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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Just a second bit of actual data: In Philip Caputo's ( National Geographicjournalist)book Ghosts of Tsavo, he relays how, when the big-game hunting was outlawed in Kenya in 1977, the market for ivory taken from the tusks of elephants grew exponentially. As a result, elephant poaching by Somali gangs on the border with Kenya, for whom a single tusk could far surpass several years worth of living expenses (Caputo says that the ivory from two elephants could yield a profit of $1 million US dollars) nearly depleted the species in the 1980s. Big-game hunters had a fairly marginal effect on the species, as they sampled relatively few animals, much like the policy that the Administration is supporting, and the dividends brought by their patronage served as an incentive to protect the wildlife and helped the Kenyan economy. Conversely, efforts by Richard Leakey, who headed Kenya's Wildlife Department and even formed a group of heavily armed "rangers" with armed helicopters to curb poaching, fell dramatically short until the international ivory trade was banned in 1989 when the species was threatened with extinction. While this approach may seem to be somewhat cold and on the surface seems to fly in the face of common sense, in fact the approach has documented success and is not nearly as "stupid" or "ill-thought" as one might imagine. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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