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Fish and Game commissioner hunts ‘family of baboons’ in Africa, faces calls to resign
Idaho Statesman ^ | 10/12/18 | Chase Cripe

Posted on 10/13/2018 10:13:59 AM PDT by Simon Green

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To: Mariner
But there is no justification for sport hunting primates and most other sentient creatures. It’s simple blood lust and it’s wrong.

’ Baboons raid crops and sometimes attack humans. Thinning their numbers with sport hunting makes perfect sense.

21 posted on 10/13/2018 12:12:33 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Shooting endangered species is not a career booster.

It does NOT make you look manly to kill an ape who does not know how to use a bow and arrow.

Hint hint go for the deer hint.

Shoot the species there are plenty of, hint.


22 posted on 10/13/2018 12:14:05 PM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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To: TheNext
Shooting endangered species is not a career booster.

Baboons aren’t endangered.

Shoot the species there are plenty of, hint.

Like....baboons?

23 posted on 10/13/2018 12:27:55 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Abortion is legal, too. Do you support it!!!!?


24 posted on 10/13/2018 12:45:50 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

This guy hunted ‘em with a bow and arrow. Over in Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa at least) the farmers and game rangers use assault rifles...I chat once in a while with a Zim farmer who went through all the bureaucratic hoops to get an FN-FAL for that very reason.


25 posted on 10/13/2018 12:59:16 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: 4yearlurker
They don't call 'em baboon butt's for nothing ya know. ;)

wrote Fischer an email asking him to resign “to shield the commission as an institution and hunting as a legitimate tool of wildlife management from the harm that is sure to come.”

Except that's exactly what Fish and Game does. It determines the number of a given species, say deer, elk, or bears, in a given area and determine what that number should be to keep the species healthy as a whole. That's how they decide how many tags to issue in any given year for hunting.

I personally don't see how anyone could enjoy killing a bear but intellectually I know they can over populate making it hard on all (black) bears in an area. That's why we see them coming down out of their forests into human populated area (like Phoenix) to look for food.

No one wants to see a healthy plant and animal life more than hunters. Not even conservationists. Hunters want to be able to come back year after year to enjoy nature. Most leave their camping and hunting sites (and surrounding area) better than how they found them. It's their way of giving back.

26 posted on 10/13/2018 1:24:55 PM PDT by Boomer (Better Dead Than Dem)
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To: Simon Green

Why go to Africa when we have so many here?


27 posted on 10/13/2018 4:02:10 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Simon Green

Never apologize. In fact, tell them to stuff it.

L


28 posted on 10/13/2018 4:03:30 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Simon Green

Baboons are a pestilence in Africa similar to coyotes.


29 posted on 10/13/2018 4:07:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Simon Green

“Baboons raid crops and sometimes attack humans”

Is there any referenceable data from the country of the hunt that indicates this is a problem that needs to be managed?

I could be convinced.


30 posted on 10/13/2018 5:12:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Baboons attacking people:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RX0A_PTuQCQ

Crop raiding:

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/9281/Govan%20Pahad%20MSc%20thesis.pdf?sequence=1

Just a couple of links out of many.

31 posted on 10/13/2018 6:39:54 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: Simon Green

He resigned.

What an idiot. How about using some common sense.


32 posted on 10/15/2018 6:19:55 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Defiant
Why go to Africa when we have so many here?

Where are there baboons in the US?

33 posted on 10/15/2018 6:20:41 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

In Congress and Academia.


34 posted on 10/15/2018 11:25:36 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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