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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Here's data then, Ritten. [URL=http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csp_cpor.htm]Australian saltwater crocodile[/URL] [URL=http://www.univenter.com/crocodile.html]Australian saltwater crocodile products.[/URL] [QUOTE]Sustainable use programs have been implemented in the Northern Territory, and have proven to be highly successful in giving people an incentive to preserve not only the crocodiles but more importantly the habitat which supports them. These primarily involve collection of eggs from wild nests, with payment for the eggs being given to the landowners. The hatchlings are then sold to crocodile farms for raising and skin production. Extensive surveys are conducted with the harvesting, which has demonstrated no detectable impact of the harvesting program on population growth. A trial harvest of wild, adult crocodiles involving aboriginal communities was started in 1997 - the first time crocodiles had been legally hunted in the Northern Territory for 26 years. Some discussion of safari-style hunting is now taking place, directed by traditional Aboriginal landowners, but such programs are yet to be implemented. [/QUOTE]Let me translate this for people like Lee who lack the ability to comprehend such big words. They harvest the crocodiles. They take the eggs. They make stuff out of the crocodiles' skins. They allow HUNTS. (So far, only by the Aboriginies, but they're thinking about expanding them) AND YET... The crocodiles are doing better in Australia than anywhere else. Now tell me why this can't happen to any other endangered species. (And try to do it without saying something that sounds like 'because Australians are good and holy, and the USA is evil and depraved.' Who do you think is buying the abovementioned products?) This is MANAGEMENT. It's not wholesale slaughter, it's regulated up the wazoo, just as you'd expect it to be. Thinking that the new initiative is going to open things up to mass killings is falling for the same slippery slope arguments you accuse the right wing of continually falling for. "They're gonna kill all the animals if they pass this hunting law!" is semantically equivalent to "they're gonna start 'aborting' infants and toddlers if they pass this abortion law!" Really, try to be less transparently hysterical. And next time, ladies, try to think up better insults to cover the fact that you have nothing to say and no counterexamples to argue. I mean, I half-[i]expect[/i] Veers and Cartman to ignore this evidence, but the rest of you know better. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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