Version 104 Wild animals have no place in the 21st century, and the protection for them is a waste of resource. To what extent do you agree with the above statement?

With the rapid progress of society, people's living standard is dramatically improved, with more convenience and resource coming to us. However, our living environment at the same time is getting more polluted. One effect of this phenomenon is that there are not enough space for wild animals to survive, and many people hold an opinion that it would be a waste of resource to protect wild animals. Nevertheless, I think exactly the opposite way.

The environment is a comprehensively biological life cycle, with human beings, animals and plants playing effecting each other accordingly. Wild animals occupy an essential position in the life cycle. Let's look at a very simple example. Although snakes are very dangerous and frightening, they can catch mice, and mice can destroy the crop as well as the sanitary surroundings. Here it is easy to understand that if there are not enough snakes, the number of mice would grow rapidly, doing more harm to us. Then, shouldn't we protect the snake? Actually, we are saving resource by doing this because trying to save something which is already destroyed seriously costs more.

Secondly, in present, quite a number of problems such as desertification and rivers dried up, caused by excessive exploitation of natural resource, have arisen an increasing number of people aware of environment protection. More and more places, I think, should be planned for wild animals in the 21st century. Thus, it is obviously noticed that more trees are planted and more wildlife conservation areas are planned , ensuring that wild animals will be under protection. As we can see from the improvement, in the 21st century, wild animals would be leading a happy life. 
（** This paragraph has been revised by teacher Lai **)

To sum up, we cannot live without wild animals due to their profound effects on us. For this reason, we should try our best to protect them. Let's remember one thing-protecting wild animals is equivalent to protecting ourselves.

(課堂習作作者：業余迎考班71期學員周穎瑜   **由廣州仲愷雅思培訓中心賴勁松老師提供）