Endangered Species

There has been a lot of talk in the papers and on the radio about the saving of species, like lions and tigers, by moving some of them to North America.

It's been done before.

When the white rhino was in serious danger from poachers in the 1960s, they decided to move half of the world’s population to somewhere safe. They chose Whipsnade in Bedfordshire.

The outcome many years later is that the white rhino is now much less endangered and has been returned to the wilds of southern Africa.

So moving species does save them!

But you have to ask hard questions.

As an aside I once met, a very elderly ex-big game hunter who told me, that the camera is the modern equivalent of the gun and the world should be a better place for it.