This year’s theme: Connecting People and Planet:
- Role of digital technology in promoting wildlife.
Wildlife is an essential part of our universe. It has its own identity, its own existence, its own space. Animals, birds, creeping beings, and even plants and trees are part and parcel of wildlife existence. All these have life and promote life.
They are to be considered our co-travellers on planet erath. Our mother earth is rich with these resources too.
We human beings need to respect their existence and their exercise of co-travelling with us.
They are not there to cater to our greed and passion. They enrich biodiversity and help promote ecological balance.They need our care, protection and conservation, as much as we need them.
In our commercial avarice and selfishness, we cut down forests, deplete forest wealth, hunt animals and birds, and destroy flora and fona.
If wild animals are coming to our human habitations, it is not to kill us out of enmity. Forest resources are depleting. Their food resources and water channels are becoming rare commodities. The green cover and their abode are getting heated up. Hence, they are forced to move out, look for food and drink, even alcoholic drinks brewed in village homes.
We human beings are not saints in this respect. We are party to destroying green cover, stealing forest resources and, in the process, laying out a red carpet to animals for their forage into our land. They do not come for a picnic to our wonderland, but to satiate themselves with food and drink.
The theme, connecting people with wildlife through technology, is a good exercise. But, we also need to connect with wildlife in good relationship. We need to reach out to wildlife with emotional vibrations, realizing that it is co-traveller with us. We need to respect its space and security. Invading its privacy by destroying its abode for making multi lane roads for luxury vehicles, for erecting commercial enterprises and for our greed will mean that we are declaring war on eco-balance and biodiversity.
Our sense and sensibility need to help us tread on caution and to promote wildlife that will, in turn, help our human life and the good of our mother earth.
Live and let other beings live. If technology helps us in this matter, well and good. Technology need not be used only for wildlife mapping or signalling animal movements. Technology should also mean teaching humans to connect with creation with respect, care and a sense of companionship.
