Posted on 09/16/2024 2:19:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
FacebookTwitterWhatsAppFlipboardLinkedInRedditEmailShare The government is considering culling its elephant population to address food shortages and combat the effects of an El Niño-induced drought.
Farai Maguwu, Director of the Center for Natural Resource Governance, expressed concerns that the proposal to cull elephants would attract widespread condemnation, much like Namibia's decision. Zimbabwe has about 100,000 elephants with a carrying capacity of about 45,000 and is unable to sell some of the jumbos because of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
The country is among five southern African nations heavily impacted by the drought, leaving millions food-insecure. Namibia's decision to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, to provide food for drought-affected populations was controversial.
Guess they done ate up all the dogs and cats! Sad and in a country where everyone is a millionaire. We headed there cept we got no elephants.
I remember the big concerts and fundraisers to ‘feed africa’ and the result is huge overpopulation and suffering followed by the bleeding hearts importing these people to Europe to be used as modern slaves. Good times.
Let’s see how PETA responds.
The elephant is only non-simian land animal that can recognize itself.
There is something to be said of for that.
Elephants can recognize other elephants that they have not seen in years and they also recognize humans that they have not seen in years.
I don’t think we should be killing animals that display traits of human like intelligence.
Drought, huh. The biggest threat to the food supply is corrupt government leaders.
[New leadership started asking old farmers to come back. Work their old farm, can’t own it, but grow some food. Not sure how many went back. Don’t think many did.]
The government of Zimbabwe couldn’t manage a lemonade stand, much less a country.
8 months ago, elephants were dying due to drought. This may be Zimbabwe’s Dust Bowl era.
Thank you!
This twisted world gets uglier by the day.
Nothing is cherished!!
Cherished, sentient creatures!
Those who know me will remember my amazing elephant collection. I even got to ride one! All lost to Almeda.
Over the years I got gifts from loved ones of elephants. Fabulous ones!! I miss them so. My social climbing half sister sent me a purse made of elephant hide...I thought it was a disgusting gesture. I couldn’t throw it out. I packed it away for 40 years and finally decided to honor the elephant and use it.
We aren’t allowed to cherish anything anymore. It’s all too fleeting.
BABIES lives.. don’t matter. We even destroy our cherished sexuality now! I cherished being a mother and wife and woman!!
I cherished my country! Patriotic is a dirty word.
My God.
How did we come to this?
[I remember the big concerts and fundraisers to ‘feed africa’ and the result is huge overpopulation and suffering followed by the bleeding hearts importing these people to Europe to be used as modern slaves. Good times.]
Let them starve. They created their misery they can enjoy it.
Juxtapose all this idiocy for their out of control continuing inflation and destruction of real food producing farms for the Communist Mugabe (now thankfully dead)— with the following:
RJ Reynolds contracts and purchases burly (chewing twist) tobacco from Zimbabwe at cheap prices, when they could be buying from US farmers. This is something not spoken of much- the globalist ripoff artists of Big Tobacco, glad to do business with thug controlling Marxists. Mugabe had huge accounts in Geneva.
I remember those days well. Grey’s Scouts, Crippled Eagle Club, trunk lines from SA phones, Zamboons mercs from Mozambique and on and on. Many Rhodesian were able to get Portuguese passports in the final days.
Those that stayed suffered badly.
Most food shortage issues are due to corrupt government and incompetent handling of something like this.
I wonder what the true story is.
There were asking some of the to come home. Live and work their old farms, but would never get actual ownership of the land like they used to.
That was actually happening in South Africa, in a way. People lost their farms because they were just taken. Some od the “new owners” asked/allowed the farmer to stay, work the farm, split the money. Although that was not common and the majority of farms and now, just weeds
When it was Rhodesia, wasn’t Zimbabwe the food basket of Africa?
I wonder what Elephant tastes like?
Can’t be any worse than some of the stuff I’ve eaten in restaurants, which is alleged to have been Chicken.
I’ve probably, unwittingly eaten Cat, Dog, Rat.
It wasn’t very good!
***The country is among five southern African nations heavily impacted by the drought, leaving millions food-insecure.***
Strange. I don’t think Rhodesia ever had such a problem till...
Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud
Modernist thinkers that convinced intellectuals that all that old, true and beautiful, all that had been honored by their parents and ancestors was foolish and antiquated.
Eventually most scholars were taken in and started teaching the new philosophy of nihilsim.
From there morality and simple thoughts of good and evil to be belittled and those who believed in God and the final judgement were ridiculed.
Nietzsche gave us people like Hillary Clinton and Slow Joe.
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