harrydre wrote:aemathenge wrote:nakujua wrote:they should just allow people to breed and sell the ivory on their elephants - if quails are anything to go by, we will be having an abundance of elephants and rhinos, in fact ivory prices will go so low that poaching will be rendered useless.
Now that is somebody really thinking outside his hut.
Thank you.
He is not. it takes an yr and a half for a Rhino to give birth and another 35/40 yrs to mature. an elephant is double those statistics. You definitely cant compare that with Quails!!
What is the other option of getting ivory from elephants because people want ivory. Wait for them to die of old age?
Poaching just like drugs will never end because as long as there is a market, the demand will always be there to be satified.
The columbian govert from what I was told,decided to weed out traffickers by planting acres of opium and selling at a low market price!
The traffickers profits dwindled because the commodity wasn't as lucrative.
It's difficult for a criminal to compete for illegal market with the goverment.
Now,I don't have a conclusion to the above cz it seems crazy what I am about to suggest.