Posted on 11/17/2017 5:53:25 PM PST by SMGFan
Ok, so you don’t like hunting. I get that, but for the most part without hunters, no wildlife, I still have a family farm and we personally take an interest in nature and live in it. What do you do?
Now, some harsh facts, importation bans are worthless. Let’s say you are a professional hunter in Zimbabwe. You have to pay for a particular concession where you are allowed to guide hunters, with a quota per species. In other words, you have two male lions, six leopards, and three bull elephant. The USA won’t let you import elephant tusks, etc, so you advertise instead of the USA in Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Arab countries. You fill all the quotas and the importation ban therefore has no effect on populations, but it sure makes people in the US FEEL better! I have seen it in person, I’m not guessing about this, last time I was hunting in Namibia, we saw a cheetah eating a newborn calf. I asked the PH about the importation ban, and he said, cheetahs are numerous here, we can’t import trophies to the US, so we take German hunters (Namibia was a German colony, so they have ties there). Cheetahs are not scarce, but the people in DC and NYC decided they were, that was his words.
Import bans, in other words, are worthless other than making an urban person who knows nothing about life in the wild feel better about THEMSELVES.
I’ve personally fed game birds and animals (besides the farm produce the eat on the side) on our farm, which is rich in wildlife, i’m not a wanton killer. What have you done?
They should be sanctions on Asia and Africa for noncompliance but they should be completely shut down in the US as well. The only ivory in stores should be small amounts that are genuinely antique. Of course illegal dealers will only move online which is another issue.
I agree about sanctions.
Read a book - I Dreamed of Africa - and it described the local Kenyans burning a huge pile of ivory rather than let it be sold.
We need to dry up the buyers. Asia is backwards in so many ways - they need to quit thinking rino horns are Viagra and to leave the rest of the animals - including giraffes - alone.
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