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January 12, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Jenny L
On Friday, January 9th, I took a stroll with a friend to the Mall to the WWII memorial. Standing at the memorial, in one direction you can see the Washington monument. Looking in the other direction is the Lincoln memorial and more port-a-potties than I have ever seen assembled in one place in my life.
January 12, 2009 at 3:03 pm
nina robinson
hi jenny – thanks for your comment – if you want to send in some photos of what you describe – please upload and add to our flickr group – http://www.flickr.com/groups/bbcyourstory/ – Nina x
April 24, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Don Mathusz
Overweight: The problems core is the time-culture situation. In Vietnam people take 2 hours for a meal and eat slowly and it becomes a family meetings/business meetings.
In the US, there is a time compression problem and everyone is in a rush to satisfy economic culture. Fast food is available everywhere to satisfy this need.
This is a social-economics problem driven by time allocation in a profit driven environment.
Don Mathusz
May 9, 2009 at 10:46 am
Marius Bezuidenhout
South Africam Government-sanctioned endangered white rhino hunt
State sanctions rhino hunt on Eastern Cape reserve in South Africa
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2009/05/09
THREE white rhino have been shot in a State park on the Wild Coast – and three more are set to die as part of a legal but highly controversial government-sanctioned hunt.
Outrage and condemnation have followed a decision by the Eastern Cape Parks Board (ECPB) to hunt six white rhino in the Dwesa Nature Reserve because the animals are considered alien species.
Although white rhino are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the hunt was authorised by the parks board and started on April 28.
The move has angered community members and conservationists who argued for the animals’ relocation.
Jim Feely, a nature conservationist from Maclear, was appalled by the decision and said that since about 1893, no hunting was ever legally authorised at the Dwesa reserve. It is “totally repugnant”, he said.
But Dr Dave Balfour, head of scientific services at the parks board, said hunting the rhino was a last resort after capturing the animals had been discounted because of their unusual behaviour and the difficult terrain.
“Typically, white rhino are grazers and can be found out in the grassy slopes much of the time,” he said. “In Dwesa, however … the rhino spend considerably more time in the forest than is normal and this would make capture operations very difficult.”
Conservationist Dr Ian Player said he would have preferred for them to be relocated because “while it’s right what they say about it being difficult to capture them, it’s not impossible.”
Balfour said three rhino had been shot to date, but the Saturday Dispatch learnt that one animal had only been wounded and has since eluded the hunters.
Parks board chairman Andrew Muir said the reserve has been closed and teams were on the ground tracking the animal.
Muir said the rhino, of which there are thought to be 10 in total, were originally introduced to the area some 25 years ago.
“We can’t put black rhino, which are indigenous to the area, into the park because it’s too small and the black and white rhino will fight,” he said.
Muir said claims that the decision to allow hunting was for financial reasons were unfounded. T he amount generated was “comparable to what we would have been able to sell them for.”
A 2008/2009 annual report of the parks board shows that the Dwesa rhino were initially earmarked for sale.
James Williamson, of Kubusie Safaris in Stutterheim, said hunters could pay between R200000 and R580000 to shoot a rhino, depending on the size of the horn.
The Dispatch established that the outfitter handling the hunt is Willem Botha the owner and operator of African Scent Safaris. Botha declined to comment. – By ANDREW STONE and ASA SOKOPO
And my comment on this is. This is completely outrages; every last effort should have been made to relocate the animals. I am sure that had they given the other conservationist a chance they would have been able to find a reserve that would have gladly put a team together to capture the Rhinos. Have any of the other reserves been contacted? I don’t think so because the ECPB probably received a donation “Bribe” to hunt the White Rhino. I cannot understand that if an animal is on the endangered list that without a court order a single person could authorize such a destructive act. There must be someone that can stop this, if someone has the authority to put animals on the endangered list, they probably are not aware of the atrocity that is happening. This needs to be distributed to all conservationist and a task team put together to stop this. Please someone, who can we talk to? Posted by Marius Bezuidenhout East London South Africa
May 19, 2009 at 3:19 am
Mitch R.M.
Currently, there are provincial elections going on in the Dominion of Canada’s Province of Nova Scotia. It is expected that history will be made with the election of the first socialist government in the province, which was the first to gain responsible government in all the (former) British Empire. The elections are on 9 June 2009. It may be of interest to some to see the outcome of these elections to the oldest responsible government.