Page 16 Cassiar Courier

A Point
of View

by

Guest editorial Vickie

Kornelsen

Serving Time In Vain?

Most of us have been to a
ZOO at. teast:--once-: = It’ is az
magical place to see lions and
tigers, maybe even to feed the
elephants. But most people don't
realize what it must feel like to
be in a cage, -with no hope = of

ever going home. Within the next
century over 45 million years of
evolution will end in a Zoo.

Ironically, keeping animals in a

zoo may be the only way to help
them survive.

The cheetahs, the rhinos,
and the Siberian tigers may be

extinct within the next few years
unless action is taken. The Mon-
golian horse is extinct inthe
wild. and there are under 300 Sib-
erian tigers in their natual
habitat.

Not all animals that end up
in the zoo die there however.
There are several successes in
the world of animal preservation.
Surrogate motherhood is being
used to help the bongo survive.
What happens is’ the scientists
take out the female's egg and the
male's sperm and make the embryo
in a lab.:. The embryo. is. then:
made into~twins by placing half

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of the cell in an empty cell mem-
brane. Then one embryo is inser-
ted into an elan (close relative
to. a bongo) and the other is
placed back into a. female bongo.
Anoth-
would be the oraks (a
type of horse), whose population
has been successfully raised and
then returned to their unchanged
Arabian habitat. Also there is
artificial insemination in Siber-
ian tigers so that the male or
female does not need _ to fly
around the world (in some cases)
in order. to reproduce. ..
=: FE a -being. came to earth
humans
if it only saw them in jail? The
same goes for animals. The best
way for humans to learn about
animals is in their natural habi-
tat. Over 500 species of plants
and animals are extinct every
year. There is no animal on this
earth as destructive as humans.
We are the only species to make
our habitat fit us; nature fits

the animal to the habitat.

If you got absolutely
ing out of this article
that conservation
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courses desired by the
next fall.

public
‘This will. allow resi-
dents to plan participation in
college activities before the
busy fall season begins.

As District Administrator, I
will no longer travel the dist-
rict on a continuous basis from
my office in Dease Lake. I - have
accepted a new contract from the
Board designed to reduce my tra-
vel time and increase planning
and supervision time in each
community. To this end, I will
visit the Stikine on the follow-
ing schedule and spend two weeks
each in Atlin, Cassiar and Dease
Lake. Visits to Iskut, Telegraph
Creek, Lower Post and Good Hope
Lake will follow from the nearest
centre. I -will complete this
circuit three times in the school
year: .

October 10 December 14, 1989
January 10 - March 15, 1990
Apri} lS -— ‘May 25,:-1990

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this schedule I can be reached
through any of the learning cen-
tres. My focus will remain on
community development through
adult education and the financing

of new curriculum and service
relevant to our area.

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