Justifying Animals’ Rights

Animals should be treated well, fellas!

private photo ( Prague Zoo)

The world's conduct to animals and the activists are not fair. People even believe that it is not a major concern, proven by the absence of the Nobel Prize Award for the Animal Rights category.

Nobel prize award, the ultimate grant for individuals who shape the globe significantly, is about to celebrate its 114th annual celebration in December this year since it was initiated in 1901. Along with its worldwide publication, the Committee has aired its youngest Nobel Prize winner of all time, the mighty-Pakistani Malala Yousafzai (17 years old) who won the Peace Prize category last year.

A testimonial award should be paid for her contribution to struggling for the equality of education, particularly for females in Pakistan. And the same goes for the other winners who have proven the benefits of their remarkable research, findings, and invention for the sake of the human race.

I strongly believe that innumerable people out there have the same dreams --- giving the best for the planet. However, at the same time, people around the world, including the Nobel Committee, neglect one crucial topic to be analyzed for its class.

Animals --- which are part of the essential elements of the world, even precede humans in God's creation --- deserve to obtain their rights. They play a solid position on the planet. They operate as one of the key factors in balancing the world's ecosystem. Losing them means losing the world.

Due to their vital roles on Earth, people should treat them adequately. Has anyone ever imagined what will pass off if suddenly, by all means, animals can talk and think intelligently? What, then, will they do?

Theoretically, they will probably sue, seek justice or even attack us, humans, for our centuries of wrong handling. What it exposed on the sequel of science-fiction movie Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Planet of the Apes II could serve us to figure out the possibilities.

Here what happened in the movie. Its main character, Caesar, a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug, seeking justice for his fellow inmates. Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He, then, assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary --- putting man and ape on a collision course that could convert the planet forever.

Apes are physically stronger than humans, and I am sure we are all threatened by them. Thanks to God because He does not favor the animals with the ability to talk, and luckily there is no such form of an experiment so far. Nevertheless, our awareness of animal rights is yet far off. Deforestation, illegal logging, illegal hunting, illegal fishing, illegal mining, and illegal occupying of forests and seas by humans end of the chaotic result: the clash between humans and beasts.

Based on some data taken from WWF, by 2003 Indonesia owned 109 million hectares of forests, the third-largest state of tropical rain forest along with the planet following Brazil and Congo. These forests are also home to 38,000 floras, 515 mammals, 511 reptiles, 1,531 bird species.

Nevertheless, started in 1970, Indonesia has been losing its forests massively. As recorded from 1997-2000, Indonesia lost around 2,8 million hectares of forests annually. Millions of hectares of forests have been transformed into industrial plantations to supply the need of 80 million cubic meters of timber processing industry, in which half of them benefited from illegal logging practices.

Alas, it has named Indonesia as one of the world's leading greenhouse gas polluters and animal slaughters through land clearing, draining peatlands and yearly forest firing. Thousands of animals are crucified intentionally.

As a resolution, disputes between humans and animals spring up as an aftermath of nutrient shortage and the demolition of the home ground. Animals, instinctually, will strain to generate it at all prices.

It is patently clear that humans are greedy, egoistic and have lost their humanity concerning the wildlife. They should not fail to bid up their duty on Earth, protecting all God's masterpieces.

Apart from deforestation, wildlife hunting and trading are becoming serious problems today.  A great deal of critically endangered species, such as Sumatran tigers, elephants, the orangutan is being sold in the disastrous market. The motive is mainly the economy; their high-priced value is so tempting. Hence, the episode of hunting and trading starts.

So, it's time for us to ponder on the existence of our wildlife, not just ours. Efforts must be added continuously. Each government around the globe is required to take immediate and more precise action, for example, adding more rangers to safeguarding forests, implementing maximum punishment for those who violate animal rights and rewarding committed activists who fight to stop this misconduct.

Rewarding these committed people is unrivaled of the vital topics that we have disobeyed so far. Lots of prominent people have been rewarded with a Nobel Prize, considering their extraordinary work of humanity and human rights.

But, to some extent, the same appreciation doesn't go with activists who defend the rights of the animals. The world ought to be impartial to the activists who persistently conserving and preserving the life of our world's wildlife.

Why there is no Nobel Prize award given to activists still remains an untold story till nowadays. Have we lost our sincere to those creatures? Or is it only our rhetorical speeches saying that we care or love the animals? It is unfair, though.

Animals deserve to advance animal rights not only by reason of they are part of the planet but also since they are living creatures, just like us.

We must justify animals’ rights.