Here we go again

It's amazing to see how many people think 'leaving them alone' will be the best way to preserve elephants, al while claiming that it is 'humans' that have screwed it all up.

Leaving them alone means that there is less food for the locals. Not too big of a deal, maybe them dying off will help reduce the human population. Leaving the elephants alone means less money for the organizations that help preserve them. Less protectors yields more poachers, which yields mass population reductions, which gives us endangered species...again. Ok, so assuming that poachers leave them alone (horrible assumption by the way), the elephants would overpopulate their area, deplete their resources, and result in malnourished elephants that cannot defend themselves from predators, thus heavily impacting the population.

See, leaving them alone isn't a solution, but another problem. Yes, humans have greatly impacted animals all across this world. Setting up programs that help sustain populations (or even grow them) should be supported. If you want to remove trophy hunting from Africa, then come up with a program that brings in the necessary money to support a quality wildlife management program.

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