Kudu enjoying themselves... for how long?

As human population numbers and lifestyle requirements escalate, biodiversity is reduced to another facility for the benefit of people, rather than for the harmonious coexistence of all species. The bigger mammals are relentlessly hunted by some, equally aggressively protected by others.

We simply must conserve our curiosities, albeit in suitably reduced numbers. For convenience they must be sequestered in dedicated reserves, rather than in a so-called natural state for costs tend to get out of hand so quickly.

Such insidious trend may not be immediately apparent, but inspection of human population growth forecasts for Africa plus the little that is intended to be done about it, gives sufficient response to those that deny the trend of big mammal marginalisation. The extinction of species is a growing feature of our time, increasingly accepted as an unfortunate necessity in articles ending with "What a shame!"

The Ezemvelo Rhino Club Newsletter of September 2014 says the following about species extinction:

"In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...

Most extinctions have occurred naturally, prior to Homo sapiens walking on Earth. It is estimated that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Mass extinctions are relatively rare events; however, isolated extinctions are quite common. Only recently have extinctions been recorded and scientists have become alarmed at the current high rate of extinctions…

Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago…Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day."