Thrilling and Exciting Wild Life Adventure Tours

Life without adventure is quite dull and monotonous. We should try to experience adventures of any type whenever there is an opportunity. The adventurous wildlife tours can give you immense pleasure and excitement. You can discover such happiness in beautiful and exotic parks of Kaziranga, Ranthambore, Sundarbans, Jim Corbett, Kanha and Bandipur national parks.

The tours are most enjoyable during the autumn and winter seasons. One can have fun and amusement in the wildness and tranquility of nature. The mesmerizing beauty of the parks and sanctuaries is the habitat for a variety of creatures on earth. For example the Sunderbans of Bengal are home for the Royal Bengal Tigers, Asiatic Lions in Gir National Park in Gujarat and snow leopard in the Nanda Devi National Park. One can find here dwelling in abundance rhinoceros along the Brahmaputra river, Indian elephants in north east part of country and special blue eyed white tigers in the Nandan Kanan in Orissa. Poisonous cobras can be found in Sunderbans and Jim Corbett park.

These are so lethal that they can kill an elephant with one bite.

One can experience the joy of dancing peacocks in the forests of Indian peninsula. There are many tour packages that have been designed for the comfort and convenience of tourists. You can find diversity in every type of wildlife tour whether it is that of bird watching, elephant or tiger tours. Each will give you a feeling of pleasure and thrill. The Jim Corbett National park is the first example of a wildlife park in the country. It is visited by many lovers of wildlife who come here to feel close to nature and its beauty. If you are confused regarding planning a trip during your vacations then you must opt for a wildlife park or sanctuary.

The Delicate Balance of Life

Have you ever thought how the extinction of only one species can negatively impact our world?

When one species is threatened with extinction, whole ecosystems as well as other species are deeply affected. We might hold the notion that this cannot really affect us individually, that we are some how not a part of all this. But the truth is, we simply cannot interfere with nature without dire consequences to all life - including human.

Each species indirectly protects many other species within any given ecosystem, or ecological community. It is similar to a human community, which provides for the protection and survival of the people within its habitat. Everyone must do his or her part. They all have a vital role to play. There is a giving and receiving. It is the same for every other species and every habitat.

But we must also reach out beyond these narrow boundaries to interrelate to the whole. The sustenance we need to survive critically depends upon the well-being and health of other species and their habitats. It requires always a giving and receiving; for humans this means acquiring a gentle respect and understanding for all life, and a caring for the earth.

In the natural order of things, a harmonious balance already exists between all living species - human, animal, marine life, and plant life. But the human race has broken this sacred chain of life. Humanity is the only species that lives almost wholly through its thinking mind, to the detriment of the heart. We have been given a great gift - the gift of conscious awareness, the ability to step outside ourselves and to witness our self. It is now time for us to take up the responsibility that goes with that gift.

We are all interconnected, but we humans do not see it; we have lost the memory of how to see. We no longer know how to connect ourselves to the whole, or what it means to live in tune to the rhythm and harmony of all things; or what it means to function more from the heart as well as the mind.

There are many efforts underway to protect endangered species, and conservation planning efforts to protect and restore lost habitats, such as the World Wild Life Fund and the Conservation Planning Institute. But it is a universal change of consciousness that is needed now for the survival of this planet. And this can only happen through human beings.

Wildlife Conservation and a Wild Life

Shamwari Game Reserve has attracted some famous guests over the past few years, from Brad Pitt to Tiger Woods and John Travolta. However, the game reserve now has a film crew of their own; meet Johan Joubert and the cast of Shamwari: A Wild Life.

If you're dreaming of taking a wildlife conservation holiday in the future, then Shamwari: A Wild Life can give you an insight as to what to expect on your stay. The TV show which appears on Animal Planet at 8pm on weeknights promises to give viewers an insight into 'The African Dream' by following the rangers in their attempts at wildlife conservation, and also the animals that make the reserve their home.

The first episode of the first series had a memorable start, as the series opened with footage of a white rhino pounding a pick-up truck. The white rhino had just been released into the wild, by wildlife conservationists, following medical attention, and decided that the pick-up truck was the perfect place in which to vent out his frustrations. Another episode saw Siobhan and Johan wrestling an eland antelope to the floor. As the animal was so fast it took a team of twenty people to wrestle it the ground, this involved a lot of running, to keep up with the antelope.

However, scenes like this are just a regular day at the office for Johan Joubert and the rest of the Shamwari crew. If you take a wildlife conservation holiday then you may even find yourself taking part in similar experiences. It is common for students to be called onto the reserve early or have their lessons interrupted when an animal at the reserve needs urgent attention. Johan has even been known to film several scenes of 'A Wild Life' in the Shamwari classroom, so if you answer that question on wildlife conservation particularly brilliantly you may even find yourself on television.

