WTF?

[denny]

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.

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Re: Erk

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Hrm. On further inspection (i.e. googling), it seems that they have spelt it correctly in the past, but are now moving toward American spellings as their cultures get whitewashed... particularly Canada, for obvious reasons of geographical proximity.

Re: Erk

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

presumably with the exception of the French Canadians, who would call it Defence Mondial?