Photo Gallery: "Lost World" of New Species Found in Indonesia

As most have already read, scientist found a huge number of previously undiscoved species in an island in Indonesia. This article from National Geographic shows photos of some of the species found.

The rich treasure of unfound species is great news. On the other hand, it makes one think about how many species like these and many others have been lost due to man colonizing almost all available land. Even a few hundred years ago, the amount of land man was using was quite reasonable and made us one species struggling for survival.

However, with the recent technological advances vast areas of land have been deforested in order to meet the greater demands of housing and food for the ever increasing population. For eg. Is it fair that there are over 6,000,000,000 humans in this world but only 6000 tigers in the wild.

I think this is one of the issues that we have to take utmost urgency in. We should stop behaving like we are the only species on this planet. Remember that we are sharing this planet with millions of other species who have the same right as us to survive and live. Just because we are the current fittest does not give us the right to exterminate all other species.