And who will actually benefit from the sale of ivory? How many animals do they intend to cull (only the most mature with the longest tusks will fetch the best price; this will also encourage poachers)? And what is the estimated take in Euros/dollars of this haul? How long would it take for the anticipated revenue to trickle down to fund and improve social welfare programs? And what it the estimated cost of these programs? The logic that ivory will build schools and improve literacy is flawed. It assumes that a single source of revenue is the solution to an economic deficiency when, in fact, it's more likely a combination of many factors including poverty, distribution of wealth, inadequate management of resources, lack of political will. Zambia and Tanzania has reaped revenue from elephant- tourism. What it has done with it is another story.

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Really? He "was tortured"? According to whom? Careful FP - your bias is showing.

Wildlife must be protected, especially the endangered species. Even here in India Elephant tusk smuggling is on the rampage and the authorities are trying their best to curb it.
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All wildlife whether protected or not should be treated the same, what gives anyone the right to differentiate between animals. All of gods creatures were put on this earth for a reason, what gives us the right to decide which species lives or dies.

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At the rate protected wildlife is being killed of it is a wierd that there is not more opposition turning up that would really be a hard line opposition to all sorts of poaching protected animals.
It would really be nice to get some insurance that the future is not bare of a multitude of animals.

Poaching and cruelty on animals must be stopped, period.
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You have an interesting point of view, I must admit, I never thought about it that way.
Thank you for lighting that up for me.
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I don't know why so many people and country only want money but not the live or death of the animals. Perhaps this is human nature, no, shouble be some one's nature, not everyone. socks proxy list.

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In these kind of countries sometimes people have no choice other than destroying nature since there is no job for most of them.
They need to be supported first by developed countries to build a relatively strong economy before being judged.
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Neither of the two animals deserves the right to be treated inhumanely. I am pretty sure PETA is outraged by these issues. I just hope people will be educated and responsible enough to stop the killing of these animals.

IF people would stop buying these things, then there wouldn't be much issues. They wouldn't really bother about the elephants if they knew that people aren't interested.
My opinion though, these people are poor & practically have no future. Its hard for people like those in PETA who have the luxury of comfort & education to understand. To them, everything is black & white that there is absolutely no justification for killing of animals. I'm not saying that these people are right in wanting to go after the rest of the elephants especially since they're endangered but instead of criticizing them in their decision, why not help them instead. Help them find other sources of livelihood instead of just telling them to stop the killing. And while they're at it, make everything fair, rich country or poor!
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