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Originally Posted by ratchet
I'm probably in for a kicking for this.................but it's so easy for us to be judgemental whilst enjoying our extremely comfortable 1st world existence. Life is far harder in the 3rd world. When your choices are to poach or to watch your family go hungry - you really are between a rock and a hard place.
It's the middlemen, the bribe taking officials and the end customer who really deserve the scorn
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Wouldn't dream of setting anyone up for a kicking, there is some merit in your sentiments, but poaching, torturing and killing wild animals will never solve the problem you rightly identify. That problem is hiding the real one.
It is more a political/governmental problem than a question of, if nothing else, the destruction of one of the country's very few means of tourist income. It is potentially the richest continent on Earth, corruption is rife and destroys human life just as much as the four legged variety. One wonders what happens to the millions in aid it receives. That might be put to better use than golden bathroom taps or Rolls-Royces.