Posted on 01/30/2016 6:35:44 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Hollywood celebrities, global activists and heads of state are set to gather for an anti-poaching summit in Kenya later this year, Kenyan officials announced this week. More than 120 tons of ivory are to be torched during the April event in a display intended to express the East African country’s opposition to the illegal ivory trade, a spokesman for the president told local reporters.
Among those expected to attend are actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman, musician Elton John, financier George Soros, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chinese former basketball player Yao Ming, Agence France-Presse reported. Several heads of states are also expected to attend, according to Kenyan officials.
Anti-poaching campaigns have grown in Africa as hunting increasingly threatens the survival of a number of African animal species. Ivory from elephants is often smuggled to China and used for jewelry and other decorations. Tusks are also used in ornaments elsewhere in Asia, including in the Middle East. Ivory is often a symbol of one's wealth. The Kenyan stockpile set to be burned later this year could be worth as much as $270 million on the market.
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What about all that pollution of the atmosphere? Doesn’t global warming mean anything anymore?
Wonder how much of this has been switched out for the resin stuff.
I’m glad that there is nothing better that a country with a per-capita GDP of $1,245.51 could do with $270 million! Good to know that they don’t need any more foreign aid!
That’ll drive the price up and make poaching more attractive.
Waiting a minute, they want to stop the poaching of ivory, so they are decreasing the supply to up the demand?
Lower supply => Higher prices => More dead elephants
The King of hypocrites Leo DiCrapio was there? Immediately after, did he ride off in a ivory decorated limousine?
“Its a little bit funny” that a pianist is watching the destruction of piano key material. White keys only, of course.
WOW
the stupid, it hurts.
They could have sold that and made millions for their economy.
plus flooding the market with LEGAL ivory would have helped reduce demand, drove down prices and resulted in less poaching.
Now they have not only wasted millions, but will ensure Ivory is still hard to get and expensive and thus poaching will increase.
I guess none of them understand that keeping the ivory out of the market raises prices and makes poaching more profitable.
This makes me want to curl up in a corner, rock myself, and read Hayek.
If Kenya allowed hunting elephants again, hunters would pay $30-40000 to shoot a bull elephant, and the PH’s who guide them would police their area to protect it, and there would be elephants in excess, as in Zimbabwe and other areas.
Elephant hunting should be confined to the DC metropolitan area.
The dark continent has “poor” between its ears. It will never benefit from any amount of money or help because it is cursed with evil. I’d like to see actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman, musician Elton John, financier George Soros, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chinese former basketball player Yao Ming put up the $270M that could have been raised by the sale of this ivory as that is what it costs for them to get this publicity.
As of this wasting of a really neat product, the Hollywood types are reveling in this waste as “the message” goes out to the world about how they were part of something soooo important.
Liberals just don’t get reality ,or even simple concept like cause and effect.
Kenya disallowed hunting, went from 167K to 45K in numbers. Here is Zimbabwe’s situation.
n January, The Herald, one of Zimbabwe’s main daily newspapers, reported that there are 80,000 elephants in the country, more than the national game parks have the money or the ability to handle. Feeding these elephants uses up scarce resources, and Hwange National Park alone would spend up to $500,000 annually just for water for their elephants, said Geoffrey Matipano, the acting director of the National Parks and Wildlife Authority.
As a result, a Zimbabwean journalist, Jeffrey Gogo, argued that the country “has a right to draw income from its natural resources.†Matipano has also said that if legalized, trade in ivory could be used to “conserve the remaining animals.â€
Some experts at the UN say that the elephant population could be a burden. David Phiri, the subregional coordinator and representative for the Food and Agriculture Organization, said, “Looking at this from a sustainable use of natural resources perspective, it is indeed the case that the large population of elephants in Zimbabwe has continued to adversely affected the sustainable use and management of the natural resource that these very elephants depend on.â€
Phiri said that Zimbabwe has the environmental capacity to hold 50,000 elephants. The current population lies between 50,000 to 100,000, depending on government sources; others say the numbers are much lower.
“This high elephant population is above the carrying capacity, which would justify some culling/selling,†said Verity Nyagah, the UN Development Program country director in Zimbabwe. “The current population is stable, and any culling or selling should take into consideration factors like other ongoing population control measures, the current population growth rates, as well as poaching.â€
This is some idiocy right here.
“Elephant hunting should be confined to the DC metropolitan area.”
That’s FUNNY!
Of course I agree with your statement figuratively, not literally.
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