Wild animals have no place in the 21st century, so protecting them is a waste of resources. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Some people would argue there is no room for wild

animals

to exist in the 21st

century

and it is not worth consuming resources for their protection. From my own standpoint, I totally disagree with

this

idea for a certain number of reasons clarified below.

To begin

with, we, living in the 21st

century

, have ample spaces and resources that allow us to coexist with wild

animals

without letting them die out.

First

,

although

it is a fact that there are a steadily increasing number of populations around the world in the 21st

century

, we still have empty areas and regions that

humans

have no ability to survive and develop due to extreme weather conditions or tough terrains.

However

, there are a variety of wild

animals

able to adapt to these kinds of environments;

therefore

, there is no need to eradicate their lives.

Second

, the 21st

century

is a

century

of technological advancements that has equipped

humans

with cutting-edge tools to support the belief that human beings and wild

animals

can coexist on Earth.

On the other hand

, protecting wild

animals

indirectly shades

humans

from health and economic issues.

First

of all, letting wild

animals

die out is more likely to disturb the ecological balance and the biodiversity of the natural environment, leading to the breakdown of the food chain. If wildcats,

for example

, were eliminated from forests and mountains, there would be an outbreak in the number of rats and rat-related contagious diseases would emerge

accordingly

, which pose a great threat to human well-being around the world.

Otherwise

, on an economic level, wild

animals

dying out

also

means that several countries, specifically undeveloped African countries depending on wildlife sanctuaries as an effective way to create job opportunities for their locals would be put under the intense pressure of high unemployment rate. Simultaneously, a great deal of these countries’ turnover from the tourism industry would

also

decrease as there are no more tourists travelling to natural sanctuaries when there is no kind of wild

animals

left. In conclusion, I strongly believe that we

humans

have sufficient spaces and resources to exist side by side with wild

animals

in

this

21st

century

as protecting wild

animals

from dying out is indirectly protecting ourselves.