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originally posted by: eeyipes
Well I've lived in the area for almost 5 years and have never heard of this ... I'd love to go but $50 per person seems a bit steep
originally posted by: eeyipes
Well I've lived in the area for almost 5 years and have never heard of this ... I'd love to go but $50 per person seems a bit steep
originally posted by: pheonix358
originally posted by: eeyipes
Well I've lived in the area for almost 5 years and have never heard of this ... I'd love to go but $50 per person seems a bit steep
Why not consider it as a donation to help preserve the animals. They too need to eat and I would hate the butcher's bill when it comes in. Is it too steep now?
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originally posted by: DeepThoughtCriminal
Soon enough tigers and lions will be extinct in the wild. One thing I've noticed that very few people are even aware of the Asian lion, which once roamed all throughout India and the Middle East, but now exists only as a single population in India. Most people think lions only come from Africa.
Keeping wildlife reserves like this one are the only hope for the continued survival of some species. Most endangered animals, however, simply die out, and were never even heard of by most people in the first place. We all know about lions and tigers, but how many people know of a gharial, a tamarin, a wrasse, a tenrec?
And these conservation efforts, how much funding will they get when there are wars to fight, technology to be improved, wealth to claim? This is why these places are essentially zoos with larger confines, they rely on the money they receive from the public who pays to see these animals. And this is little enough - they must keep their prices as low as they can, or a competitor will come along and send them into oblivion, or people's interest will wane - after all, we all want to get things cheaply. And who would pay money to see a small and unremarkable creature that looks like a funny looking shrew? People want big, exciting, fierce animals. And thus we decide which animals live or die.
It all comes down to money. My field is zoology - and I've come to know how little most people care. What's the life of an animal compared to a shiny new iphone? It's sad, but our wildlife is doomed.