Giving Americans access to [kill, capture and import] 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.
Update: I should mention that there's a new community which will be covering some of the political stuff that tends to catch my eye... it's called
globaldefence and covers any kind of dubious political interactions between countries, as well as things that affect the whole planet.
Update: I should mention that there's a new community which will be covering some of the political stuff that tends to catch my eye... it's called
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Date: 2003-10-16 05:53 am (UTC)