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Post by rick49 on Oct 25, 2018 11:37:14 GMT
Unfortunately, I doubt they will avoid extinction. If they aren't even safe in Yellowstone, it's highly unlikely they will survive on the open range. "Yellowstone’s last wild buffalo are being slaughtered in a range war pitting ranchers against conservationists"newfoodeconomy.org/slaughtering-yellowstone-buffalo-brucellosis/ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 16:32:29 GMT
Ten years
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Post by rick49 on Nov 4, 2018 23:19:14 GMT
Elephants, rhinos, tigers, lions, cheetahs, gorillas are already past the point of no return. Giraffes are close behind them.
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Post by flatandy on Nov 5, 2018 0:04:31 GMT
Don't think that's true of elephants and giraffes. And probably not lions. Tigers and gorillas are in real jeopardy. Black rhinos are threatened but not at "no return". Cheetahs are a bit weird because they're mostly threatened by their own natural inbreeding and recessive alleles - humans haven't helped, by cheetahs are so screwed up that they'd likely go extinct naturally.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 7:52:06 GMT
The only hope we've got is global left-wing green nazism. Won't be pleasant, but neither will be the alternative.
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Post by rick49 on Nov 9, 2018 12:55:25 GMT
Love knows no species: Emu and donkey have fallen for each other"The unlikely pair have been “comforting each other” for possibly as far back as years at a farm in Kershaw, S.C., Jennifer Gordon of the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue told The Charlotte Observer. The animals were discovered after the owner of the farm seemingly abandoned it last week." "Gordon guesses the animals’ relationship grew out of loneliness there. “They are very bonded,” the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue said in a Facebook post." “They like to cuddle and even sleep together,” Gordon told the Observer. www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665518073/love-knows-no-species-emu-and-donkey-have-fallen-for-each-other-caretakers-say
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Post by perrykneeham on Nov 9, 2018 15:04:48 GMT
Life after Rod: a new career begins on the set of the new Shrek movie.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Apr 8, 2019 13:58:31 GMT
Not so much joy here at someone's demise (albeit a poacher's), but a certain amount of karma in play here perhaps ... "South Africa: Poacher killed by elephant then eaten by lions" www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47843999 |
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Post by rick49 on Apr 8, 2019 14:08:09 GMT
I have next to no sympathy for poachers. They need karma for what they are doing.
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Post by jimboky on Apr 8, 2019 14:16:32 GMT
desperate people doing whatever it takes to survive,, if my choice was either kill a animal or starve I would kill the animal,
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Post by rick49 on Apr 8, 2019 14:27:17 GMT
No surprise. South Africa rhino poaching: 'Web of corruption' blamedwww.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43821674Unfortunately, the only way these animals will avoid extinction is if they are captured and taken to civilized countries. |
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Post by flatandy on Apr 8, 2019 14:30:19 GMT
desperate people doing whatever it takes to survive,, if my choice was either kill a animal or starve I would kill the animal, Who is the "desperate person" doing "whatever it takes to survive" here? |
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Post by rick49 on Apr 8, 2019 14:36:25 GMT
desperate people doing whatever it takes to survive,, if my choice was either kill a animal or starve I would kill the animal, I don't buy that excuse/cop out. There has always been poverty in Africa, yet as recently as the 1990s wildlife was flourishing. Poaching is nothing but a get rich quick scheme in Africa. Like dope peddling in the U.S. |
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Post by flatandy on Apr 8, 2019 14:53:04 GMT
Also, most poachers in South Africa are relatively wealthy white men over the age of 40. It's almost never the actual poor.
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