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Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>
> I personally have a very different attitude. I would like to
> keep large areas entirely untouched and leave them to nature.
> Humans should be able to visit these areas, but only if they
> leave them essentially untouched.
Well, yes, but it's easy for us to say that when our ancestors have already
ruined our natural history and it isn't an issue for us at all. So we
inherit all the material benefits, as it were, of our ancestors ruination of
nature but want to deny these benefits to the people who still live in a
more natural continent?
It's getting the balance right which is so difficult.
I also hate to think of elephants being killed, obviously.
The 'starvation as the only result of not culling' argument is also used
here as a justification of red deer culling, but I haven't read any
scientific opposition to the theory as far as deer are concerned.
Maybe deer can't regulate their reproduction in the same way as elephants?
Slainte
Liz
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