Lonesome George Reflection
People would want to save endangered species because they are small in
size and want them to exist in the world. They also do that with species
because they are vital to the ecosystem. But what if they were just dying
because of natural selection and they were not needed by the ecosystem? Then
that would mean it would be all right for it to go extinct. If humans were not
involved in this process (because humans are normally the cause of it – e.g.
pouching, hunting and many more.) then that would mean it was a natural process
and not an unnatural one. It is
important to let the nature decide for itself in its natural way.
While my EVS class was working on this subject of natural selection, my
EVS teacher brought this post about Lonesome George. Lonesome George is a
tortoise and is the last from its species. In class we discussed how we could
stop species for going extinct. We had lots of ideas like storing sperms and
eggs of species, transporting these species to different places, making special
parks for them and so on. Then the discussion went on to how species went
extinct through natural and unnatural causes and if it was all right for them
to die if it was a natural process. The conclusion we made was surrounded with
the idea of natural selection, where if the extinction of a specie was due to a
natural process (them not surviving or adaption) then they should allow what the
nature wants. But if an animal was endangered due to human involvement then
that would mean the humans should somehow stop that from happening and help the
population to rise again. For example in Lonesome George’s cause the tortoise
started to become endangered because humans started to settle down and because
of that they started rising goats. The goats started to eat all the grass that
the tortoise ate. This cause the death of many tortoises, because they had to
search for food further out, they could not mate and reproduce. So, this caused
the tortoise to become endangered and left Lonesome George all alone. Since humans
caused this specie to become endangered, this made it into an unnatural process.
This example shows that people should be more aware of their surrounding and
the effect they have one it and this is the conclusion we came up with as a
class.
My point of giving this story was because I wanted to show people that
when teachers put up interesting live example in class, it just livens up the
class. It makes it more interesting for students to learn and when people have
fun, they do not mind thinking. The productive discussion we had in class
showed that we were having fun as well as thinking and producing good ideas. So,
examples help students help more in thinking productively and have more fun in
class.
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Excellent point.
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