A long,generally sound op-ed in today's NYTimes by animal behavior author Richard Conniff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01...html?hp&rref=opinion

praises Namibia for sound wildlife conservation policies, and hunters for their role, concluding by putting greens in their place.

Some quotes:

--The hunters come first, because the conservancies don't need to make any investment to attract them.
--...Namibia is just about the only place on earth to have gotten conservation right for rhinos and, incidentally, a lot of other wildlife
--Trophy hunting one rhino may thus save many others from being butchered.
--But so far nothing else matches trophy hunting for paying the bills...visit the conservancies...You will see that this country is doing grand, ambitious things for conservation. And you may come away wondering whether Americans, who struggle to live with species as treacherous as, say, the prairie dog, should really be telling Namibians how to run their wildlife.

Regards, Tim

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Originally posted by Tim Carney:
A long,generally sound op-ed in today's NYTimes by animal behavior author Richard Conniff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01...html?hp&rref=opinion

praises Namibia for sound wildlife conservation policies, and hunters for their role, concluding by putting greens in their place.

Some quotes:

--The hunters come first, because the conservancies don't need to make any investment to attract them.
--...Namibia is just about the only place on earth to have gotten conservation right for rhinos and, incidentally, a lot of other wildlife
--Trophy hunting one rhino may thus save many others from being butchered.
--But so far nothing else matches trophy hunting for paying the bills...visit the conservancies...You will see that this country is doing grand, ambitious things for conservation. And you may come away wondering whether Americans, who struggle to live with species as treacherous as, say, the prairie dog, should really be telling Namibians how to run their wildlife.
Regards, Tim

Excellent, and about time.

Outstanding article.........wonder when he will start getting death threats.....


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That is probably the best article ever written on the subject.

I love the ending. Ecological colonialism seems to be the goal of the anti's.

And in the NY Times. Wow.

Don

Nice piece. I bet there were a number of folks that choked on their lattes at Starbucks in NYC reading the NYT yesterday.

Even more suprising than the NY Times having something positive to say about hunting (albeit in an oped piece) was the general gist of the reader comments with my quick reading of them being more thinking the auction and hunt was a good idea rather than a bad idea.

Bravo!!!! Maybe the tide is turning ever so slightly, some are starting to see the eco-terrorists for what they really are, and hunters for what we have already done.

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Originally posted by DonW28:
And in the NY Times. Wow.

Don

Amazing that this came from the Obama Times!

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Originally posted by MJines:
Nice piece. I bet there were a number of folks that choked on their lattes at Starbucks in NYC reading the NYT yesterday.

...but so true!