Rewilding North America Analysis

Nature has been restricted in a "closed" system since humans have settled in America and created a world for themselves. Many animals have gone extinct or lost their homes as a result of humans paving roads for travel, destroying forests to build houses, and much more. Animals have started to go extinct because they have been restricted in what they can eat or where they can live due to human behavior. Humans don 't understand the importance of having nature connected rather than having nature broken into several areas. In the passage, " Rewilding North America" by Caroline Fraser, Fraser discusses many solutions on how to save the wildlife and help humans live with an "open" nature system. Fraser shows a research conducted on a wolf, Pluie, …show more content…
Pluie, " provided key evidence substantiating the theories on which rewilding is based. Pluie helped move it from a collection of hypotheses to a specific set of recommendations (Fraser 111)." In other words, Pluie grabbed the attention of biologists to advocate that corridors are essential to saving wildlife. Rewilding is not just a theory, but also a need for animals to survive and must be addressed to humans as a serious matter. Furthermore, corridors must be understood by humans because corridors play such a huge role in saving animals from extinction. However, there is no one answer in order to save wildlife, but this would save a myriad of species from extinction. Although corridors would help save wildlife, it would not completely save it because part of the reason why extinction is happening is because ecosystems are being isolated. For example, an island is isolated from mainland which makes it harder for species to survive. Therefore, less species would survive on that island, which leads to extinction. Pluie had to use wilderness corridors to travel from one area to another in order to catch prey. Pluie, geographically, needed more land than what was given in National Parks in order to move around. Furthermore, this shows that national parks aren 't big enough for animals because they need a linkage between many different …show more content…
If we save enough land, many species could be saved because it would help create connectivity between species. Corridors would help connect different landscapes, which would protect many animals under that umbrella. Pluie supports this because Pluie " was shot dead (Fraser 112)." Had corridors been built and highways weren 't in the way of corridors, then Pluie would still be alive today because he would 've used the corridor and avoided highways. However, nature can also play a huge role as to why animals are endangered. Islands, a major factor as to why animals are going extinct, are a reason why there are fewer species in this world than before. The smaller the land, the smaller the species there are . Thus relating that distance and area are important in preserving animal extinction. In islands there is less diversity which means less interactions between animals which means no connectivity. Metaphorically, an island is related to a national park such that an island is a " closed" system just like a national park. These "closed systems" not only prevent animals from interacting with nature, but also humans interacting with nature. Also, in natural parks there is less diversity like in islands, which is bad for the ecosystem and nature in whole. The theory is shaped " as an explanation of how natural forces act to control the number of species