I agree…elephants have been hunted and slaughtered for their tusks, leaving the population dismal. Their tusks are ripped out of their flesh, sometimes when they are struggling to stay alive. Many of them are mothers, and their young are left to survive on their own if the heard rejects them. The idea of population control via hinting is bullshit. The extinction of elephants of THE ENTIRE WORLD is almost a reality.
You don’t seem to have read the article. The elephants are being killed, terribly, when there is no one with any incentive to keep them alive and reproducing! It’s not about population control — it’s about population SURVIVAL. If the local people cannot profit from the existence of elephants, the elephants will be killed off. The real – very real – problem is how to give the local people reasons to value elephants and writing emotional comments on a website isn’t going to do that.
It’s the same with the rhinos, which are killed to cut off their horns to sell for traditional Chinese medicines. If they could be cut off humanely and sold, the poachers would not kill the rhinos to cut off a single horn. It’s all about incentives, not emotional pleas that will only fall on deaf ears if the local people have no other reason to listen to them.
Wake up, people! The elephants and rhinos are going to die off if there are not reasons for local people to conserve them. Let’s help them to have those reasons by, for example, supporting property rights and safari trips by rich foreigners, who will pay poor local people to protect their animals. (And in the process, those people will be less poor, so it’s a big winner for everyone — animals, local people, and foreign conservationists.)
It may well be as disastrous as you say, but let’s try to find ways to earn money for conservancies other than legalizing killings. Something is not right with men who have fun in shooting at animals. This sort of activities must not be promoted, be it for economic reasons or whatever.
Are you a vegetarian? Do you ever have fun eating hamburgers with friends?
“Something is not right with people who have fun in eating animals. This sort of activities must not be promoted, be it for economic reasons or whatever.”
Let’s shut down every restaurant that offers “food ‘n fun.”
>>”lifting the trophy hunting ban in Kenya could be a vital step in increasing the fortunes of both the elephants and the people”<<
Indeed, what a nice bid for elefants: “Die to let the others live in a more prosperous conservancy”…
I agree…elephants have been hunted and slaughtered for their tusks, leaving the population dismal. Their tusks are ripped out of their flesh, sometimes when they are struggling to stay alive. Many of them are mothers, and their young are left to survive on their own if the heard rejects them. The idea of population control via hinting is bullshit. The extinction of elephants of THE ENTIRE WORLD is almost a reality.
You don’t seem to have read the article. The elephants are being killed, terribly, when there is no one with any incentive to keep them alive and reproducing! It’s not about population control — it’s about population SURVIVAL. If the local people cannot profit from the existence of elephants, the elephants will be killed off. The real – very real – problem is how to give the local people reasons to value elephants and writing emotional comments on a website isn’t going to do that.
It’s the same with the rhinos, which are killed to cut off their horns to sell for traditional Chinese medicines. If they could be cut off humanely and sold, the poachers would not kill the rhinos to cut off a single horn. It’s all about incentives, not emotional pleas that will only fall on deaf ears if the local people have no other reason to listen to them.
Wake up, people! The elephants and rhinos are going to die off if there are not reasons for local people to conserve them. Let’s help them to have those reasons by, for example, supporting property rights and safari trips by rich foreigners, who will pay poor local people to protect their animals. (And in the process, those people will be less poor, so it’s a big winner for everyone — animals, local people, and foreign conservationists.)
Sonya,
It may well be as disastrous as you say, but let’s try to find ways to earn money for conservancies other than legalizing killings. Something is not right with men who have fun in shooting at animals. This sort of activities must not be promoted, be it for economic reasons or whatever.
R2D2,
Are you a vegetarian? Do you ever have fun eating hamburgers with friends?
“Something is not right with people who have fun in eating animals. This sort of activities must not be promoted, be it for economic reasons or whatever.”
Let’s shut down every restaurant that offers “food ‘n fun.”
Why not?
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