As we all know that the city has a very rich wildlife within its limits, there are some serious things that cannot be ignored. It is all about the rehabilitation of the rescued species by various organizations/individuals and the concerned government departments. Today the main reason for the human-animal conflict is because of the miss management of wildlife.We will concentrate on the dumping of species.
There are several organizations and individuals in the city who claim to rescue the wild animals, birds and reptiles in distress. The whole city feels its a job by doing which you get blessed! This is unfortunately not the truth, a very sorry moment to reveal the fact that the rescue of animals in distress or causing distress has increased as compared to the past but the rehabilitation is very poor.
Several animals are rescued every year but they are not released properly, which actually is a major concern for the future. Maximum wild animals are more territorial as compared to the stray or domestic ones and thus the job of rescuing and rehabilitating them is not so easy as it looks.
For instance any reptile rescued from a place is supposed to be rehabilitated within 3 kilo meters according to the international protocols, however this is not possible in a city like ours. But it is very important to relocate the wildkinds to a near distance that where it is done today. Organizations and individuals not all but many - who call it rehabilitation are actually dumping the rescued species which is unethical as well as something which created a negative impact on the habitat where released.
Introducing any species to a new area is a sort of experiment and it has been proved over the years that this practice is actually not kind job. At the same time it is a shame on the part of the concerned authorities that they are not capable of regulating and maintaining the balance. When an animal,bird,reptile is introduced to a new place while rehabilitation many factors are supposed to be checked and rechecked. A rescue cannot be called a rescue unless there is a successful rehabilitation - and a successful rehabilitation in this city is not a joke. Like humans - even animals are facing the shortage of space - all because of human errors on various stages and ignorance towards wildlife unless there is a problem/ distress.
According to the protocols that I had come across when I wear the shoes of a rescuer - any rescued snake is supposed to be rehabilitated in the mangroves , so its amazing to think that how a tree snake or a snake which belongs to a different habitat will survive there.Maximum snakes in the city enter into the open drainage system during the rains from the national park and such green patches. Also if over the years it learns to survive somewhere where it is not supposed to - how will it affect the existing species today and tomorrow. There are many such dangerous questions that many may come across everyday.
Today in Mumbai we all know the craze of pets and the super craze of pet reptile and other wildlkinds both legal and illegal. Imported as well as native species of wildkinds are kept as pets by the people and one final day many of the owners realize that they can not take further care of them and thus feel to do a task to releasing the animal in the wild thinking that setting the imported foreign animal free in the native wild habitat here is a very noble cause. Today majority of the city's lakes are filled with imported turtles,fishes,crocodiles and so on, and similar is the case with the birds and animals too these days we rescue love birds and imported parrots too. We can call it the failure of the system for what is happening within the city today , the infected roots are located deep but are detected I just wonder when will they be uprooted - something next to impossible.
It is a very sincere request to all the current organizations and individuals in the city to think about it , if this continues - in the future there will be nothing to rescue and not because every thing will be sorted but because everything will be destroyed. Time to unite and move in a similar direction if not same, and thus spread awareness and practice something which is actual and ethical.
There are several organizations and individuals in the city who claim to rescue the wild animals, birds and reptiles in distress. The whole city feels its a job by doing which you get blessed! This is unfortunately not the truth, a very sorry moment to reveal the fact that the rescue of animals in distress or causing distress has increased as compared to the past but the rehabilitation is very poor.
Several animals are rescued every year but they are not released properly, which actually is a major concern for the future. Maximum wild animals are more territorial as compared to the stray or domestic ones and thus the job of rescuing and rehabilitating them is not so easy as it looks.
For instance any reptile rescued from a place is supposed to be rehabilitated within 3 kilo meters according to the international protocols, however this is not possible in a city like ours. But it is very important to relocate the wildkinds to a near distance that where it is done today. Organizations and individuals not all but many - who call it rehabilitation are actually dumping the rescued species which is unethical as well as something which created a negative impact on the habitat where released.
Introducing any species to a new area is a sort of experiment and it has been proved over the years that this practice is actually not kind job. At the same time it is a shame on the part of the concerned authorities that they are not capable of regulating and maintaining the balance. When an animal,bird,reptile is introduced to a new place while rehabilitation many factors are supposed to be checked and rechecked. A rescue cannot be called a rescue unless there is a successful rehabilitation - and a successful rehabilitation in this city is not a joke. Like humans - even animals are facing the shortage of space - all because of human errors on various stages and ignorance towards wildlife unless there is a problem/ distress.
According to the protocols that I had come across when I wear the shoes of a rescuer - any rescued snake is supposed to be rehabilitated in the mangroves , so its amazing to think that how a tree snake or a snake which belongs to a different habitat will survive there.Maximum snakes in the city enter into the open drainage system during the rains from the national park and such green patches. Also if over the years it learns to survive somewhere where it is not supposed to - how will it affect the existing species today and tomorrow. There are many such dangerous questions that many may come across everyday.
Today in Mumbai we all know the craze of pets and the super craze of pet reptile and other wildlkinds both legal and illegal. Imported as well as native species of wildkinds are kept as pets by the people and one final day many of the owners realize that they can not take further care of them and thus feel to do a task to releasing the animal in the wild thinking that setting the imported foreign animal free in the native wild habitat here is a very noble cause. Today majority of the city's lakes are filled with imported turtles,fishes,crocodiles and so on, and similar is the case with the birds and animals too these days we rescue love birds and imported parrots too. We can call it the failure of the system for what is happening within the city today , the infected roots are located deep but are detected I just wonder when will they be uprooted - something next to impossible.
It is a very sincere request to all the current organizations and individuals in the city to think about it , if this continues - in the future there will be nothing to rescue and not because every thing will be sorted but because everything will be destroyed. Time to unite and move in a similar direction if not same, and thus spread awareness and practice something which is actual and ethical.
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