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Originally posted by shakari:

..... I have to say I trust the media about half as far as I can throw their collective arses.

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Originally posted by shakari:
NEVER to tell them anything at all except to either issue a press statement and/or to direct them to those articles & also to tell them I'll have no hesitation in suing if they misquote me.

There's no such thing as a trustworthy reporter.

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Originally posted by JohnDL:
It might be useful to do a search to see what previous articles this journalist has written.

If she has written previous anti-hunting articles, anything you give her would, at best, be taken out of context and used against hunters.

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Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
many thanks, very good article especially as it shows figures.

Much appreciated

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Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
To the wise of AR,
An American journalist who is writing about the debate regarding hunting and conservation has contacted me (APHA). I don’t know if she is pro hunting or not and I do not want to enter into this debate at length with her, but I would like to give her some examples of how the two go hand in hand.

I am of course familiar with Tanzania, but I know South Arica, Zimbabwe etc has many success stories with conservancies, as well as the United States with mountain lion, white tail and even organizations like ducks unlimited.

I would appreciate any thoughts, facts on this, and as I said not only pertaining to Africa.

I will of course read your points on AR but feel free to email me as well.

executiveofficer@africanpha.org

Thanks
Mike

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Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
Certainly an anecdotal example but I would say the return of game to Andrew Baldry's "Royal Kafue" is a fine example of hunting dollars driving conservation of natural resources.

Yes, indeed we all know that how many dollars hunting brings to conservation and it is a good argument for hunting but and anti can argue that they will also give $X to "Royal Kafue" with out the need for hunting. I may be wrong but I heard Kenya stayed closed because the Anti's said they would match how much they could make from hunting, which they may have given but there wasn't anyone interested in keeping the farms off the Athi Plains so that the wilderbeest could migrate, if Athi Plains was a hunting block the holder would have raised all kind of hell (hopfully, or he may have just bribed to get a better Block...but lets not go there....)

What needs to be explained is how the actual act of hunting conserves. I believe there are more Whitetail in USA than ever in history! why? because of hunters who like to hunt them, hunters have done extraordinary research on whitetail so they are healthier, breed better, etc etc, why? to hunt them, one example of how through hunting there is conservation. The same happens with Ducks, how many Americans flood acres of corn fields to hunt 6 Ducks, 1000's of Ducks have easy feeding and actually have feeding grounds so that 6 a day can be hunted, (or what ever the limit is)

Thanks for all the help

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Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
she also send me this link, my internet is really slow so have not been able to watch it yet


you might find a television report recently shot in Texas quite interesting. It was about a similar topic, but examined the used of fenced ranches in Texas: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7396832n

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
The woman is Yasmeen Qureshi
Video Producer

Not related to Faroukh by any chance?

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Originally posted by Mike Angelides:

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike Angelides:
The woman is Yasmeen Qureshi
Video Producer

Not related to Faroukh by any chance?

hahaha That would make things very easy!