Re: hunting & conservation/was ECOLOGY Conservation Principles and Transformations Re: primate watching

2007-08-14 Thread James J. Roper
I think it is a sad state of affairs when the people who pay for conservation are the hunters and the fishermen, and the people who do not pay are the rest. I think that if conservation is ever really going to happen, people need to learn how to live WITH nature. There are many species that will

ECOLOGY Conservation Principles and Transformations Re: hunting & conservation/was ECOLOGY Conservation Principles and Transformations Re: primate watching

2007-08-14 Thread Wayne Tyson
Wendee (The only reason I changed the subject line is because of my filing system; feel free to change it back): Wl, I think one has to be careful about cases. Personally, I find it repugnant to hunt for any reason other than food, and I would never suggest hunting as a means of fund raisi

hunting & conservation/was ECOLOGY Conservation Principles and Transformations Re: primate watching

2007-08-13 Thread WENDEE HOLTCAMP
This is a really interesting point. I wrote an article about Louisiana black bears about a year ago, a threatened subspecies of American black bear. I spent a week in the field while biologists relocated bear mommas and cubs to a different habitat in efforts to expand their range. One comment by on