[marktwain]

Leave the damned elephants alone, and offer up some financial aide to replace the money that would have been raised by collecting trophies.

In conjunction, offer up rewards for “poacher pelts”.

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When the elephants are not worth anything to the local people, who view them as pests, the elephants go away and the local poachers become heroes.

That is the result of the policies you advocate.

Elephants breed to overpopulate the available habitat.

Either the government kills them, which costs money, sport hunters kill them, which brings in money, or poachers kill them, which wastes most of the elephant.

Those are your choices.

[DoughtyOne]

With the wide open tundra with thousands of miles of open range, it seems rather strange to talk about limited resources.

It’s not arguable that they are infringing on local habitat to hurt local residents either, because they do migrate over long distances each year.

They can also be relocated if they do overpopulate one area.

Look at our nation. We had buffalo herds across the midwest that looked like a flowing river. Today we have very few left. What a shame.