Losing the Wildnerness

Another twenty years we will live in a world where there are no wild tigers, lions, elephants, orang-utans or gorillas. In less than ten years, there will be no rhinos, at all, except for a too small and dwindling population in few zoos. In twenty years, even those will be extinct.

I suppose it's no surprise that in fifty years time there will be no point to a captive breeding program... because there won't be a wild left to release the remaining animals into even if we could.

I suppose by the end of the century, wild animals and even the wilderness itself will be nothing more than a fading memory preserved in books and old films. Largely forgotten and ignored as irrelevant by then

Will we even miss what we've lost I wonder? I hope a few people do... but I pity them that hear the fading echo of the wild and know it's gone forever.