Nowadays, developed medical treatment could help people to cure their illness. Why do we need to kill tigers or other animals?
In addition, it is no exaggeration to say that in some counties, tiger parts are a delicacy that is served at special private banquets. The rising demand for tiger parts and rapid increase in price of tiger bone continues to be an irresistible incentive to poachers. By killing the tigers, we not only harm tigers, but also ourselves. The tiger thus becomes the symbol for the protection of all species on our earth since it is at the top of the food chain. This is why we sometimes call the tiger, an apex predator and an indicator of our ecosystem's health. In short, killing tigers means hurting the earth. High price for little gain. Not worth it!
Clarkson also argues that extinction of tigers is none of us business. “ I’ve never seen any number of creatures that I know to exist. So why should I care if my children never see a tiger?” Through this sentence can show his view. What a ludicrous claim! Contrary to this view, I think tigers are the same as human beings, both of us are the member of the big family- earth. Firstly, tigers are at the top of the food chain, the disappearance of tigers will breaks the ecological balance because the food chain is destroyed. In general, the extinction of tigers can seriously threaten and destroy the ecological environment and biological diversity. What’s more, that’s so sad if our children can’t see the tigers in the future. The extinction of tigers reduces the chance of get to know and understand them. Of course we can’t deny that some of us have never seen a wild animal, but it doesn’t mean that is no matter if our children have no chance to see them in the future. Maybe they can only know these animals through text books or internet, that is unfair for our offspring. In other words, to protect tigers is to protect human beings ourselves!
When the writer says “Honestly, who cares because there are quite literally millions more fish in the sea.” Obviously, he doesn’t worry about the extinction of tigers because there are numbers of new species are discovered every day. I must disagree with him because that is absolutely wrong! Until recently it has been hoped that the speed of which new species were evolving could keep pace with the loss of diversity of life. But from some researches we can know that the speed of extinction of animals is faster than the speed of discovery of new species. Because of the illegal hunt, habitat loss and climate change.
There have a great relationship between animals and human beings. We are interdependent because all of us are the member of the nature. Thus all life forms, including tigers, interlink with each other within an ecosystem.
Protecting tigers is thus vital to the conservation of many other rare and threatened species. The tiger has just as much a right to life as we have so we absolutely need to protect them. It is right that people have the right to express their point of view or contribute to discuss which topic they wish. But we should also use our discrimination to identify right and wrong. In general, I disagree with Clarkson’s point of view. On the other hand, I think the ‘The Sun Times’ need to improve, because this article just offered one argument about whether the protect tiger or not; just to write on one hand is not beneficial for all the readers.
Yours Sincerely
Elowen Jiang
