Kiera Butler Quotes
Relocating animals would be a major departure from the last half-century of conservation practice in the U. S.
New thinking regarding some endangered species calls for relocating the surviving members of the specie to a location more hospitable to survival of the species and where they animals will come into less conflict with man and development.
Kiera Butler, Writer & Editor, Environmental Journalist “The Destination of Species”, Mother Jones, January / February 2012
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In 2006 at the age of 44 he was killed while televising and underwater scene with stingrays who are not very dangerous usually. Most people recover from a stingray barb even though it has a mild toxin. However in a very rare occurrence, he was stung right in the heart.
Opposing hunting restrictions to protect endangered species, federal control of lands and welfare:
Foreign species escape, multiply, and take over a habitat, destroying the natural species or effecting the plant life usually negatively.
By 2009 there were over 150,000 Burmese pythons in Florida. A few had escaped and they have multiplied in the climate of Southern Florida.
His lesson was that in order to have a society that will protect animals, we must first enable citizens to know about the animals and then to love the animals.
Many of the wildlife poachers are armed with heavy weapons and modern qeopositioning equipment. The think nothing of killing Wildlife Rangers who try to stop them from killing elephants and rhinos for their tests and horns which are highly prized in Asia. Much of the funding to protect the wildlife of Africa comes from United State Non Profit Organizations for whom spending resources to train Wildlife Rangers to use heavy weapons is not very comfortable. But Kalron and others argue that if the local authorities cannot confront the poachers, there is no practical way to preserve the wildlife.
There are a few conflicts between the legislation to protect the border by using vehicles and building facilities and protecting the endangered species that might be in the area. These were worked out by allowing the Border Patrol, if they thought there was a serious boarder problem, to make the decision of how to proceed but in the general cases to balance off the costs and benefits to border guarding and the endangered species and wilderness. Chaffetz was a rabid anti environment advocate who opposes almost all accommodations for endangered speices. Such extreme statements as these, produces an opposite extreme reaction on the part of some environmentalists who will make no compromise even if benign, as they believe that CHaffetz and the few others who think like he, will then gut the entire legislation as they are not acting in good faith. The result is a polarization in which the extreme’s fight it out and the reasonable middle ground is ignored.
