Once Giants
 Take
a good long look at this wee beastie on the left as its
kind may not be around much longer. Over
the past ten years the numbers of African forest elephants
have dropped by an astonishing 62 percent as a result of
the
illegal ivory trade. Even worse for the elephants is that
the fewer there
are of them the more valuable their ivory becomes, thus
an inevitable increase in poaching, the most vicious of
vicious circles. Researchers estimate that these creatures
may all be gone in less than ten years.
I'm not keen on the death penalty but it seems like a good
trade-off
to execute a few desperate or greedy poachers to save an
entire species. If the U.S. military needs a good place
to work off some tension by practicing their drone strikes,
this would be
the place.
=Lefty=
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