Discussion - ivory ban

donnac2558

ilikewatch wrote: »

Do you think that farmers keep herds of full grown cows/sheep in their back gardens?

Well for a start:

Elephants are much larger than cows or sheep. So a farm won't do, they roam large areas. So you want the said farmers to buy up large game reserves to keep them on. Or perhaps chain them up in small areas. Cruel

Elephants don't get their tusks until they are full grown so many years. So you want to keep on a reserve very large animals for years before getting the tusks. What just going to shoot them no longer serve a purpose? They don't grow back! Tusks that is.

Rhinos do not have ivory compared hair actually, their horns are used by the morons who think it will turn them into sex gods.

I am still thinking of a word begins with M and ends with N

soolin

Just to point out that elephants need their horns, they are not merely decorative. I cannot imagine an industry where you breed elephants at vast cost , cut part of their tusks of (can't cut too much of as there is a risk to the elephant), and then have to provide safety and food etc for them as they live out their natural age. The costs of providing a safe environment for a natural span of life that can reach 70 years, all for a small piece of ivory would seem an expensive way to protect them. Their home would need to be patrolled by armies of people to keep out predators (no tusks- no protection).

I suspect any such farming arrangement would soon have corners cut and just encourage poaching.

incidentally, re the rhino farming this is quite interesting:

http://www.ifaw.org/united-kingdom/news/why-some-creative-poaching-solutions-fail

Red*Dragonfly

the poachers would just brake into the elephant farm.

I sometimes think that the real problem is poverty. it's this that leads people to do desperate things to survive, it's the same as any gang related organised crime. tackle the poverty, less people would be willing to kill the elephants.

I know it's probably more complex than this, but I just think the problem is bigger than it first seems.