Mosquitoes and Tigers

Lets consider a scenario where all the mosquitoes in the world are dead. They become extinct. Is it going to bother us? The extinction of mosquitoes going to hurt us? or our sentiments? are we going start a campaign saying "save mosquitoes" ?? No , in fact we would be happy when they go extinct. Because the death-toll of malaria will be zero at that time. We dont eat mosquitoes, so its not going to affect food-chain, and if they are extinct we dont have to waste our money on buying mosquito killers.

And now i wonder , how the extinction of mosquitoes isa different scenario than extinction of tigers in India. We dont eat them, no part of India is economically dependent on them like rajasthanis use camels for their daily life. We dont use tiger in that sense....except few gods in Indian mythology nobody used tigers for transportation. No body part of tiger could be used in medicine, like the poison of snakes is used. Tigers are not amicable , they are not docile. Nobody can afford to have one as a pet. They dont help to build a healthy environment like a bunch of trees do.

In-fact tigers are mean man-eaters, who kill villagers nearby the forest. Why a bunch of animal lovers from the cities who never live in forest shout to save them? Villagers are the ones who live nearby them, go and ask a person from a tiger-hit village, if he wants to save them or not, probably he will say 'kill them all with a bomb'.

But the people of city dont want it happen, they love to watch about them in national geographic channel, they love to watch them in a tiger safari ....once in 10yrs. They want to show to the world that they care about indian tigers, but they wont go near a tiger nor they live in a village next to a tiger reserve. They love to wear those save-tiger t-shirts. They are more or less equal to bunch of youth from banjarahills protesting the killing of street-dogs in slums.

Imagine the costs to maintain 27 national tiger reserve parks, and for their census, what is the use? Why dont we care about people instead of animals.

oooh, dont tell me that we have to give more importance to national animal instead of people of the nation. Till 1973 our national animal is lion, then they changed it to tiger, we can always change it to something else.

Why dont we give more importance to the fact that , the villages have bad roads, no hospital equipment, schools without proper rooms and black boards, no proper education for them and they still believe in black magic stuff , the girls are malnutritioned and Police stations are ill equipped.If govt takes proper care of these issues, the villagers will have faith in govt and probably stop helping Maoists who tries to throw out Indian state.

Why put animals before people, its not humanism. We are humans, and lets take care of fellow humans first. Tigers become extinct ....so what? Probably genetic technology advances and we can breed them artificially like they have showed in the movie Babylon A.D, are the tigers in zoos are not sufficient to go and watch? Do we have to maintain a tiger reserve and go there to watch them?