There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
04-13-2018, 07:12 AM( This post was last modified: 04-13-2018, 09:56 AM by Wolverine )
(04-10-2018, 07:26 PM)brotherbear Wrote:
(04-10-2018, 07:13 PM)Wolverine Wrote: Altogether with Barbary lion!
Brotherbear maybe you should write a letter to the Sultan of Morocco.
Thank you Wolverine, but he would probably come closer to listening to one of you guys with some college education. It would indeed be an interesting project though. I'd love to see it happen. As for the people of North Africa, the bears would very likely increase tourism, I would think.
Societies in the Middle East are quite conservative and not yet ready for big scale wildlife protection. According to Islam and other monoteistic religions the animals do not posess own "soul' as do humans, so wild animals don't have a real value for God Himself hence their protection is not first task for the state. In contrast with Muslim societies Hinduism and Buddism teach that animals posess own souls, hence they have Divine value and subsiquently wildlife protection in India should be appriori on much higher level than in Middle East. The problem of India was that so called "sacred animals" as caws, monkeys etc in the past were sometimes more valued and in higher esteem than people from lower castes, "untouchables", first European travelers in 18th and 19th centuries were surprised that in that country there were more hospitals for caws than hospitals for poor people...
In any way what I want to say is that in Morocco and Algeria possibility for reintroduction of large extint animals as lions and even Attlas brown bears is very very far down to the road. Currently nobody cares about wild animals in Middle East.
Replacing the Atlas Bear
