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

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

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