It Is Ecosystem, Not Egotism

8813, aka 8^th August, 2013, shall be imprinted in memory a day of extreme disappointment and anger towards unlearned consumers.

One atrocity after another, ensuing more destruction than before, as the latest major smuggle bust a week ago in Hong Kong on ivory, animals' tusk and skins has attested. An uncontrolled industry


endorsed by the travesty of a herd of consumer’s heinous wants. A destructive industry kowtowed to distasteful and obnoxious new and increasing affluence.

His heart wrenched hard and painful a coercing thought of the hundreds or a thousand of elephant, rhino, leopard, and others' animal tortured and killed in this bust alone. In strict religious sense, they are god-sent animals to partake in the continuance, sustenance and maintenance of the whole ecosystem; in firm naturalism sense, they are Nature's gifts help to protect and adhere to a coexistence compulsory for a healthy earth.

Yet, in the last decade, global wealth spiked so sharply for a herd of egotistic, impassive and provincial consumers that, in the worst scenario that transpired, to sentence a rapid death to animals and the ecosystem. Killing many endangered species to decorate their homes with animals' death, adorn with many things a sure symbol of sentenced death.


GOLDEN DAY

Proper re-education or rehabilitation is exactly this wild herd of unruly compositions needed. How do they brag their ginormous ego to their descendants a display of a decorated tusks or taxidermy Siberian tiger? Sadly, the blogger has lost no doubts that their old money or new found affluence have thrust them into a deluded reality prizing animal parts in costly expense of our aging and ailing ecosystem.

These consumers and proud collectors usurped their current pleasure and luxury with their wealth to leave a legacy their descendants one day will regret; unless they move to Mars.

For readers to why poachers risk life and smugglers jail, here are two excerpts:

1) Ivory can fetch up to $2,000 per kilogram ($910 per pound) on the black market and more than $50,000 for an entire tusk. Read here for details, Ivory Smuggling Hong Kong, huffingtonpost.com

2) Officials found 1,200 polished ivory tusks, 13 black and white rhino horns and five leopard skins, according to the South China Morning Post. The ivory was reportedly worth more than $1,000 per kilogram, the rhino horns more than $25,000 per kilogram and the leopard skins could fetch tens of thousands of dollars each on the illegal blackmarket. Click here for details,.natureworldnews.com, hong-kong-officials-seize-1-200-elephant-tusks-13-rhino

Top Image: 35. Rhino and two zebras under cloudy sky in the savanna in Kenya. (© Robin Moore / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest), Click here for more stunning photos.

Bottom Image: Golden Day, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/serengeti-lion/index.html?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20130815&utm_campaign=Content#/golden-day