This is the third in 3 short posts while I've been writing a longer document on the plight of the leopard which will go elsewhere. Many thanks to those who read these posts, those who care about such matters.
When you spend a lot of time in wild places, where wild animals live, both the complexity and simplicity of nature enters your being. You realize that the man made constructs of protected areas as against non protected areas, the protected status of a species, the perception of that species, our own labeling of whether that species is "conservation dependent" or not, all these things start to blow in the face of what nature is really all about.
Politics, economics and agendas have made these constructs flawed, our relationship and connection with nature has been disturbed accordingly. It's about time more questions were asked about the management of these constructs, these are serious questions, ecosystems and lives of sentient beings depend on them...
A good meeting with Park officials yesterday gave me positive energy as the Leopard Transit Area enters its next phase, the discussion added a little soothing to the bites and cuts on my body, the aching muscles. Soon I'll be back in mountains where a part of me already is, I guess I'll have a chance to revisit myself in a way... but only with quiet breath because in these critical times for wildlife, for persecuted animals like the leopard, introspection must be kept short, in its place, just a part of things...
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