Why do people matter and mother nature doesn't?

As some of you know, I have volunteered to go to south africa as a research assistant to aid scientists and biologists in conservation with an organisation called Operation Wallacea. through OW 32 speices have been introduced to science in the previous years.

Now for me to go on the expedition i need to raise about £5000 although if i get to £4000 it wouldn't be that bad. it's for the expedition itself, travel expenses, accommodation although most of the time we will be sleeping in tents and we'll have armed guards with us that'll protect us in the wild, our food and insurance. our diving equipment and so many other things. When i ask people to donate even if it's just £1 or $1 or BD1 sometimes i get people saying we only give money to help poor people. what those ignorant people don't see is that they actually do more than just destroy those poor people's lives by not helping science and biologists like myself.

i'll give you an example if people would bother with donating money to install tsunami warning devices people would not have died, had their houses destroyed and their lives wouldn't have been the hell it was when the tsunami came. AFTER they had gone through all that horror those ignorant people were like "yeah ok now we'll donate money to make their lives better". why couldn't you have donated before than so that they wouldn't have GONE through that horrifing experience?? as a mate of mine said " prevention is better than a cure" same with south africa if we don't conserve their forests, their animals, their lands they won't have anything to eat if everything dies, in addition most medicines come from plants and if all are destroyed where are people going to get their extracts. I better stop since I can go on and on...please feel free to comment and add your ideas even if you disagree

If anyone wants to have a look at operation wallacea and what their scientists and research groups have achieved and what they are currently doing please visit www.opwall.com

Reem