or her face through the openings in her stall room. She plays with toys, and sometimes stands with one foot on a stool to see over a wall into another room.
A wonderous creature.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For anyone interested in an article about a real CONSERVATIVE who is interested in protection of animals, here's one about George H. W. Bush's speechwriter, who stands at odds with his boss, who, like Cheney, loves nothing better than slaughtering as many trophy animals as possible.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50367-2004May23.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I missed this when it came out originally. Do you think they tried to cover it up?
U.S. May Expand Access To Endangered Species
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 11, 2003; Page A01
The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries.
Giving Americans access to endangered animals, officials said, would feed the gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that would allow poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their habitat.
This and other proposals that pursue conservation through trade would, for example, open the door for American trophy hunters to kill the endangered straight-horned markhor in Pakistan; license the pet industry to import the blue fronted Amazon parrot from Argentina; permit the capture of endangered Asian elephants for U.S. circuses and zoos; and partially resume the trade in African ivory. No U.S. endangered species would be affected.
Conservationists think it's a bad idea. "It's a very dangerous precedent to decide that wildlife exploitation is in the best interest of wildlife," said Adam Roberts, a senior research associate at the nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute, an advocacy group for endangered species.
(snip/...)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10660-2003Oct10?language=printer
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(324 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
