"sportsfan" wrote in message
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> "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:44:52 GMT, "Scott Elliot"
> > <19elliot46@telus.net> wrote:
> >
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> > The "cruel option of self-control by starvation" is another
> > myth, sometimes put forward by culling proponents. The truth is
> > a bit more refined. Elephants do not breed when they starve.
> > They already have their own birth control and had it also before
> > humans existed.
>
> Hans
> I'm afraid I agree with many rangers in the Kruger who
> have devoted many lifetimes living with nature, and they
> all recommend culling. Elephants do destroy the bush
> and when the rain doesn't come the flora just cannot
> cope. Starvation does occur within certain areas that
> are over populated. As the Kruger is fast becoming since
> green people have made it politically incorrect to cull.
> snip
> >
> > But the
> > least I can do is uncover the lies and misinformation due to
> > lack of understanding.
>
> What qualifies you, to say that people in favour of culling
> are spreading lies and misinformation, do you believe you know
> better than rangers with 30 years of experience. ?
> >
> > I will not even to try to go into the question whether elephants
> > are sentient beings, and whether it would therefore be immoral
> > to kill them.
> >
> > Hans-Georg
> >
> > --
> > No mail, please.
I heard the same discussion in 1995, when I visited Zimbabwe/Botswana.
Since tourist don't like starving elephants, so there were a lot of
artificial wells in the parks to give the elephants water.
As a result elephants will never die from starvation because there is not
enough water.
The herds of elephants were growing and they were scaring away other animals
from the water.
I don't thinks waiting until all trees and plants have gone (and elephants
starve because there is no food) is an option.
In my opinion, we either let the elephants starve or we have to
shoot/displace them (or use some kind of birth control).
Jan
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