Re: Destroying what attracts the tourists in the first place!
Originally Posted by
Mups
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Any civilised place would not use that as an excuse DM, they would sterilize them instead.
They are making a lot of money out of letting vile hunter/tourists shoot them and rob them of their ivory - a much better idea for those that don't give a damn about them.
I'm sorry Mups, l am a little confused by your reply ??
Are you talking about the elephants OR the people when you speak of
sterilisation ??
On the elephant front they have been experimenting with sterilising
by darting chosen animals with a contraceptive drug similar to
the pill female humans use, but l have not seen any results from
this, but l believe it is very expensive to administer on a large scale ??
On the banning of ivory sales,( old or new,) it seems that most sales
in China have only been driven underground and have had little
effect on demand at all, if anything the price has gone up !!
On the culling question l see no reason why the culling cannot be
carried out on a humane basis as long as only old animals are
culled as they will eventually starve to death due to their teeth
being worn out,( similar to horses!)
Surely a quick death due to culling is preferable to starving and
probably being pulled down by lions ??
The animals we should be concentrating on are NOT the elephants
but the Rhino's which have difficulty in breeding and cannot
replace large numbers being slaughtered either by poaching or
by culling ??
Donkeyman! 👎👎👎
BTW, The national parks in most African countries don't let members
of the public take weapons into the parks !!
The canned hunting you refer to is carried out on high priced super
luxury PRIVATE game farms which are nowhere large enough to
be called a game park ??