wild release doesn't work?

[lday at iquest.net]

>Sorry to be long-winded about this, but in short, it is a *much* more
>economical approach to preserve habitat and existing populations.  All
>re-introductions do at the moment is give an "out" to developers 

(Doesn't this drive you NUTS!?  It does me.)

>and
>governments who are ignorant of the realites.  They should always be
>at the back of the list of "things to do" rather than a legimate
>option.

I agree totally.  I think the commercial rearers are blinded by their
own biases.   Same thing is happening in the world of parrots, where
loads of people breed and raise them but no re-intro attempts have
ever worked, yet people claim they are contributing to preservation
of the spp.  ARGH!

Not to mention all the OTHER species that got bulldozed when the area
was developed.....  sigh.

Thanks for a good post.


Liz Day
LDAY at iquest.net 
Indianapolis, Indiana, central USA - 40 N latitude, zone 5.

http://www.iquest.net/~lday