Why Are We Building So Many Houses, And Killing Off The Natural Wildlife In The Local Communities? Are These Homes Really Worth Building In The First Place? Especially When Half Of The Population Cant Afford To Buy One Themselves!

This is the response of the building industry to the boom in the property market, which is set to crash quite soon across Europe and America. Spain and Ireland have had a great increase in the construction industry, and have seen profits of 20% over the last ten years. This is set to change, and even secure France may take a knock .So when this happens, a lot of the houses, built to speculate in the market , will go unsold as people's ability to raise high mortgages to buy them declines.
It is a pity that woodland and wildlife areas are being gobbled up for this, as they almost never return to the natural state again, even when environmentalists get involved to green up the area years later.
We are ever hungry to live within commuting distance, in a country atmosphere, with the result that, within 100km of any city in the first world, suburbia and housing developments have encroached into wildlife areas.

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This has been one of the topics of furious debate over the past decades. There has been an explosion in the population all over the world. Along with rapidly increasing population, urbanization too has resulted in encroachment of habitats previously available to animals. This has resulted in confrontations with wildlife of the encroached communities, and their subsequent killing. The animals have nowhere to run, and aggression is the only way they know to save their territories. They are in a losing situation all the way through, and this is resulting in a steady decline in their population, leading to ecological imbalance and a disturbance, with possible serious consequences, of the food chain as well.

While housing is necessary, it has to be done in a planned way, such that there is balance between human and animal habitats. This can be done by increasing the awareness levels among the concerned sectors about the need to preserve these habitats and the animals living therein. Greed and wanton constructions have to stop; we have to be able to find places where we can construct without risking confrontation with the local wildlife. While we will win these confrontations, the loss of these animals will hurt us in the long run.

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