[marktwain]

There are a lot of significan differences.

Bear are omnivores, so a given area can sustain more of them.

But she makes a valid point that it is an emotional response to the death of a lion, rather than a rational one.

She does not come out and say it, but if you want wild lions in Africa to survive, you shoud support sport hunting of them.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She does not come out and say it, but if you want wild lions in Africa to survive, you should support sport hunting of them.

That is quite true. And that goes for many species. Sport hunting is one of the ways to add value to species that are dangerous or destructive to human habitat.

When you limit the number of animals taken, raise the price to hunt them and employ as many people as possible to help care for the hunters then you have turned something that has no value into something that is a resource.

I cringe when I hear the "no ivory" commercials. Elephants are majestic creatures unless they are stomping across your fields and uprooting your orchards.

Controlled harvests keep the population in check and gives the locals a reason to want to keep them around.

I fear they are going to "protect" the animals right into extinction.

[MarMema]

but if you want wild lions in Africa to survive, you shoud support sport hunting of them.

Not many people get this.