If you've seen episode seven, in which the Shamwari team tackled a mammoth white rhino into a large truck, then you could be forgiven for worrying about the prospect of taking a wildlife conservation holiday. However, there's no need to be cautious as the team at Shamwari won't let you take part in anything that you haven't been trained to do or which puts you at risk. No students took part in moving the charging rhino, and the staff that did had been trained and knew the necessary protocol to do the job correctly. That isn't to say that your wildlife conservation experience won't be hands-on, actually far from it. If you've studied as a vet in the UK and decide to make your wildlife conservation holiday, 'Vets Go Wild' you could find yourself administering medication to both small animals and treating large animals, whilst anesthetized of course.

In Episode sixteen, Lyndal, Peta-Lynn and Karla became 'mummys' to a cute baby elephant, named Themba. If you take your wildlife conservation holiday at the Shamwari Reserve then you could find yourself babysitting this very elephant overnight. Students at the reserve can take their sleeping bags and camp in his enclosure, waking up at regular intervals to bottle feed him. Mummying is also a big part of life at Moholoholo and students at the reserve could find themselves responsible for the day to day care of anything from a baby dussie to a boisterous baby rhino.

So tune into the series on a weeknight and begin to imagine what it is like to be on a wildlife conservation holiday. A year from now you could even see yourself on the other side of the screen.

Wild Animal Endangerment

Wild animals are beautiful creatures with varying sizes, colors, and habitats. Although some can be seen in zoos, the place they are meant to be is in their own environment. Unfortunately, animals such as whales, panda bears and sea otters, are not always safe in these places and are dying out. What is causing their threat of extinction? Several factors have an influence on this growing problem.

Pollution

Because animals are all intertwined on the food chain, contamination of a water source that a species drinks for example, will not only effect them, but the animal that eats them as well, having the ability to cause cancer and other deadly diseases. If a mother drinks toxins, they become apart of her milk and she passes on those toxins to her babies. Because the off spring are considerably smaller than the mother, these chemicals and toxins will have a greater negative impact on them. Among these problems is a shorter life span, directly effecting the time they have to reproduce and multiply their species, not to mention the damage the pollutions have already caused on their systems and ability to thrive.

Contamination of water due to oil spills is another large problem. Because oil and water do not mix, and oil floats to the top and spreads easily and quickly, it is that much harder to clean up. Oil spills may be due to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, or can happen by people who do not want to dispose of oil properly and dump it into the ocean to get rid of it. Birds can be covered and will not be able to fly because of their feathers being covered. Oil covers sea otters and coats their fur, covering the air bubbles in their fur which are there to help them stay warm in freezing waters. Due to the oil coating these bubbles they die of hypothermia. So many different animals dying in mass quantity from oil spills also contributes to animal endangerment.

Decrease of Natural Habitat

If there are constant changes in the environment of a species, then there is subsequently constant changes in species habitat. Changes in the environment, of course, happen naturally. However, when this happens animals adapt because the changes are small, over a period of time. When humans make the changes they are more drastic and immediate. People can take out a forest in a matter of days, not giving occupants time to move to a new location in a time frame that is adaptable. To illustrate this point the habitat of the giant panda will be examined. A panda eats around 40 pounds of bamboo a day. This is due to the low nutrition of the plant and the inability of the panda to digest it. Large amounts must be consumed to get the necessary nutrients for the bear. After a bamboo plant flowers, it dies and does not regrow for another 10 years or so. If there is not another species of bamboo in that area the Panda then needs to move to another region which has bamboo still in season. Due to human activities such as farming, mining and road building quickly destroying the plants they eat it is difficult for the pandas to move to another forest to find the bamboo they need quickly.

Hunting, Fishing and Whaling

One of the greatest effects on water animals, such as whales, is exploitation. Exploitation is decreasing a particular species faster than nature is able to replace the population. Whaling has been a large contributor to the decrease of whales in the ocean. This unrestricted hunting or whaling purpose was for their skin, fur, teeth, meat or other reasons. Although some organizations, such as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have been established, as well as laws and regulations, people do not always follow these laws and whales are still hunted. Animal parts make a lot of money and illegal activities pursued for the money that people can make. In Japan whale is still a popular dish and hunted for consumption. Along with whaling other fishing takes place. Large nets for fishing can entangle species they are not meant to capture, nor desired to capture. These lives are lost as a negative by product of mass commercial fishing efforts. The large commercial fishing takes out so many animals, so quickly that they can not replace themselves.

Human carelessness seems to be the overriding influence on all these factors. As people are concerned about the impact that their choices and actions make on wild life, their habitats and environments will be protected. People taking precautions will effect the environment for humans and wild animals alike.