when posting to IG and to show that there isn’t one perfect way to do this. As long as people are invested in protecting landscapes more habitat becomes available to biodiversity in its entirety. Working to create better practices and ethics in these places is the mission of any conservationist. Excluding different management structures like hunting or game breeding to favour eco-tourism only deals a blow to biodiversity down the line. Why.....? People like connivence and frankly some places are just to inconvenient to travel to. So how do we fund more habitat in undesirable places?
Understanding the realities that biodiversity face and the losses that come with people making uninformed emotional decisions is the modern conservationists challenge when it comes to conserving more wild spaces for animals and for people. How do we teach local communities to protect their natural heritage in its most pristine state if we don’t enable them gleam an income from it?
We need to understand these issue on a level beyond our own feelings and emotions in order to affect real change. Have you tried it lately? To objectively shelve your opinion to understand what is best for areas of habitat on a case by case bases. Challenge yourself to challenge your understanding of some of these deeper issues.
