PfA Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Centre

Over the years and throughout human history, we all may have come across stories of wildlife in captivity. Through tales of exotic birds with clipped wings in tiny little cages or an aquarium full of fish swimming in the same small circles, we are shown that wildlife has been readily domesticated to fit the criteria of the ‘ideal’ pet or companion that one could have. With wild animals especially, pet owners attempt to teach them how to be civilised and more suitable for them, which really takes away from the essence of their primitive nature. Most of these ‘exotic pets’ thrive best in their natural habitat, the wild. Though a commendable amount of awareness has been created on this topic, some individuals still seem to keep these animals caged and trapped for their own personal gain.                                      Red-eared sliders are known to destroy the local biodiversity if released...

The natural world is an intricate and ever-evolving realm that functions similarly to a giant organism, with each of its elements, living and nonliving, acting as its various organs. Birds, animals, trees, water, soil, and all of its components exist in a precarious balance, forming delicate relationships with one another that collectively work towards maintaining this balance, much like the various organ systems in our bodywork towards keeping us alive. Over the course of time, several species have gone extinct for various reasons. Many of these species died out as they did not possess certain adaptations that enabled them to thrive in constantly changing environments, in a process known as natural selection. Those that possessed these genetic mutations to adapt, survived, and thrived in these new environmental conditions, thus undergoing the process of evolution to become new species, the species that we see living in the world around us today. At certain times in the past, due to va...