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I suspect that these proposals are partly due to desperation. Nothing else seems to be working; At least if we're farming them there's an incentive to keep enou
by ori_b 11y ago
I suspect that these proposals are partly due to desperation. Nothing else seems to be working; At least if we're farming them there's an incentive to keep enough alive that they won't go extinct.
- danharaj 11y agoWhile that's some consolation, the loss of genetic diversity within the species is tragic.
- adamnemecek 11y agoThe thing though is that these proposals usually come from groups that are not exactly impartial. These include e.g. Safari Clubs, "anti-environmentalist think tanks", ranchers and other groups who would gain from free trade of wildlife products. > Nothing else seems to be working; That's the thing though, not much has been tried as far as bans go. The current bans leave a lot of loopholes so getting around the restrictions isn't exactly hard.