On 7/4/2013 4:20 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > so what's the way we can best stop the poaching of rhinos?
There is a suggested techie fix, which is to inject dye into the horn: http://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-21-00-rhino-poaching-dye-and-let-live (I have no idea if this will prove effective. Did spraying paraquat on marijuana change US consumption patterns, and do damage to users? http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/14/us/us-to-resume-using-paraquat-on-marijuana.html ) But we first need holistic analysis, and here's a very rough first cut: * the source of demand is the East Asian aphrodisiac and traditional-medicines market, and it requires both policing and cultural shifts (as were achieved with tobacco in Western addictive, narcissistic, corporate-dominated markets where the combination of health professionals, health insurers and government advertising power versus producers proved quite effective); * the source of supply needs context, e.g. extreme social impoverishment in the areas surrounding national parks and game reserves in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa - where the bulk of killings are happening - and a much different approach to conservation (now it's tending towards commodification, as Bram Busher's new book - http://brambuscher.com/ - shows)... Ciao, Patrick _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
