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The Serengeti's New Paramilitary
Smuggled African Ivory in freight container (AP Photo) Email to friend
One of the pioneer environmentalists John Muir, put it this way, "In a war between humans and animals, I'd take the side of the bears." Well, it's happening. Not here, but a group of American conservationists says it is do or die time in the African wilderness.
In the vast and barely governed Central African Republic, poachers have killed an estimated 95-percent of the wildlife in search of ivory and bush meat, setting fires, flushing out and massacring elephants, rhinos, monkeys and cats. The government is too poor or too disorganized to stop it, but it has given permission to privately funded eco-warriors to step in.
A western charity raising money, raising arms, and raising questions about the value of life, human and wild, poaching the poachers.
Tom Clynes, Contributing Editor to National Geographic's
Adventure magazine and author of the article, "They Shoot Poachers, Don't They?" in the October issue
Dr. Bruce Hayse, Founder of Africa Rainforest and River Conservation (ARRC) and family practitioner in Jackson, WY
Richard Carroll, PhD, Africa and Madagascar Expert for the World Wildlife Fund.
Tom Clynes, the poachers go in and if there isn't wildlife, they attack villages. listen
Bruce Hayse, it's fortunate that to find Dave. listen
