Essays on Wildlife Conservation

The US and Canada are known as one of the areas which lead the wildlife conservation action in the world. In Canada, there are governmental associations such as Canadian Wildlife Service (CWA). There are also some NGOs including Canadian Wildlife Federation, Nature Canada and WWF...

According to a report by WWF and TRAFFIC, Singapore was ranked the world’s second-largest shark fin trader by value after Hong Kong. Singapore was even found to have the world’s second-largest seizure of illegally-imported ivory in 2002. These dishonourable findings question Singapore’s role in conserving...

Environmentalism has been one of the most grounded developments for more than thirty years. Environmentalists are the main heroes behind this fight; one of them being Wallace Stegner, who never stopped battling for the trees. Throughout the years our nation has been gradually wrecking nature,...

The Wilderness Act of 1964 established that the United States, with increasing population, expanding settlement and growing mechanization, needed to preserve the enduring resource of “wilderness”. The four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS), in the Department of Agriculture; the National Park Service (NPS); Fish...

Zoos are often a very controversial subject, however, one thing that most people can agree on is the fact that they are a great way to help conserve species of threatened animals. There are four fundamental roles of a zoo, these are: Conservation, education, research...

“Poaching is the illegal harvesting of game or fish. Until the twentieth century, most poaching was subsistence hunting or fishing to augment scanty diets. In the early twenty-first century, poaching usually is committed for sport or profit”. The leading questions ask, how do we protect...

Great ethical challenges have always posed themselves when humans confront the wildlife community. Those who support hunting often cite an anthropocentric view of the interaction between man and beast dating back to Genesis. On another hand, human stewardship of creation is also a central theme...