Journey of Places I Have Never been Visited, but Wish to Go

I wish to go to Japan but during the last December holidays, the tour was fully booked. So, my family had no choice but to go to Taiwan. I wish to go to Japan to visit the Mount Fuji, have a ride on the Bullet train, play at the Tokyo DisneySea and many others. The place where I am so excited to go is the Tokyo DisneySea because there is only one Disney sea in the world. There are also Universal Studio and Hello kitty Land. Bullet train in Japan travels at a very high speed and it is not like the MRT in Singapore. I also heard that the ice-cream over there tastes very nice and it takes a long time for the ice-cream to melt.

The next place which I want to go is Hokkaido. During winter, you can go skiing and skiing is a very fun sports. The scenery over there is very nice. You can also experience Japananese Hot Bath, the unique hot spring and spa over there.The food also taste very delicious very good. I really wish that this year I can go to thes places.

Reflective Summary

After five weeks of doing researches and readings on tigers and iguanas conservation, I have learnt a couple of things such as to know why there is a need to conserve the tigers and iguanas, the causes and effects of the problem which the they face and to suggest possible solutions which can help them to solve the problem.

I have also improved on my knowledge by knowing that tigers in India contain 60% of the world population. The tigers’ population starts to decrease as their habitats were destroyed. This was due to agriculture, farming and activities carried out in the forests.

I have also learnt that some people in the world are very cruel as they introduce animals to eat the Iguanas. I think these people should stop this habit and do help to conserve the Iguanas.

My perspectives have changed after doing my research. At first, I used to think that tigers and iguanas decrease because they are being hunted only. Actually, the tigers’ populations decrease because their habitats were destroyed for farming, agriculture and activities carried out in the forests and animals are introduced by humans to eat up the iguanas. I am very anxious because if the tigers and iguanas will extinct one day.

I wish I can join the ‘Tiger Trust’ and ‘Iguana Specialist Group’ which can help to conserve Tigers and Iguanas. Now, we should really stop destroying the tigers’ habitats and give them a better environment to live in and also stop introducing animals to eat up the Iguanas.

Reflective Journal 5

After doing research on the causes and effects of the tigers and iguanas decreasing, I continue to do research to find out any possible solution which can help to solve this problem. We went to Google and Wikipedia to search for information. After doing so many researches, we still could not find the information that we want. I came out with an idea which was to plan and give a solution to solve the problem.

We had no idea at all and we decided to do research again. Later, we found the information that we needed and we used that for the solution.
The information was that India set up a few conservations to curb the problem. For tigers, one of the conservations was ‘Tiger Trust’. It was a non-governmental organisation which was started in 1989 by late Kailash Sankhala and it aims to raise awareness nature conservation. For iguanas, one of the conservations was ‘Iguana Specialist Group’. It was formerly the West Indian Iguana Specialist Group and it aims to help create and set up effective conservations for iguanas.

I have found out the solutions to solve the problem of the causes and effects of tigers and iguanas decreasing and this is what I have learnt. At first, I thought that there is not a kind of solution which can solve the causes and effects of any endangered animals but actually, there are such things. I feel very happy as there is some kind of solutions to help the tigers and iguanas. I hope the above solutions will help to solve the problem.

Taken from http://www.tigertrustindia.com/index.html
http://www.iucn-isg.org/index.php

Reflective Journal 4

After doing research on the causes of tigers and iguanas decreasing in India, I continue to do research to find out the effects of tigers and iguanas decreasing in India. The effect of the tigers decreasing is due to the poaching of many tigers. The tiger’s population itself is rapidly decreasing in India. India, which had 40,000 tigers just one century ago, now, has only about 1,411 tigers left in the country – which is quite a huge decrease.

The effect of iguanas decreasing is the ecosystems, which they belong to, suffered serious problems. Many native plants were suffered as iguanas are the main or important seed dispersers to the native plants. The other effect is many female iguanas could not give birth since most of the iguanas are very hard to find these days. Lastly, due to females being choosey, they also have low rates of survival.

My views have changed as I do not know that there are effects of tigers and iguanas decreasing and this is what I have learnt. I think that these effects may be negative and we should now stop killing or hunting the tigers and iguanas as these may lead to such negative effects.

Taken from http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2008/02/steep-tiger-population-decrease-in.html
http://www.iucn-isg.org/

Reflective Journal 3

After doing research on the details of tigers and iguanas, I knew that there is a need to conserve on these two animals as they are going to extinct. I continue to do research to find out the causes of tigers and iguanas decreasing in India. The government and many people knew the causes of fast decrease in the tiger population. There is an increasing pressure on tiger’s habitats and this is due to agriculture, forests and natural grasslands. This information is one of the main reasons for the rapid decrease of tiger’s population in India.

There is also a need to conserve on iguanas in India. Iguanas are one of the endangered species of the world’s lizards. Their population are decreasing because their habitats are being killed and their young and eggs are also being eaten by foreign animals. The causes of iguanas decreasing are they are being eaten by animals which are brought by people and they are also being eaten by natural predators such as snakes, cuckoos, herons and raptors.

Taken from http://www.ardastra.com/iguanainfo.html

Reflective Journal 2

I learnt that "The latest predictions state that tigers will be extinct in the wild by the year 2015. That is less than twelve short years from now. That’s less then fourteen years to save a creature that has been around far longer then ourselves. Tigers are an integral part of the ecosystem, and a major link in the food chain." The tigers are also often killed in very cruel ways.

I also learnt that "16,306 of 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction, reports the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The total number of known extinct species now stands at 785, while a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation. The IUCN Red List is considered the most authoritative assessment of the global status of plants and animals. It classifies species according to their extinction risk and is available online as a searchable database."

I think we should at least try our best to conserve these two animals as they are going to be extinct. If these two animals extinct, they cannot be seen anywhere in the world. Therefore, we should really help to conserve these two animals.

Taken from http://www.furville.com/Dave/tigers.html
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0912-redlist.html

Reflective Journal 1

I discussed with my group members and we planned to do research on iguanas and tigers for the India conservation. We did research on tigers and iguanas in India to find out the details of them. I have learnt that we need to conserve on tigers as during the 1950s and early 1960s, there were 3000 tigers lost their lives because of the hunting activities that were carried out. Most of the hunters were tourists.

Taken from http://www.wildlife-tour-india.com/indian-wildlife/tiger-in-india.html

I have also learnt that we have to conserve on iguanas as they are one of the most endangered species of the world’s lizards. Their habitats are killed and foreign animals are introduced to eat small iguanas and the iguanas’ eggs. Therefore, we have to start conserving on these two animals.

Taken from http://www.ardastra.com/iguanainfo.html

My views have changed after doing the first research. At first, I thought that tigers and iguanas are going to extinct because there is no continuous reproduction carried out by them. Actually, the tigers are going to extinct because hunters hunt them and the iguanas are going to decrease because their habitats are destroyed by humans. I feel very worried that one day tigers and iguanas will extinct and they cannot be seen anymore. I can help to improve on this situation by advising people to stop hunting tigers so that the tigers will have a better environment to live in and also stop destroying iguanas’ habitats.