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South Africa recently lifted a ban on killing elephants, specifying that hunters are required to act quickly and humanely and use rifles with a minimum caliber of .375.
Ending the 13-year ban on elephant culls has drawn the ire of some animal-rights activists, but government officials contend the move is needed to control a population that has grown from 8,000 in 1995 to more than 18,000.
Elephants have no non-human predators and can turn woodlands into grass and stubs in just a few years.
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Tuesday 06 May
By RHONDA
Yup, killing these wonderful majestic creatures, that's the answer. and then when the populations dwindle down to almost extinct levels, AGAIN! then put them back on the endangered list. and start the whole hiddieous cycle over again, and it all boils down to one thing, the one thing humanes do sooo well, is expliotation of our wondeful planet, and all her resources, for the all mighty dollar! it's just absolutely, utterly, discusting! But, I do beleive in karma, and for all those pions, who need to prove their manhood with a gun, because they are lacking in other areas, I hope you come back as someone else's target some day!
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Tuesday 06 May
By ed
i wish i could afford to go elephant hunting. they are a very dangerous animal in the wild.
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Tuesday 06 May
By james carter
leave the animals alone all man does is kill these majastic animals why??? how about shooting each other sounds good to me. all animals are here for reason. the dumbest one being man whom should be extinct.
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Wednesday 07 May
By David
This is intolerable. Please purchase NO Diamonds until the elephant "cull" is called off. Maybe the deBeers company, which profits enormously from diamond sales mined in South Africa will exert enough influence on the South African Government to put a stop to this madness!
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Tuesday 06 May
By Lynn
There are millions of humans destroying the earth we don't have open season for them! This is disgusting, those poor animals. It breaks my heart.
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Tuesday 06 May
By Ross Kardon
To everyone opposed to culling the numbers of elephants in South Africa, and other African countries that have too many elephants: Why don't you get sense into heads and realize that if the elephant culling is not done, more elephants will die!
Elephants are wonderful creatures, but when their numbers get too large for their habitat, it is much better to selectively kill some of them, rather than let more of the elephants die.
And think on the bright side, when South Africa, and other African countries that still have trophy hunting take select numbers of elephants, loins, zebras, and other wildlife that can be sustainably hunted, the meat is distributed to the local people, the revenues paid by the trophy hunters goes toward giving the local people economic incentive for conservation, and pays for conservation efforts to help curb poaching!
I would much rather have trophy hunters take some of the elephants, and other wildlife, for trophies, than end sport hunting in Africa, and then as a consequence of there not being any money to pay game wardens, have poachers kill all of the these animal into extinction!
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Wednesday 07 May
By Michele
God said "Thou shalt not kill" I don't think he specified what.
Tuesday 06 May
By chris carpenter
Poor heffalumps! The ban should never have been lifted! What good does it do to shoot them? Do people eat them after they shoot them, or just mount their heads on the wall?
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Wednesday 07 May
By Angela
HELLO PEOPLE! Look you bunch of dumbbutts. First, the people who live in Africa are moving in on the elephants migration routes, if they did not do this ,elephants are SMART enough not to destroy their habitats! THATS WHY THEY MIGRATE!!!! THEY control their population.(Where we don't!) They help the land. Elephants in my opinion are as smart as dolphins, if not smarter! We should be priviliaged to learn from them. In stead we like to kill them all. I THOUGHT PEOPLE WHERE THE SMART ONES!! Guess I was wrong huh??? Second--if we put aside all arrogance and especially GREED then this would be a better place. Apparentally we ARE THE LOWER SPECIES AND CAN"T RISE ABOVE IT!!! PROVE ME WRONG PEOPLE!!!!!!! HA!! Save the animals that are here now--if we can't--How can we save ourselves???
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Wednesday 07 May
By Sharon Elizabeth
EXCELLENT POINT !
Wednesday 07 May
By Injun Mike
When I was in Zimbabwe, I was a guest of the Dictator For Life Mpual Ghahild....while we were attending the annual "Boil A Missionary Festival", some guy in tattered military fatigues ran up and whispered to him that some elephants were running around in his "Main Prostitute House".....Ghahild, furious, adjusted the bone in his nose and bellowed, "UNGOWWAA!!!!....MGUMBA!!!!.....NEENA TONA BEEBEE!!!!!"....
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Wednesday 07 May
By Judy
I'm not an animal activist but killing animals for the fun of it is just not right. It's pretty sick if you just want to know how I feel.
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Wednesday 07 May
By fallenstarr01
Okay, they're lifting the bans on elephants, what next? Eagles? Wolves? My only question is when are they going to let us hunt those who lifted the ban and those who actually go out and do this? Heck, when do we get to start hunting each other? We keep going like this and that's what it'll come down to. I have quite a few i'd personally like to start with...
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Wednesday 07 May
By Barney
It’s scary to see so few voices of reason in these blogs. Just mostly uneducated bunny huggers. As a life long hunter and fisherman it saddens me that so few people understand nature and how God truly intended things to work. If I typed up a long blog about hunting and fishing successes like ducks unlimited or Alaska’s great success with limited takes would you listen? Doubtful.
What if we spoke about the spotted owl lies and how their populations are actually doing now or the probably long forgotten Everglades’s deer trapping fiasco. Also very doubtful. God help you if you ever have to feed yourselves.
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Wednesday 07 May
By Monique
I would love to go into these hunters and lawmakers backyards and shoot their families down. Ther should be an open season in humans. The population is way out of control.
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Friday 05 February
By Ross
If you are against trophy hunting of elephants, then you are an ignoramus who knows nothing of the ecological situation in Africa!
For the sake of financing efforts to protect the elephants, loins, cape buffalo, white rhino, and other African wildlife from poachers, there absolutely has to be trophy hunting in order to give the local African people, in the African countries that have trophy hunting, economic incentive for conservation of these magnificent animals.
I would much rather have trophy hunters take a select number of the elephants, and other wildlife, give the meat and a percentage of the profits to the local African villages, than abolish sport hunting in Africa and force the local African people into poaching all of the remaining African wildlife into extinction!
In Africa, wildlife has to pay for itself, in order for conservation to work. Eco-tourism with wildlife viewing is good, but it just does not cover enough territory. So that is why ecologically sustainable trophy hunting is absolutely necessary.
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