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To: kimtom

Sad indeed. And a good reminder that wealthy, Capitalist countries are better at preserving wildlife diversity than poor, Socialist countries (which is what Mozambique has been for most of its existence). Unlike what most environmentalists claim, the wealth generated by Capitalism results in people being less likely to make a living poaching, and to be more interested and have more wealth to donate to preserving animals like the rhino.


6 posted on 05/01/2013 5:51:50 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Capitalist countries don’t have that many exotic big animals in the wild, do they?


23 posted on 05/01/2013 6:28:51 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Sad indeed. And a good reminder that wealthy, Capitalist countries are better at preserving wildlife diversity than poor,


It is the increasingly rich populations in capitalist Asian countries that are demanding more and more ivory and rhino horns.


28 posted on 05/01/2013 6:32:44 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Not quite. Socialist Tanzania did a pretty good job for a long time preserving its big game animals.

How? By allowing legal hunting - which I believe it still does. Kenya, which outlawed hunting in 1976, saw its herds devastated by poaching.


44 posted on 05/01/2013 7:41:14 AM PDT by karnage
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