[Oshkalaboomboom]

Rich is an expert on so many things it's a wonder his head doesn't explode.

[wardaddy]

Eff Rich the little bitch

I’d beat his snobby ass down

Never liked him

Dumb move on elephants btw

[Electric Graffiti]

“It’s not often that President Trump’s Twitter feed is the voice of reason and compassion”

Unlike you, Dick, he’s rarely wrong.

[pissant]

If they are too populous, which they are in some areas, hunt the things. Same with whales, grizzly bears and any other beast.

[wbarmy]

Yet if you look at the elephant numbers from Kenya and from Zimbabwe, elephant numbers are growing in the countries where the elephants are treated as a resource.

Kenya made trading in them illegal so there is no incentive to keeping them alive.

[Raycpa]

But he is too unstable and blood thirsty to have nuclear bomb?

[nickcarraway]

I thought Trump wanted to end the ban?

[Bogie]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42058360

[winner3000]

Without anybody making $ off elephants, there is no incentive to poor Africans to save them!

[ek_hornbeck]

If something has no economic value, it generally doesn't last very long, especially not in the Third World. Monetizing elephants and other wildlife is the only way to create any incentive at all for people in those countries to conserve them. Otherwise they're just a danger and a nuisance to farmers.

Treating elephants as a natural resource and managing them as such - both for trophy hunting and for regulated ivory sale (as opposed to black market poaching) is their only hope for long-term survival.

Every animal that's managed as a game species in the US, from whitetail deer to elk to bears - is more abundant today than 100 years ago. If Africa can do the same for elephants, then elephant numbers will climb back to what they were once. If not, they'll just be extirpated.