blog 7: species given new trade protection

This article discusses how conservationists held meetings to help protect endangered species around the globe by trying to push for better regulation around international trade. Some types of species that have been impacted deeply and threatened are sharks. This has dropped a lot because their fins are used for trade. Though this is a step this article is still recognizing that there is far more to go to creating effective wildlife protection.

This article is related to the idea of capitalism and how society feeds of money. We often make choices by trying to reach success through a hierarchy and class. We make a hierarchy of animals in our universe and use them for our advantage. What we don’t always directly take into account is the disadvantages that are to take place. This is relative to environmental destruction. Though trade helps for advancement of globalization we are creating what we find as resources to shrink and eventually become extinct. Animals give us resources such as how we discussed in class now that bees are being less populated it is making nuts more scarce. Well a way of regulating that is by raising the price of the nuts, but the increase of price does bring back the nuts. What I get from this article is that we need to try to think in different ways about our environment and not see it as we take, but also think about what we give back to the environment. Soon enough we won’t be able to use the same natural resources as we have been once before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/earth/dozens-of-species-given-new-trade-protections.html?ref=environment