Contrasting the Aboriginals View on the Environment and...

Aboriginal and non-aboriginal people are un-intentionally separated by many means. One such example would be the way each use their land and how they manage it, and different land uses stem from different values and morals. The biggest difference is that aborigines think of their environment and its inhabitants no lower than themselves, they live with the environment, take care of it, preserving the balance of ecosystems. Non-aboriginal people, however, think less about everything else and are more centred on their own wellbeing, comfort, and wealth. Non-aboriginal people live apart from the natural world, not in it. They take advantage of the available resources, thinking less about fellow humans and even less about the potential†¦show more content†¦In today’s world, hardly any species of wildlife become extinct from natural causes. Europeans hunt animals to such an extent that we classify it as overhunting. We destroy their habitat, and introduce other animals that are a threat to endangered animals or are competition for resources and food. Habitat destruction is the greatest threat to both animals and plants. Deforestation of rainforests as such, physically kills of plant species, and these plants and the environment they form are the habitats that are vastly inhabited by all types of living matter, from elephants in the African jungles, to the beetles that live in logs. An approximation of extinct species of mammals would be about 60, since 1600. 125 species of birds have also become extinct since then. Currently, there are around 1000 to 1100 species of birds and mammals that are facing extinction, or on the brink of extinction. Including plants and invertebrates too would bring this number to 20 000. This is solely to do with the fact that Europeans use whatever land available to make way for industrial, commercial and residential use. Aboriginal fire management is when people use fire to manage their land and its forests. Leaves of gum trees, contain flammable oils. Dead leaves and some branches fall of these trees and gather on the ground for prolonged periods of time, which form a kind of fuel for bushfires. Instead of allowing the fuel load to build up, aboriginals