▶ Your Answer :
Some people think that it is more important
to use lands for saving endangered animals than for human needs such as
farming, housing, industry. However, I believe that using lands for human needs
is more important than for using lands for endangered animals. This is because
changing lands for human needs can develop the country’s economy. While using
lands for endangered animals is not an effective way to prevent endangered
species.
To begin with, there are many developing
countries in the world. These countries mostly don’t have well-installed
infrastructures such as a public health organization and education centers.
Lack of these facilities, a lot of people in the world are exposed to severe
illnesses and crimes. In this regard, I firmly believe that the government
should plan to develop their lands for human needs. Interestingly, there was a
statistical data investigated by a professor at Seoul National University as 20
well-developed countries and 20 developing countries as objects. The purpose of
the investigation was to reveal the relationship between a level of countries’
land development and their incidence rate. The most of well-developed nations
had a high proportion of civilized area that had many public facilities and
they tended to indicate low-incidence rates. As the investigation shows,
incidence rate can be reduced by constructing public facilities for human
needs.
On the top of that, using lands for animals
cannot be a fundamental solution to protect endangered species. This is
attributed to the fact that the most serious problem in the current ecosystem
is the introduction of alien species. A renowned animal scientist in South
Korea published an article at last Sunday, which claimed that a lot of endemic
animals are in danger because of inflowing of alien predators. The article
showed that a 60percent of 3000 native species is annually killed by these
alien animals. In other words, to protect them, governments should do their
efforts to manage the alien predators. If the government would just preserve
land for endangered animals without managing alien animals, they would not
solve the problem.
To sum up, I strongly believe that it is
more important to use lands for human needs. Consequently, the importance of my
view cannot be underestimated by the reasons that I have mentioned above. |