Charlotte Sullivan wrote:
> I have always had a problem with the concept of protecting a species
> because it is "endangered." Whales are a perfect example: The
hunting
> of whales is allowed until the numbers get "too low." Once this
happens,
> hunting is forbidden for a few years, until the population has a
> chance to make a come-back, wherein hunting is once again allowed.
> Therefore, temporarily forbidding the hunt simply becomes a sort of
> institutionalized breeding for the PURPOSE of hunting. In other
words,
> more whales will be born, only to be hunted during their adult years.
Unfortunately, our society...the human race (as I prefer to refer to us,
instead
of MAN) wasn't always as knowledgable as we are today. Habitat
destruction and
hunting was rampant, and the damage was often irreversible. Indeed,
these
problems still occur today, but we have made strides to try correct the
wrongs
of the past. Do you suggest that people of the southern United States
allow
Kudzu to overgrow and take over the niches of all native plants? Do you
feel
that the people of Australia should sit back and relax while cane toads
eliminate many native amphibians, found no where else in the world?
Yes, I feel
that hunting is morally wrong, but this issue needs to be looked at in a
different way. Do you think that it will be all right for us to allow
massive
extinctions to occur without attempting to stop them?
> As for the pigs in Hawaii, is it that crucial to Man's ego to protect
> one species by killing another?? Maybe if Man were to finally keep
their
> dirty hands out of the issues of Nature, something might finally turn
> out right.
Yes humans should keep their hands out of nature, but in this case our
hands
were already in there many years ago. Is trying to correct past wrongs
so bad?
If the pig populations were allowed to propagate without any
intervention, the
majority of organisms left on Hawaii will be pigs. Perhaps rounding the
pigs up
and transporting them to their original location is a proposition you
are
willing to consider.
Melanie
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