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We can get lots of lives as the pets from everywhere recently , so we can see lots of rare lives from foreign countries. Wealthy species make us fun and it has become convenient to know lots of kind. However, import pets bring serious effests on a speicies indigenous to Japan. Import pets have affected original creatures and the local ecosystem over the past years. For example, a black bass have multiplied in river in recent years and they eat all the original Japanese creatures such as carp, dragonfly larva, and other aquatic life. Thus, the original Japanese ecosystem has changed because of them. This problem brings the extinction of indigenous creatures. So, it means chaos for everything and everyone involved. We will not only lose the original life but it will also affects the food culture of people who eat the local life. People enjoy eating original food of the region. For example, if Yamame which is original Japanese fresh water fish is exterminated, we cannot eat them anymore and we will lose the culture of eating them. If imported pets go wild in Japan, it will create severe problems. Therefore, there are three possible solutions to improve this situation.
First, reinforce a master’s responsibility for their own pets. Having responsibility solve these serious problem. Communities concerning animals and pets, and goverment should watch master’s circumstances. But, there is the limit of watching all the individuals. They cannot afford them perfectly. So, they give information to masters about the present severe situation and improve their moral. They give three slogans which represent attitude of moral as a master. “Do not accept, Do not leave, Do not expand” This is three principle of prevention for harmful import pets. These rules are good to save our original lives, but it’s not enough to cover all. Some people cannot take in it.
Next, extermination of foreign creatures already in the wild. It will easy and direct way to save other original lives, but it needs lots of money, time, restrictions to exterminate animals. To exterminate import pets, also affect our life. For example, American crawfish have been liked by many Japanese kids for a long time, though they are from America, so it is not simple and good way to solve the problem. I think it is also selfish method of people and too forcible.
Third, Put a ban on import pets. This is an most possible and appropriate solution to stop increasing foreign creatures in Japan. There are lots of specified paticular extraneous lives such as Mangoose, Weasel, Nutria, Toad, Hedgehog, etc… Surprisingly, there are lives which I believed it’s Japanese original animals. Government specified 2,000 kind as the particular extaneous lives. We cannot keep, conveyance, import, and sale them. In spite of this regulation, there are lots of smuggling. Smuggler can pay lots of money to satisfy their appetites, and the zoo as an acceptance of animals cannot afford for their capasity. I think it should be more strict and improve the sysems.
Finally, It would be difficult to solve about the problem of import pets after expand everywhere in Japan, it needs huge cost, time, effort, and sacrifice. So, preventions are important, and we need information of lives and present serious situations. To save our own original lives and ecosystem, we should keep having moral and responsibility.
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