Posted on 05/14/2018 4:15:23 PM PDT by Simon Green
They need the animals for their hunts....where they make BIG bucks.
Poaching. Not wildlife killing.
And it actually has been for some time. Somalis cross the border and poach in the national parks. If they are caught they are often shot on the spot by the Kenyan Park Police.
I'm all in favor of it. Hopefully those offenders on death row won't sit in a Kenyan prison for 20 years and scores of appeals to a supreme court...........and that their sentences be swiftly carried out.
The poachers are often heavily armed Somali mohammedans who also are prone to commit murder, rape and other mayhem on any civilian that crosses their path then vanish back across the border.
This tends to make the tourists uneasy about coming so it has to be dealt with.
Way too harsh. Equates the killing of animals with the killing of people. Violates Biblical standards.
Big game hunting has been illegal in Kenya since 1976. You may be thinking of Tanzania.
I saw the story posted at Democratic Underground, and the typical reaction there was "I'm against the death penalty under any circumstances, but I'll make an exception in this case!"
Unfortunately, socialist governments--and the Unites States--resort to extreme means, including execution of poachers, in their unsuccessful attempts to preserve wild animals.
Incentives need to be reversed from penalizing to rewarding, and that will not happen when the government owns all the land native wildlife live on. Public land is nobody's land and gets no respect, and neither do its occupants.
In contrast to the failed Kenyan prohibition policy, Namibia and South Africa seem to be doing much better in preserving their white rhino population by making wild animals assets rather than liabilities to landowners.
If you'd like to know more, read this paper at PERC: The War on Wildlife Trade.
I went to Kenya in 2003 and I agree with you. The Kenya Wildlife Service takes poaching very seriously. Seemed like every newspaper I read had a story about a shootout with poachers, they only changed the date and location.
If they're running low on Somalis I know where there's a whole boatload of them.
Having done a fair amount of traveling in East Africa I know just how important tourism is to the economies of countries like Kenya,Tanzania and Botswana.
They're shooting the poachers to save their national economy...not as punishment for killing the animals.
I cant quite decide if somalis or palisimians win the award for earths biggest scum bags
I don’t know of any country where all land is private, and how would that ever work for widely roaming species of beasts? Oh that was my elephant, Chuck, but now that it’s on your parcel it’s yours....
Guarding the beasts on public land is often the only practical way to go. It’s hard to do it against humans with a fatalistic philosophy however. A Trumpesque wall may be needed. If it’s hard enough to get poachers in and carcasses out, the practice will end.
If they want a deterrence they could feed poachers to the lions and hyenas.
How many of them even get caught? That’s a most important factor. Fatalistic people are less daunted by severity, more daunted by certainty.
Electronically tagging as much poaching-prone game as possible could increase the likelihood of catching a poacher.
Poaching is sickening and it is destroying species. This is what the stupid left mixes up when it comes to hunting.
In fact if you want to start a fight tell a Kenyan his mother was Somali. They have been having to deal with them for a thousand years.
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