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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by PhasmaFelis on Sunday June 18, 2017 @03:57PM (#14582551)
> Elephants are important for the ecosystem, IIRC something like 70% of all species in certain areas rely on them. If you remove them from the ecosystem by domesticating them, you are doing a damaging the ecosystem in multiple way.

I'm not sure why you think this is an either/or proposition. I mean, I accept that farming elephants isn't practical for a lot of reasons, but no one's talking about putting every living elephant on a farm.

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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by adamnemecek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:08PM (#14582624)
Effectively that's what would happen under a legal ivory sales system. Poachers would effectively wipe them out in the wild.
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by PhasmaFelis on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:50PM (#14583151)
Which they're doing anyway. It might not improve the situation, but it can hardly make it worse.
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by adamnemecek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:56PM (#14583176)
No universally no. Countries that have shoot in sight poaching policies have very low poaching rates.
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by eru on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:08AM (#14619232)
How does due process work? Could anybody just murder anyone else and give a credible defense of "I thought that guy was a poacher?".
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by PhasmaFelis on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:19PM (#14583554)
Why would that change if elephants were also farmed?
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by adamnemecek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:26PM (#14583581)
There are other ways of making the situation better?
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Re:The Mammoth Pirates by eru on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:06AM (#14619221)
The perfect is the enemy of the good?
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