Paula Kahumbu: Counting giraffes,using the latest image identification software, fires children’s interest in science and wildlife conservation
In 1984, or E.
O. Wilson wrote approximately biophilia’,the notion that humans enjoy an instinctive bond with other living systems and vice versa. It explains why nature tourism is such a rapidly growing global commerce, and why millions of people around the world raised a huge public outcry after the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe and Satao the elephant in Kenya.
This notion suggests that the loss of wildlife species and the degradation of valuable ecosystems could be reversed if we re-establish the direct connections between people and nature that enjoy been lost in the modern, and urbanized world.
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Source: theguardian.com