Slaughter of wildlife
I refer to the Travel supplement particularly to the feature regarding the hunting of wildlife in South Africa (The Sunday Times, December 9).
It stated that 32,000 animals were shot in one year by hunters coming mainly from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the US. I am not in favour of local hunters shooting birds but if some person particularly from the mentioned countries suggests that the Maltese are crazy bird killers, I would call them bigots.
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John Neville Ebejer
Dec 17th 2012, 13:56
European colonisers farmed animals have stressed lands resulting in imbalance of wild species. Have displaced original tribal communities which lived in a harmonious manner on the natural resources, reducing these to slave status dependency.
Now they dare try to define this as stock managment and helpingthe economy!
Europeans have no moral stance to speak of conservation.
Christopher Gaynor
Dec 16th 2012, 20:56
It's not slaughter, it's stock management to maintain a healthy balance of each species' population - too many predators impacts on the quarry species; a surplus of herbivores stresses the land and leads to starvation of some of them. Allowing foreign hunters to cull the old and weak ensures a balance is maintained, providing employment and bringing in money at the same time.
Lesley Kreupl
Dec 16th 2012, 21:29
well put. The fees paid by foreign hunters to shoot game which would probably have to be culled anyway, enable many of the parks and game farms to survive and, most important, enable them to pay rangers to prevent poachers from decimating protected species such as elephant and rhino. This is simply not comparable to the indiscriminate massacre of birds that takes place here.
Pippo de Marco
Dec 17th 2012, 08:05
There are too many humans devouring the worlds depleted resources. Perhaps you think they should be 'stock managed' too ?
Shall we start with the old and the weak ?
M. Cardona
Dec 17th 2012, 14:40
@ Lesley Kreupl,
local hunting has consistently proved to be one of the most effective incentives for the conservation and regeneration of habitats.
Maria Williams
Dec 16th 2012, 19:03
The result is the same,an animal dies whether it is a Maltese,a Scandinavian or an American behind the gun, ALL are to be condemned..In the same way you are against local hunting and presumably also against killing in Africa, many of these people's compatriots are also against hunting and you cannot therefore stop them from condemning killing of birds in Malta.I'd call them consistent not 'bigots'
Maria Williams
Dec 16th 2012, 19:02
The result is the same,an animal dies whether it is a Maltese,a Scandinavian or an American behind the gun, ALL are to be condemned..In the same way you are against local hunting and presumably also against killing in Africa, many of these people's compatriots are also against hunting and you cannot therefore stop them from condemning killing of birds in Malta.I'd call them consistent not 'bigots'
Brian Simmons
Dec 16th 2012, 14:00
The reason they mostly only shoot birds in Malta is because that's all that is left and God restocks those in a system called migration.
Sylvana Zarb Darmanin
Dec 16th 2012, 13:07
Very well said, Mr Hadrian Cassar Torretggiani.
C Cassar, what sort of poor reasoning is this? Amongst the 32,000 animals killed, there are migrating birds! Since when are you reasoning that shooting these makes no difference in the birds' population?! When are we, readers, expected to read some sense in your comments, Sir / Madam?!!!
Chris Gatt
Dec 16th 2012, 12:34
In which case you really don't know what the word bigot means. i think the word you are looking for is hypocrite. Now what is the word we use for people who use the wrong words?
M. Cardona
Dec 16th 2012, 19:43
Bigot
a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
I think that Mr Cassar Torregiani used the correct term and you simply proved him correct :-)
C Cassar
Dec 16th 2012, 10:29
There is a huge difference between S Africa and Malta. 32000 animals is a drop in a very large ocean in that country. There are plenty of isolated areas where animals are free from human interference. This is not the case in Malta. Hunting is sustainable in S Africa but certainly not in a small overcrowded country like Malta.
M. Cardona
Dec 16th 2012, 13:41
C Cassar,
how many game parks have you visited in Africa?
what scientific studies sustain your argument re- big game hunting?
I completely agree with big game hunting practices sustainably as an effective means to nature conservation, fauna and habitats.
In case size does matter.....................
Mr Anthony Formosa
Dec 16th 2012, 15:12
Mr Cassar, the birds we shoot are from Africa and Europe so it makes a fraction of drop in a very large ocean. Try to learn something before you comment.
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