Comments on: China Wins UN Approval for Bagging Africa’s Ivory, and Attempts to Gag Activists’ Furore

By: cchiovitti

cchiovitti — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:03:46 +0000

This is just infuriating. How much longer to people think that we can continue to allow poaching on such a massive scale. China should be ashamed of itself, and the US should be too – we are the largest customers for illegally obtained exotic pets.

By: Naco

Naco — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:54:39 +0000

Your real problem seems to be the continuous habit to trat Africa as one messy land mass.It is short-sighted, ill-informed and even perhaps;Africa is full of different countries with different issues, and you are lumping them all as one and blaming poorly ran countries on South Africa.Botswana, South Africa and Namibia have been so successful at curbing poaching and securing elephants that it has become impractical to keep them above these number.What you want to do is punish well properly ran countries for the ills of other banana states.

By: Masimba Biriwasha

Masimba Biriwasha — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:18:23 +0000

You highlight a fundamental challenge in our cause of how to protect the environment while at the same time protecting human life. I know in Zimbabwe some communities that are being ravaged by overpopulated elephant conservancies. If we could believe that humans are not too greedy to only think of their own good, maybe we could accept a situation where the trade takes place within specified limits. But human greed and corruption is indeed a reality and will always be the bane to a environmentally sensitive consciousness.