Overpopulation v. Willful Stupidity

[Jean-Michel MAES]

Mass hunting still exists.
 
In Rio San JUan, Nicaragua, there is a company that promotes duck =
hunting.
Rich people go there (mostly from US) and shoot ducks. 20 hunters can =
kill
up to 1,000 ducks in a week. They have no problems with CITES as they =
did
not export nothing. In this case the problem is not over population, =
just
crazy way of pleasure of some people.
 
That's not about collecting and nothing to see with butterflies, sorry. =
I
will not do it more.
 
Sincerely,
 
Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527
LEON
NICARAGUA
tel 505-3116586
jmmaes at ibw.com.ni
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www.insectariumvirtual.com/lasmariposasdenicaragua.htm
www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/JMaes.htm
www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/honduintro.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: <mbpi at juno.com>
To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:44 AM
Subject: Overpopulation v. Willful Stupidity
 
 
> Keeping things in context, since this IS "supposed" to be a
> butterfly-related listserv...
>
> In my humble opinion (which I'm sure will be shot full of holes by the
> rabid archivists with their stockpiled artillery of irrefutable
> literature), I don't believe that "overpopulation" is the REAL problem =
in
> the degredation of adequate habitat and the extirpation/extinction of =
the
> biodiversity of local and transient populations.  I believe it is the
> result of greed, ignorance, a lack of appreciation, poor planning, and =
a
> lack of foresight.
>
> Witness the Passenger Pigeon:  it was exterminated at a time when the =
US
> was barely populated and the numbers of Passenger Pigeons FAR exceeded
> the number of people on the continent!  The North American Bison =
almost
> met the same fate...for equally self-indulgent reasons...and by a
> relative "handful" of the population. ( And I won't even go into the
> Peregrine Falcon and the Bald Eagle, for fear of re-opening that can =
of
> worms!!!!)
>
> Flash forward to the late 20th century.  We've come a long way in
> "raising our consciousness," but we still adhere to our proscribed =
mantra
> of "self-indulgence..." even more so than in the past because we =
"know" a
> lot more and have easy access to that knowledge.  Except NOW, we use =
that
> knowledge to rationalize our way out of sticky situtations that we =
DON'T
> want to be "held accountable" for.
>
> No, I don't think "overpopulation" is the problem:  I think it is just =
as
> easy for one "collecter" to exterminate a local population, as it was =
for
> a small nation east of the Mississippi to eradicate the entire =
Passenger
> Pigeon population.  This is not a slam-damning soliloquy against
> collectors:  I believe there IS a place for RESPONSIBLE collecting for
> research...not for self-gratuitious greed.  I think capitalistic
> "developers" wreak far more havoc with the biodiversity of indemic
> populations than collectors:  and for every "new development" there is =
a
> city-scape or rural environment left a "ghost town" by the scramble to
> inhabit these newly invested domains.  That's where the "planners" =
SHOULD
> come into THEIR consciousness of rethinking these abandoned =
neighborhoods
> to INCREASE the biodiversity rather than maintain the sterilization =
that
> drove the dissatisfied tennants out to begin with...  Big cities (and =
big
> corporations) seem to have a vendetta for corraling people into
> hermetically sealed, inhumane environments.  It has nothing to do with
> "overpopulation," it is simply a lack of regard for anything living...
>
> I could go on and on (like so many others on this listserv), but I'm
> through.
>
> Go ahead:  throw your stones!!!!
>
> M.B. Prondzinski
> USA
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