Posted on 08/01/2015 4:01:55 PM PDT by digger48
Until 2000 Zimbabwe had a successful wildlife-management program, with many big-game animals flourishing. But by 2003, a staggering 80% of the animals that had lived on Zimbabwean safari camps (which employed firm quotas to regulate animal population sizes) had died. By 2007, there were only 14 private game farms in the country, compared with 620 prior to the land seizures of 2000, according to a National Geographic report. With the protection of private game reserves nearly nonexistent, once abundant wildlife began dying off, hunted by desperate farmers with no other options for sustenance.
Despite the passing of harsher laws for poachers in 2011 illegal hunting in Zimbabwe is still big business. Poaching syndicates earn hundreds of thousands of dollars exporting ivory and animal skins. Many conservationists believe allowing the community to reap the benefits of wildlife management — by, ironically, running the sorts of safaris on which Palmer shot his lion — will help curb illegal poaching. But it is impossible to have that debate while the world brays for the ruin of a lone Minnesotan dentist, and fails to criticize a regime whose policies were responsible for the almost complete extinction of Zimbabwean wildlife in the first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Thank you!
I didn’t look to see if my linky was right. DOH!!!
Hmmm, are those white farmers forced off their farms at gunpoint, or gunmen who seized farms and had no idea how to farm?
I think TIME wants people to think it’s the white farmers kicked off their land.
It’s a major business there. A search on internet reveals hundreds of stories, advertizements, descriptions, of the hunts, etc. Below is just a small example:
” A paradise for big game hunters!
Zimbabwe is without doubt the absolutely greatest destination for big game hunting. Here you can find solid populations, that can easily sustain hunting, of four of the big five: elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard. We work with some of the best safari outfitters in this classic hunting destination, which is naturally mirrored in the success of our customers.”
Who cares?
Evidently you did not read the article...
This was in TIME MAGAZINE???!!!! Good Lord it really is the End Time.
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