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khyber
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 Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: Zimbabwe auctions for killing big game |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20060305/ca_pr_on_wo/zimbabwe_hunting
You know....race wars and pillaging are pretty messed up.
In the back of the mind, you gotta think that there MUST be SOME (at leastr quasi) logical reason for that tripe.
I hope someone has the balls to go "big game hunter" big game hunting.
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Wangja
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Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Rapier, Rapier, wherefore art thou Rapier? |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Can they hunt the locals after all the big game is gone? They really need culling. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Rapier, Rapier, wherefore art thou Rapier? |
Ahem..an irresistible thread!
Is this a trap?
Trophy hunting was a good way for wildlife to gain a commercial value and pay its way. A good hunter would only take out an aged or injured animal, and the whole rural community would benefit: a local taxidermist made a mint, the meat sold and proceeds to the villagers: and precious foreign exchange gained for the country. In this controlled way, formerly agricultural land was given over to game ranching and at one time Zimbabwe had Africas largest elephant population, for example. Wildlife prospered, and instead of simply poaching animals for food, people protected it as a resource. Because they knew Americans would pay big bucks to play big African game hunter for a few days.
All this was good.
But this mass auction is not normal. It is a desperate, out of control act -that follows Mugabe's disastrous policies- which have seen a large part of the countrys wild stocks devastated in recent years. Newly impoverished people trapping and snaring anything that moves: farm squatters clearing out every wild animal: govt ministers colluding in the illegal killing and smuggling of rhino horn and other endangered animals. A govt that turned a blind eye to massive poaching in an international trans border conservation area: that advocated people kill and eat whatever animals they wanted to feed themselves.
What you're seeing here is a few people determined to make a last profit on the little that now remains. Its all going to be gone soon anyway. And American dollars are a lifeline to a people who have seen their currency become worthless. You're talking a country with inflation nearly at 1000% now. Sound unbelievable? Check the latest news:
http://www.afrol.com/articles/10356
When they've finished off all the animals, they'll be eating eachother next.
Viewed from the safety of korea, Zimbabwe is a tragi-comedy, a pitiful joke that only Africa could've come up with.- can you picture bread manufacturers publicthreatening to murder govt ministers who force them to sell their bread cheaply and unprofitably- at the price a luxury house cost only 15 years ago? I'm sure the politically correct west didn't envisage this, when they helped all the criminals into power, back in the 70's. or maybe they did?
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Can they hunt the locals after all the big game is gone? They really need culling. |
No, they're for export.
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Rapier,
Zimbabwe is indeed a tragedy and it's painful for me to watch it unfold. Your pain must be almost unbearable at times.
Sorry to say, I think the worst is yet to come.
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Thargelion
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Life was a lot better in that sorrowful land while it was called Rhodesia. |
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