i drove through my old neighbourhood the other day, just to see how much has changed since i was young, and im afraid to say that i do no long recognise the place.
i started crying because there has always been this magical old forrest that i remeber having my first kiss in and all, and now there is now forrest, just some block of brick dead ugly houses that stands in its place.
there use to be only certain types of plants and animal life that lived in that place that now is extinct. organisms whom could not have been relocated because of their instability, fragile systems which can now never be replaced have been tossed out so that people could have the biggest house on the top of this mountain which leads down into the depths of the ocean which will colapes in twenty years or so anyway.
sorry, i know im not making sense to many of you but this is a very Knysna-chiky of me, and very much part of the whole nature conservation and forrestry studies im doing at the moment.
see, many of you might not have ever been able to sit inside a forrest know that there are elephants walking around, not beeing albe to see them, but finding their tracks along the foot path you walk along to get home, or to see the leopards drag their kill up into a tree and ripping into it like i was to be its next prey.
now, im not saying that in south africa you have to watch out for the lion as you walk along your front lawn because it might be hungry, something like that is so not true, you would be lucky to find lions and other big cats in reserves now almost because of poacher but that is getting to another topic.
its just that in this forrest use to live true wild-life, the masters of southern africa, and now over a short period of time the lowest animal has taken over and moved in to terminate organisms you will never be able to get back again. so sometimes i belive that all humans should die out, but that is so inhumane. i dont know.
im just upset that in 20 or so years so much has change in this world and it frightenss me to think what is to become of this earth once we are done with it.
look after yourself and others around you, especially the ones whom cannot talk or fight for themselves. look at the bigger picture.

love tiffany