NEWS FLASH
The NBCs NRA sponsored Sports Show "Under Wild Skies" has been canceled. thanks to the Americans that are tired of the Anthony Makis of the world
I am not an expert on African wildlife only from my travels in Eastern Africa and my research on the animals I sculpt. My first bronze was an African Elephant that I saw in an African hunting brochure for big game hunters.
I started to learn of the African Elephant when I read "The Roots of Heaven" in the 1960s about Ivory Hunters after the Second WW and the real beginning of the great extermination of Africa. In my process I learned about elephants their behavior, their uncanny insights, their memories, their compassions for each other, other creatures and man.
I had a friend tell me how elephants could be saved by killing them for money or basically by harvesting them, he also told me about old elephants dying of starvation because their teeth were so warn down that they could no longer eat, that hunting them and their tusks would improve the environment and that hunters have done more for conservation than tree huggers ever have in Africa. Soooooo I googled "Tourists vs. Hunters in Africa and came up with astoundingly high figures for tourist over hunting.
I also found a web on lies perpetrated by the African (and also American) hunting groups about hunting is good for the environment.
At the death of a man that re-habilitated elephants after poaching traumas. The elephants came from three days away to stand at his home they had never been to before. Standing in what seemed to be respect they waited for several days then suddenly departed as silent as they had arrived. I have read about proof of superior intelligence of elephants and their extraordinary perception of being.
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