Stop elephant poaching – the state will be doing it anyway in South Africa
To be subjecting a society like theirs to a cull can be traumatising and is certainly not recommended. Besides,” Sukumar explains, “our ecological systems are dynamic in nature. For us to assume the carrying capacity of the land and conclude that x number of elephants in y area is ideal, is unrealistic estimation.”
The debate goes back to the 50s and 60s when relative abundance of elephants resulted in clearing up of woodlands into grasslands. Gradually the jumbos were pushed into smaller and smaller pockets of habitat, where the increasing density of the animals made it difficult for vegetation to replenish at a proportional rate, setting off the spiel on ‘over-population’. “Now, what if there was a drought like the one in Tsavo National Park, wiping out the numbers that we condescend to spare in the cull,” Sukumar reminds us of Nature’s ways of checks and balances. In 1970, a particularly dry period seared dead much of the flora and fauna in the area, establishing the eternal efficacy of Natural Selection as a tool to restore ecological equilibrium, over any man-made “toolbox of options” as Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk made sound of in his policy statement.
While India has yet to find itself in such a quandary to date, South Africa claims to have learnt its lessons from the last cull, promising to adhere to a “culling plan… with the assistance of (…) a recognised elephant management specialist.” What remains to be understood is that no amount of jargon can disguise the doom inked for the benign beasts, or reason the meddling with the concerns of the already weary Mother Nature.
To be subjecting a society like theirs to a cull can be traumatising and is certainly not recommended. Besides,” Sukumar explains, “our ecological systems are dynamic in nature. For us to assume the carrying capacity of the land and conclude that x number of elephants in y area is ideal, is unrealistic estimation.”
The debate goes back to the 50s and 60s when relative abundance of elephants resulted in clearing up of woodlands into grasslands. Gradually the jumbos were pushed into smaller and smaller pockets of habitat, where the increasing density of the animals made it difficult for vegetation to replenish at a proportional rate, setting off the spiel on ‘over-population’. “Now, what if there was a drought like the one in Tsavo National Park, wiping out the numbers that we condescend to spare in the cull,” Sukumar reminds us of Nature’s ways of checks and balances. In 1970, a particularly dry period seared dead much of the flora and fauna in the area, establishing the eternal efficacy of Natural Selection as a tool to restore ecological equilibrium, over any man-made “toolbox of options” as Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk made sound of in his policy statement.
While India has yet to find itself in such a quandary to date, South Africa claims to have learnt its lessons from the last cull, promising to adhere to a “culling plan… with the assistance of (…) a recognised elephant management specialist.” What remains to be understood is that no amount of jargon can disguise the doom inked for the benign beasts, or reason the meddling with the concerns of the already weary Mother Nature.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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