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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:21 PM Original message |
Entire Elephant Herd In Sierra Leone's Only Wildlife Park Wiped Out By Poachers - AFP |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. human greed destroys everything it touches.... |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yes. This is really sad. Something must be done to help the animal population on the planet. |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Can we stop the human population growth? |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I wish. Although it is starting to be controlled by floods, starvation, disease, etc... |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. We could give the elephants guns |
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diane in sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 05:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. you stop the population growth by getting kids thru 6th grade, you get them to school |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. Tears n/t |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. If you saw the Nova program on the evolution of people, you kind of see where this is going. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Homo Demens |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. "... this is a great blow to all of us," said Bangura. |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
9. Make the punishment fit the crime. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
10. A bit of perspective: Sierra Leone has never had a large elephant population |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. As you can see from this graphic, Sierra Leone barely registers on elephant range |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 04:20 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Oh, that's alright then ... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 07:27 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. It's kind of like saying all the elephants in the London Zoo were massacred--Britain's entire herd |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Or like saying "a whole school of dolphins were massacred in Taiji"? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 02:36 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Your steadfast support for the slaughter of baby arctic seals for their fur disgusts me !!!11! |
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malakai2 (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Were they forest elephants or savanna elephants? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:16 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Good question -- there are now believed to be 3 species or subspecies |
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Laura902 (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-14-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. I believe that they were forest elephants |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
20. We're destroying the talismanic animals. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. What is this "soul" of which you speak? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Almost |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Ten millenia of increasingly horrible karma |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Sounds to me like some meditation is in order. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I no longer meditate |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Similar story here, though my wife just thinks I'm lazy. |
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Laura902 (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-14-09 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. We are not the only ones |
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