No, it's only due to human conflict, not poaching, so that makes it okay.

You can also blame China...

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And an interesting WSJ article that I can't link to here.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190410670457658002001240 6 078.html

These are just a few articles that I have bookmarked. It's a fricking mess and it's the elephants that are losing. :(

You can also blame China...

Yes, replace Chinese women with something that Chinese men might actually want to put it in, and a lot of endangered species might survive. I'm not saying all of them are ugly, but repeated insertion leaves Chinese men looking to snort powdered tamarind monkey ballsack as opposed to admitting that woman was a lot more attractive when she was 18 as opposed to now.

/Am waisis.

Sometimes I think humans don't deserve this planet.

Someone needs to convince the Chinese that powdered Republican testicles are an aphrodesiac.

People might suck, but people in Africa ESPECIALLY suck. Seeing how they are hellbent on completely turning their living space into a hellhole.

Do you include ALL people in that statement or just White people? And if you mean 'white people' and I think you do do you mean really mean only American white people suck?

Or do you include the Africans that are trying to eke out a living over there?

And if you mean the Africans suck for trying to live and feed their babies, doesn't that basically make you a racist?

Or do you just consider it 'Third World peoples' problems'?

BarbadoSlim: People might suck, but people in Africa ESPECIALLY suck. Seeing how they are hellbent on completely turning their living space into a hellhole.

Really? In what way?
Don't forget that the Americans managed to wipe out an entire race of people and several species which numbered in the millions within a few short years of their arrival.

Africa is just doing what the west has already done - developing. And much of the west's development was fueled by slaves and resources plundered from Africa. Now that we're living in comfort, burning 15 times as much fuel per person as the average African it's easy to sit back and criticize, isn't it?

Twin 40s: No, it's only due to human conflict, not poaching, so that makes it okay.

Ummmm...

FTFA: In some of the best-documented cases to date, the study shows the elephant population in the Okapi Faunal Reserve -- one of the last strongholds of forest elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -- saw a 50 per cent decline in the last decade due to civil war and ivory poaching, from 6,439 to 3,288. In other parks in eastern DRC, the decimation was even greater.

What do you mean 'you people'?!

What do these things eat? Anything with leaves?

Shiat-ton of empty space in the American West... theoretically, we could move them there? No conflict...

whatshisname: Don't forget that the Americans managed to wipe out an entire race of people and several species which numbered in the millions within a few short years of their arrival.



R.I.P.

Marine1: What do these things eat? Anything with leaves?
Shiat-ton of empty space in the American West... theoretically, we could move them there? No conflict...

Oh yeah. No conflict. Except there's no trees, no vegetation, and cows are king.

Although I'd pay good money to watch a bunch of elephants beat down on a herd of cows.

how bout we make elephants the new cow?

whatshisname: BarbadoSlim: People might suck, but people in Africa ESPECIALLY suck. Seeing how they are hellbent on completely turning their living space into a hellhole.

Really? In what way?
Don't forget that the Americans managed to wipe out an entire race of people and several species which numbered in the millions within a few short years of their arrival.

Africa is just doing what the west has already done - developing. And much of the west's development was fueled by slaves and resources plundered from Africa. Now that we're living in comfort, burning 15 times as much fuel per person as the average African it's easy to sit back and criticize, isn't it?

Ok, ok... but can we all still agree that China sucks?

cryinoutloud: Marine1: What do these things eat? Anything with leaves?
Shiat-ton of empty space in the American West... theoretically, we could move them there? No conflict...

Oh yeah. No conflict. Except there's no trees, no vegetation, and cows are king.

Although I'd pay good money to watch a bunch of elephants beat down on a herd of cows.

Not impossible to plant some stuff.