Kill ‘em all
Posted on October 20, 2003
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In a move that defies all possible logic, the Bush government is proposing open season on endangered species around the globe under the guise of helping to preserve them:
“This Bush policy is truly Orwellian, encouraging killing endangered animals in order to save them,” said Carroll Muffett, director of international programs for Defenders of Wildlife. “Turning these species into commodities will only increase the slaughter and encourage illegal trade and poaching.”
The USFWS proposal allows imports of animal parts or live specimens of endangered animals into the United States, so long as the importer says that some portion of the purchase price went into conservation efforts in the country of origin. In theory, this would give an economic incentive to protection of these species, but the proposal contains no provisions that would allow the FWS to verify these claims.
- Defenders of Wildlife Calls Scheme “Fundamentally Incompatible” With Endangered Species Act
That’s right: kill ‘em to save ‘em.
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