@davidc4430 wrote:
Donald Trump to allow importation of African elephant body parts to 'raise money for conservation'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/trump-to-allow-hunters-to-import-african-elephant-body-parts/9...
It looks to me like the left wing media taking a possible idea and running with it. It reminds me of the time I argued about saving the rhinos on ebayUS. My idea....assigning each one guards and was told I was crazy. Their idea....controlled hunting, like suggested in the link and using the money to save them.
Turns out, thankfully, I was right and they were assigned guards.
There are many more elephants than rhinos. Although I get where he's coming from (if he actually said it), I'd be against it. Like I said, there are many more elephants and they are still being hunted in massive numbers. Where will the money come from before they are in the situation as the rhinos?
From the link....."According to the United Nations, as many as 100,000 African elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012. For forest elephants, the population declined by an estimated 62 per cent between 2002 and 2011."
That's criminal. Any idea is better then lip service.
How about this?..... "Kenya reduced 105 tons of elephant ivory and 1.35 tons of rhino horn to smoldering ash—the final remains of some 6,500 elephants and 450 rhinos killed for their tusks and horns. As President Kenyatta said in a speech early Saturday, the burn is meant to send a strong and clear statement to the world: “For us, ivory is worthless unless it is on our elephants.”
Why in the hell isn't that being sold to fund conservation? The animals are already dead and crooked officials will continue to look the other way for payoffs.
