In the 1960's, Rachel Carson wrote a book entitled The Silent Spring. This book was very significant in alerting Americans to the danger of so much environmental pollution occurring that we would wake up some spring day and hear no birds singing. How tragic that would have been! Besides completing an important ecological balance for nature, birds give us much pleasure in their twirping, chirping, and warbling every morning at dawn and later. Her message awakened many Americans to the need to protect and preserve wildlife, not only birds, but also many other forms of wildlife. Now there are many environmental protection groups in the US, including the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the Nature Conservancy. There is now even a Green Party, modeled after the environmentally friendly Green parties in Western Europe. US states have prescribed hunting seasons for deer, rabbits, birds and certain other wild animals. This helps to maintain a healthy natural balance, without allowing species to be exterminated or to become over excessively populated.
Going to or coming from a meeting at my university in America at night, or driving in the country, we can often see small wild animals, and often two or three deer. Outside my home, besides the many birds in the trees, there are often bushy tailed squirrels leaping from branch to branch. Driving up to Lake Ontario fifteen minutes north of my home, it is possible to see larger fish or schools of small fish in the water. We need to have wild animals available in nature, quite apart from zoos, for the future balance of the earth. US state and national parks have the duty to preserve wild life for future generations. One of the largest nature reserves in the world is Kruger Park in South Africa, which is larger than many US states or Chinese provinces. All humans have the responsibility to protect our wildlife so that we can enjoy it for generations to come.