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In reply to the discussion: Wildlife poachers in Kenya 'to face death penalty' [View all]Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)threatening them with death - which unless it's a long and torturous death, is pretty fast and painless - all well and good. The impressive big game creatures we all learned to admire as kids are a highly visible thing that we can all "get behind" to protect. But WHERE are the deterrents to the MANY species being eliminated from the face of this whirling rock every day? The seemingly insignificant dowdy-feathered "sparrows" ( there are myriad distinct varieties of them) edged out by a high-dollar housing development - or slash & burn rain forest clearing - or islands of plastic trash in what ought to be pristine deep water havens - who gets a noose for those?
War on those trading in Rhino horn aphrodisiac? Yeah - hang that son-uva-bitch! War on some poor schmuck trying to grow a few vegetables for his hungry kids - and by doing so, eliminating the very special environment that a bird you never heard of loses it's toehold to for a patch of Taro roots - let's send them some aid.