Should we give nature a helping hand

In the BBC programme “planet earth” this week, there is an interesting story which triggered some debate around the topic “should we give nature a helping hand”. When the TV crew was shooting the penguins in South Pole, they spot this new born baby penguin stuck in an ice pole and couldn’t get out. Her parents were helplessly watching their baby trembling in the hole trying to get out but couldn’t help. The TV crew, who have been there for months in that cold winter filming these penguins, first thought they should stick with their rules – don’t interfere, let the nature rule, but later on decided to help the poor little thing to get out of the hole. The baby penguin joined her family, though the question remains for the TV crew and the audience, should we give month nature a helping hand?

Personally I think it is very difficult not to, when it is such an easy job for us to help out the vulnerable, why not. After all, we all have sympathy for the vulnerable and less fortunate ones. And consciously or subconsciously, we always have been interfering or trying to influence what is happening in the nature. Admit it or not, we human beings, is the biggest enemy of nature. We have done so many terrible destructions to the forest, and endless poaching has driven a lot of animals into extinction. Needless to say, global warming is testing the limits of how far this could go before we have to fight for our own survival.

On the other hand, we have been gearing up efforts to help the beloved animals. Panda presents a classic example of an animal which is very vulnerable to climate change, destruction of the certain forest, but let’s face it, this is not an animal equipped to deal with the change. And its poor ability of breeding contributes partly to its rapidly decreasing number. Yet, we decided since all children and adults love this cute bear, so we have to help them to survive. And how far we have gone, well, we have forced the panda couples to watch panda porns so that they would be more interested in getting intimate with each other so that they could make more baby pandas for us. I am sure there are a lot of other animals out there on the verge of extinction but we choose not to “interfere” that much because the nature of the law has to rule. Well, in Panda’s case, we are very reluctant to let the nature rule. But other less fortunately animals, such as crocodiles, even they are being killed by human being for their skin and meat, we don’t seem to worry that much, after all, they look quite scary and they are aggressive animals and they might attack human beings.