Re:Zero elephants poached in a year in top Africa wildlife park
by beaner on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:52PM
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If the protection of wildlife is profit-driven by governments, I'm fine with that. Maybe these other places where endangerment is a problem can learn from the other ones. If they can make more money from milking foreigners for protection, rather than land encroachment, maybe they wouldn't hesitate to try it.
The Borneo, Indian and Sri Lankan elephants are all endangered, while the Sumatran elephant is critically endangered. The Sumatran elephant is overwhelmingly not being poached for ivory, but being killed due to conflict with agriculture and human settlement; similar problems affect the rest of the Asian elephant population. Only a small proportion of conservation efforts are directed towards this critical but extremely difficult issue - how do you protect elephants from people, while also protecting people from elephants?