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[Shardul]

(09-28-2015, 10:07 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(09-27-2015, 10:13 PM)Shardul Wrote:

(09-26-2015, 02:25 PM)sanjay Wrote: Some of video of Dr. Ullas Karanth

TFS, @sanjay

Important to note that Dr. Karanth says that poaching (of tigers and their prey) is a bigger threat than habitat destruction. And I completely agree with him.

They wont have prey or predator to poach if habitat is gone.
They wont have oxygen to breath, ozone layer to protect them, sea ice will melt away and cover our cities.
India has had the worst heat wave in their recent history, rains come later and later, california hasn't seen a heat wave like this, ever, droughts, etc.

Poaching is bad and a threat, but compared to species as a whole, poaching is a minor threat compared to deforestation.
Put value in the forest and that in turn puts value in its species who live their.
Destroy "it", the species are part of "it" so you in turn, destroy all.

And if hunting isn't controlled, you'll have empty habitat. I don't have to look too far.  What do the extinct Caspian & Java tiger, the asian lion outside of Gir, the tasmanian tiger, the northern white rhino and numerous other extinct species tell us? Hunting has killed off species in history and will continue to kill long before the sea level rises. Hunting does in a few decades what climate change does over thousands of years.


Regarding climate, India always was prone to heat waves and droughts. This year, it didn't rain a lot. Just last year & before that, it rained plenty. The monsoon still arrives the same time of the year. It is cyclical, some years there's lot of rain, others not so much. Same with heat. It's not like it is getting progressively worse, as is being implied.

Anyway, let us agree to disagree. We aren't going to change each other's opinion on this matter. Reply