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Can hunting endangered animals save the species?

January 29, 2012 4:01 PM

Some exotic animal species that are endangered in Africa are thriving on ranches in Texas, where a limited number are hunted for a high price. Ranchers say they need the income to care for the rest of the herd. Animal rights activists want the hunting to end.

Can hunting endangered animals save the species?
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by PaulGantt February 22, 2013 8:56 PM EST
If Priscilla Feral and the rest of the "Friends of Animals" followers were serious about their concern for the lives of the Oryx in Texas they would pay the farmers the trophy fee of $5,000.00 each and then pay to have them captured and then pay to have the put in quarantine to make sure they are disease free and then pay to have them shipped to Africa to repopulate their native lands.

But we all know that won't happen because "Friends of Animals" doesn't really care about animals of any kind.
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by stickstone February 8, 2013 3:00 PM EST
I honestly don't know if hunting endangered speices actually "helps" the speices to thrive! As a conpromise position - I think it would be a good idea to have an outside source keep tabulations of the quantities of all the various animals & actually determine if this is a true fact. In other words an oversite group of people. Since the government thinks that can hunting is OK - - let them prove it with an oversite group designated to study the effects of whatever hunting is going on for a number of years - that are unspecified to the ranch owners - - (so that they don't change the way they are already doing things). Also, I do not believe that many or most of these endangered animals would be necessarily better off in their original countries habitat. Way too many things have and are changing in these countries. More lands are using lands for farming & poaching has always been a very serious problem. I think this whole "thing" needs to be studied more intensly.
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by resulay January 25, 2013 8:49 PM EST
I should leave this page. THIS IS A MODERN TERRORISM.
They can earn money by using their mind not their gun. ******* murders.
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by Et4483 November 10, 2012 12:34 PM EST
This is sick - and it's disgusting that CBS is supporting this kind of horrible enterprise by posting this video and making it seem like this is HELPING the animals while in the mean time these are CANNED KILLING AREAS - DESPICABLE. ENDANGERED SPECIES being KILLED at close range for a price. SICK. I'm boycotting CBS and encouraging all everyone I know to do the same.
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by chevy_ssr August 7, 2012 7:28 PM EDT
Lara,

I met you the first time in Ramada during the Police recruiting in Ramadi. You did a good job of covering this.

What you felled to connect is that the Teddy Roosevelt conservation model. Sports hunters have the greatest vested interest in preserving their pass time and that includes the animals they hunt. Good conservation practices produces a surplus which sports hunters can harvest.

Over 100 years of this conservation ethic has not only saved wildlife in this country but reestablished it. Now it is saving African animals via Texas game ranches.

The truth is this. Kenya banned game hunting and saw 70% of the wild animal population disappear. Altruism won't work in Africa either for these animals.

Perhaps, the only way to save the African White Rhino is to farm them for their horns (You can remove them every two years and get about $25,000 per horn. They will grow right back.)

Right now the thought there is a huntable population of an animal (scimatar oryx)that I was sad to read was gone from the wild in Texas, excites me not just because of a chance to hunt one, but this was the key to saving the American Bison. A small population of animals kept and raised on ranches (and actually harvested and sold for their hides and meat). This is what established Yellowstone, Custer State Parka and the National Bison Range herds. What you missed is this and what these animnal rights people missed...the real history and lessons learned the hard way in the American Conservation Model. You can't just depend on altruism. You need an incentive to preserve wildlife. And the AMerican Sports hunters (like Teddy Roosevelt) have been paying the freight to make it happen.
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by metom35 June 19, 2012 12:23 AM EDT
With the poverty in Africa, it's full of corruption and poachers.
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by Elli0tt1234 June 10, 2012 8:01 PM EDT
Miss Priscilla Feral obviously has no grasp on reality. While it would be wonderful if these beautiful animals could survive without being hunted, disregarding the plain fact that these animals would not survive without being hunted is unrealistic. Passing laws to forbid the hunting of these animals should be considered criminal by the very institution she leads. You cannot focus on trigger words; hunting, while often a stigma, is necessary in this case. Just as the same type of groups use their ignorant and simplistic views on animal rights to insist that all people should be vegetarians, or all people should only eat grass fed cattle because those cattle have happier lives. This slightly psychotic perspective gives no thought to the families who depend upon meat production and the average person who realizes that **** sapiens function the best when receiving proper nutrition. Human brains require a lot of energy to function. The reason our species and our predecessors have been able to survive is because of the dense nutrition that meat provides. Maybe lack of proper nutrition is why Miss Feral is having trouble touching bases with reality. If you want to be a friend of the animals, sometimes you must let a few individuals perish for the survival of the whole. Not to mention, this law is robbing families of their income. I think Miss Feral's work and initiatives lack logical bases. She is obviously not intellectually fit for the position she holds. I just hope that her underlings eventually realize that she is inept. She should be ashamed of herself.
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by Eltigregh May 6, 2012 6:19 PM EDT
Wow. That lady is dumb. Doesn't she realize they'll be killed in Africa anyway? Plus they'll become extinct.
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by ElaineUO March 31, 2012 10:23 PM EDT
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/30/3849395/controversy-over-texas-antelope.html#storylink=cpy This article pertains to this 60 Minutes segment.
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by eelal March 3, 2012 8:33 PM EST
In Texas, Oryx may be shot, cleanly killing the animal, and that killing pays for keeping the herd safe and healthy. They have gone almost extinct and need to be re-inbtroduced from here. PETA wants to send them back to Africa where they are in constant danger from being torn apart by lions, grabbed by crocodiles at waterholes, killed by hyenas and wild dogs who capture them by biting through their hamstrings and then start eating them while still alive, or distract them from their calves so they caN EAT THEM WHILE STILL ALIVE. Which is more cruel ???????????????????
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