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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Euphemism allert! "...sampled..." Love that. Anyway, a bit of a comment, if I might. In the first part of this, I don�t necessarily see a one-to-one relationship between the big game hunters and the increased traffic in elephant ivory. Sure it�s all well and good that these fine fellows spent some money for the pleasure of shooting wild animals, but I can�t really see how that alone could sustain a regional economy, which is what you�re talking about. Mix into the equation the social unrest, civil wars, and famine, and there are certainly other economic factors at play here. Clearly the poachers saw the economic incentive in taking elephant tusks, but you could just as easily put some of that on the outlawing of the trade which drove the prices that a poacher might receive up. So, yeah, you take the trophy hunter money out of the picture and the locals are going to look for a way to make it up, but I question how much real impact they might have had. And I wonder what roll regional social-economic instability had in this. I have to imagine that at some point that more and more displaced peoples regionally were pushed into an area where the reward of poaching was greater than the risk As for the Richard Leakey paragraph, I�m not at all sure what the point is. What you may not notice is that it certainly bolsters the argument against re-opening ivory and skins trade. If heavily armed �rangers� couldn�t stop the poaching but the elimination of the end market did, well, why should we, as Mr. Bush�s administration seems to argue, re-open the end-market? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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