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- This type of conservation is obviously working. Half the people negatively commenting are probably enjoying eating fish, burgers and chicken wings or drinking beer filtered with fish bones or fuelling there cars with oil from decomposed dinosaurs.
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- This is absolutely disgusting. I don't even understand how this can possibly be going on in the United States of America. Who is the world are these men who want to KILL??!! I don't get wanting to kill and take home a dead part of the animal for a trophy. It is barbaric. I guess it makes sense it is in Texas where they also kill more human beings than anyone else. Please,someone stop this!
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- The logic is faulty, a desperate attempt to justify killing exotic species in our own country. It's just kicking the can down the road. There are imperilled species in the U.S. on the extinction list, are you hunters going to go out and kill them too? How would you justify that? We are in the midst of a massive extinction crisis, with global extinction rates 1,000 times higher than the natural evolutionary extinction rate.
Africa must sort out it's own poaching/extinction problems, just as the U.S. must do for it's animal extinction problems. I've been to Africa 5 times and it is getting worse, they certainly don't need this ridiculous non-sustaining 'solution' as their backstop. Wake up. - Reply to this comment
- Nah, whats messed up is how selfish some of yall are. I am definitely not a hunter, and have never had the urge to shoot something, however, what i find wrong is that because of what you view as moralistic, you are willing to be selfish and put your beliefs over the "greater good". I use quotations as many will argue the meaning of greater good, but without writing a novel, i intend it in this case as the survival of a species. Because you believe that hunting (these species) is "moralistically" wrong, one would rather see the species not exist at all. I rather people hunt 10% of the population so that the 90% can continue to thrive and that future generations can witness these creatures.
Instead of fighting to remove something that is actually working and helping mother nature out, why dont you use all of that energy and fight the inhumane treatment of the cows, chickens, and pigs that companies slaughter by the millions? I wouldnt mind spending an extra couple of bucks at the grocery store so that animals can at least live a good life before we chop em up and eat half of them before throwing away the rest because were full and wasteful.
I think a lot of people need to recheck their priorities? - Reply to this comment
- Say that to the millions of buffalo when they were almost hunted to extinction, man is more of an an animal than wildlife, whatcha gonna do when no more wildlife to eat, leave the wildlife alone for a while, like 10 years or more, lawmakers should do something, make it the caliphate of wildlife, instead of religion, smaller prison cells heavy fines for poachers!!
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- These weekend warrior a are a bloodthirsty bunch. What is the big deal about shooting something, with all the technology and tricks, it is a totally one sided match! If you don't kill innocent, defenseless animals the hunters want to kill you. Fat chance, since humans are not defenseless. They don't have the guts to play warrior for real, they will get hurt. I am an excellent shot but I feel no need to terrorize animals. What a screwed up ego, you feel important and get pleasure out of torturing and killing animals. Whats wrong? You get your head flushed in the toilet too many times when you were a kid, or maybe you were the flusher.
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- absolutely disgusting! these are cowards who shoot these animals. really sad that our world feels they need to make money off killing extinct animals.
I am more embarassed everyday with humans. - Reply to this comment
- Lora Logan's bit on trophe hunting African wildlife in Texas ain't no Pulitzer Prize work. The question she seemed to have difficulty with is, is the hunting of animals for the collection of heads to hang over the fireplace a moral activity, i.e., does not an animal have a right to live out its life as Nature intended? Is there not a natural law that life should be taken only to give life? And then Lora thoroughly bungled the issue of species preservation by not covering the work of conservationists all over the world that are setting aside protected regions to save endangered species. The idea that canned hunting is the only way to save an endangered species is ludicrous. Canned hunting is for wealthy egomaniacs, the profiteering gun makers and Safari International. Camera safaris do far more to protect animals in both their native lands and here in America. If you're going to do journalism, Lora, how about doing it right?
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- I am weary of people such as Ms. Feral who is dedicated to see that only Africa can host these African animals. What's next? African people must stay in Africa? European people must go back to Europe? If the federal bureaucracy agrees with her, we need to look further into the people who hold these beliefs.
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- Want to save a species...turn them over to the hunters...They know how to keep them around and not cost the government one red cent..The proof is in the pudding..
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