Call to restock North America’s large mammals (Lions, Tigers,Bears Alert)

NewScientist.com ^ | 18:00 17 August 2005 | Kurt Kleiner

[RJL]

Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels could one day roam the western US

The folks living on the coasts always have plans like this for areas where they don't live.

Let's put Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels in NYC's Central Park or SF's Golden Gate park.

[trubluolyguy]

Again...Wasn't this news LAST week?

[TheForceOfOne]

I'll settle for restocking my freezer.

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[ashtanga]

I don't know if this is a joke, but the same birkenstockers have already allowed mountain lions to have too free range as it is. Now they want to import dangerous species of predators?

[DavemeisterP]

There are several organizations, that include the Sierra Club, that already own land all over the world to do this. The nature groups plan to wipe out all human presence within these parks, including roads, current residents, telephone, power, water, etc., especially within a core center of the park. If you don't think this could happen, think again, they already own MUCH more land than you think. If I remember right, it's large portions of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, and the entire panhandle of Oklahoma. They have already opened a Pleistocene Park in Siberia, and plan to do this in several other parts of the world. They collectively own more land than the US Government and I think I remember it being something like 26% of all the world. I can't remember for sure, but I do remember it being numbers that surprised and scared me. These charities are buying up the world and some of them play commercials on TV to get people to invest money in 'saving the pristine wilderness'. Regular folk send in their money to some group that they REALLY don't know what they do. Kinda like the British charity for earthquake relief that funneled money back to terrorist groups so that one of them could blow up ten planes over the Atlantic. NOW we think it's surprising that they aren't doing what some thought they would do with the money - and did it by playing the sympathy card on us. Charity groups have always been funneling money elsewhere secretly, these people are telling us what they're going to do before they do it. They're going to evict Americans off they're property and put lions and tigers and bears in other's backyards, whatever was the closest present day relative of the extinct animals that roamed back then. How comforting would it be to know that tigers live 30 miles away and you and you are too broke to move?

[Sacajaweau]

Gators are eating folks in Florida. Wolves are killing sheep.

We didn't have these problems before the NEW IDIOTS put these critters BACK into our tamed society AND TOOK AWAY THE RIGHT TO SHOOT'm DEAD!!

[RJL]

This is a great idea!

Let's start and showcase the whole thing by stocking the lions, tigers and bears in NYC Central Park, it'll be grand.

/S

[SunkenCiv]

[DoodleDawg]

Because after all introducing species not native to the U.S has never, ever backfired. </sarcasm>