The last few decades have seen many humanitarian revisionist movements regarding ecocriticism. The idea of ecocriticism came into movement in the early 1990's. The first fingers which pointed out the growing concerns were the literacy scholars who belonged to United Kingdom and the United states. The literacy practices in the field of ecocriticism have been expanded in the last three decades. The growing emphasis is on how human beings relate to the nature and the environment. There has been a lot of research and development in the field of ecocritical (Johnson, 2013). The physical and spiritual combination of the interdisciplinary can be seen as ecology and ecocriticism. The aim of these two subjects is similar. The aim is to preserve nature and to make the survival of man easier (Tošic, 2006). The main reason behind the idea of ecocriticism is to govern the exchanges between human species and the nature (Nature includes all those species which are present in the world and are not human) (Bergthaller, 2013). Boyes is a scientist who works for the wellbeing of the nature. According to boyes it is very important for us to consider the deadly effects of the diminishing nature. On the other hand, Murray, in his poem identifies culture as the main threat towards nature. According to him people have started cutting out and missing out on the importance of nature and have started demolishing it into a source of land from which they can earn revenue. Murray talks about how people are cutting the forests to make farmland and how they are caging the animals.
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Binary between Nature and Culture
Ecocriticism, having one foot in nature and the other foot in literature is fundamentally a detailed study of the relationship between the physical environment and literature. The mandate of ecocriticism stretches its hand to cover the prospects such as environmental philosophy and bioethics. The study of ecocriticism negotiates between humans and nature with a theoretical discourse. The postcolonial thought was also adopted by the Australian poet, Les Murray. Les has said that as time goes on it broadens up into space (Murray 1969). In his master class poem Murray identifies how humans are demolishing nature in the name of cultural heritage. Through his poem he tells how forests are being cut down in order to build new farmlands and homes for the humans. He goes on to argue how humans are ruthlessly demolishing nature by caging animals. According to Murray, humans are essentially just making things worse for them, as the importance of nature in everyone's life is of integral importance.
The assertion of different sites, which focus on World Heritage is a sign of our responsibility towards preserving of nature and cultural heritage, keeping in mind how we interact with such things. The remaining of the area, which can be considered to be 'wilderness areas' face a huge threat from agriculture, hunting, villages, industrialization, logging and deforestation. The end of wilderness not only in Africa but in the whole world seems ...
