Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Law of Intended Consequences

Hunting is not euvoluntary (for the animals, anyway).

And polices have consequences. Add a non-native, farmed species to the endangered species act, watch as the incentive to keep herds around dwindles. If this effect is strong enough, the critter might well actually go true-blue extinct.

It should be enough to give conservationists pause, right?

"Feral does not mince her words. She would rather see the three species become extinct in Texas than see a single animal hunted in what she says are "canned hunts." She calls the ranchers "pimps." She says they are more interested in putting a head on the wall than in conserving the species."

ATSRTWT

Yikes! With friends like these, amirite?

h/t Cracked.com

1 comment:

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Do you have suggestions on where we could find more examples of this phenomenon?