--- In R_H_I_N_O_S@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Freze" <amtxent@e...>
wrote:
Hi Syed,

Pease do not lose heart because of the misinformation and
disinformation
that is being thrown at you. Do you seriously think that those
poachers who
kill and destroy a White Rhinoceros and leave that valuable protein
rich
meat behind to rot and feed Hyenas and Jackals, that could feed a
family
for a few months if preserved as the ancients did, are killing and
dehorning a White Rhinoceros because those poachers are starving? We
are
not stupid.
> [Original Message]
> From: Syed. S. Ahmed <akif1999@y...>
> To: <R_H_I_N_O_S@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: 8/29/2004 10:57:49 AM
> Subject: [R_H_I_N_O_S] Re: SHOOT TO KILL ORDER FOR POACHERS
>
> Sayed,
> I grew up in Africa and watched the meat market shift from
> bushmeat to beef, and then the renewed interest in less expensive
> bushmeat for the working poor. I have also used photography to
> document poachers at work inside national parks--yes, I accompanied
> the "poachers" to document their illegal activities from their
> perspective. Almost all "poachers" are poor peasants with barefoot
> children and wives and parents and grandparents who cannot afford
> very basic medications. Almost all "poachers" would much prefer to
> have a "real job" and be able to make at least U.S. $30 a month.
> Almost all "poachers" have very little other income opportunities
> available to them. Before you promote a "kill the poor peasant
> father who has very VERY few other choices" perhaps you should "fix
> the country" and offer that poor man you're about to kill another
way
> to make a living ! Sorry, I watched Cameroon's wildlife decimated
by
> people eating it--but I never ever ever considered killing a human
> to "save" an animal. My childhood siblings and best friends are
> eeking out an existence as best they can in Africa today--they
don't
> need any foreigners shooting them for trying to survive. Save the
> people and you might save the wildlife--try to save the animals
> without respecting or understanding the people and you will loose
it
> all. Look at Haiti and Madagascar if you want examples of human
> societies in ultimate despair--AFTER the wildlife was destroyed.
Oil
> money is committing genocide in Sudan and refugees and soldiers are
> wiping out all wildlife on the previously "virgin" Chad/Sudan/CAR
> border. Stop the Oil greed & give normal lives to the humans & you
> might save the animals. Enter an oil, diamonds, or coltan
(remember
> your cell phone and your x-box use coltan from Zaire) war zone to
> shoot the "poachers" and you compound ALL misery and will not save
> the animals--or the people. I do not do not do not ever support
> ANY "kill humans to save animals" philosophies. Save the people
and
> you might save the wildlife. The children of Africa including the
> children of "poachers" will inherit all of Africa. My photos are
> posted at www.halnoss.com and I have spent time with "poachers" and
> with their families and have photographed their children before
they
> died for lack of medication. I also know game guards, game guards
> turned poachers, soldiers, and normal everyday-people wishing they
> had bullets to hunt so as to feed their families. Foreigners will
> not save Africa's wildlife, African's will save Africa's wildlife.
> But first, Africans need to save themselves (despite oil, diamonds,
> gold, and coltan) --and then, once they can all survive, Africa's
> humans will do what they can to save their wildlife. Do not ever
> ever ever exchange a human life for a wild animal life. Instead,
> save the human and then help the human save the animal.
> Best wishes to you in Africa, and may Africa never let you forget
> what you do there.
> Sincerely,
> Hal Noss
> Photographer
>
> --- In R_H_I_N_O_S@yahoogroups.com, "Syed. S. Ahmed"
<akif1999@y...>
> wrote:
> > I am working these days to impose shoot to kill order for
poachers
> at
> > Garamba National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo.May God will
> > help me in my work&the Congolese government will impose this
order.
>
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