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 ...
This part is the end to the article. The rest of it is well worth the read.
Robert Moses Browning?
Find a way to blame the white people.... lol
Millions starving, yet only the “farmers” hunted the animals... lol.
Africans?
Mugabe?
Still like the money quote from one story... ‘Where is the world’s care for those who are killed in the villages by animals?’
If you treat something like a resource, and make it profitable to care for that resource, you’ll keep that resource. If you don’t, well, we’ve seen what happens. The old finger of shame... Meanwhile, people starve.
I wonder how many of the dentist’s employees are now out of work while everyone’s busy shaming him and making threats against him?
I can't believe they said it.
The other point - $50K in hunts fees most definitely winds up in the pockets of Mugabe or his cronies.
They actually do kill the poachers they find.
They just adhere to the SSS rule.
Shoot
Shovel
Shut-up
They actually do kill the poachers they find.
They just adhere to the SSS rule.
Shoot
Shovel
Shut-up
Except for the last 2. They just let the other critters and vultures take care of that part.
Time actually gets it right for a change? Wow!
Mugabe's ZIMBABWE WANTS WHITE FARMERS BACK
There is a very good reason for the poaching, the blacks are hungry and their farms have failed
Or do only lions who are killed by people matter?
Mugabe has the signal honor of being the worst thing that happened to ‘Zimbabwe’ and arguably the worst thing that has happened to any post-colonial nation in Africa. He has earned these two awards because, like the Energizer Bunny, he keeps going and going and going. Other bad rulers had a much shorter half life but this guy has stayed on to completely ruin his country. And The West will not do anything about it. Wonder why.
Bush’s fault.
We got the Mini-Me Mugabe in charge of affairs here and we can't or won't even do anything about him.
Amazin! Here’s a better link - http://time.com/3976344/cecil-lion-zimbabwe-walter-palmer/
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