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.
Send birth control.
Maybe their haitian brethren, that took over that yankee town in ohio, can send them a bunch of pets and wild birds to eat instead.
Funny how they never had these problems when it was Rhodesia.
What? No cats, geese or ducks in Zimbabwe?
Maybe Hamas could send some of the aid they keep stealing? I hear they’re running out of room to store it all.
“Jumbo?” Trumpeting noises from The View
Spacy Abrams, Whoopy Goldberg and Rosie O’Donut have pre-ordered one jumbo each.
If they lowered the price of their trophy fees they wouldn’t have a problem.
Zimbabwe….talking to some South Africans I used to work with, Zimbabwe is considered the breadbasket of Africa. Apparently its climate and soil allowed them grow anything they wanted. That was when it was Rhodesia.
Eventually they ran off or killed the farmers. And the farming world disappeared.
Mugabe was an “Idi Amin” type leader. If someone was too slow getting out of his motorcade, the “someone”’was shot up with a belt fed machine gun and run into a ditch.
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.
A continent with gold, diamonds, oil, big game hunting/safaris which are huge $$$$, all the precious metals, technology to bring water to areas for farming and all they can do is kill, rape, pillage and immigrate to the US and Western Europe.
To increase the supply of any animal - start eating it.
What? No more white farmers to eat?
Easy for you to say.
“...one bite at a time...”
Black Elephant meat, too?
Bingo!!!!
Lowering the trophy fees will not only mean more elephants taken, but more hunters coming in spending money for transportation, food and lodging. They get the fees and hunting revenue and then use the meat for food. It’s a winning solution. If the government culls them the people will be lucky to see any benefit at all.
[Zimbabwe has about 100,000 elephants with a carrying capacity of about 45,000]
[Send birth control.]
People or elephant?
Shouldn’t there be some red dots where San Francisco and DC are?
Reminds me of the National Lampoon map of “The World According to Reagan” where the US is huge, taking up half of the world map and SF is shown in the color of the Warsaw Pact nations.
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