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BlueRidge wrote:
Absolutely beautiful. It must be an amazing experience to see them in the wild. I hope we can save them and increase their numbers in natural habitats rather than zoos.
The zoos (some of them do play a major conservation role) help in some cases. However, it's the human beliefs that are mainly to blame. We are procuring the cubs as pets and once they grow up abandon them. Some believe the bone wine is the real elixir - alas!
I was thinking about this last week. If you think, the New World (Western Hemisphere) animals are relatively immune to the demands of the medicinal value proposition, where as the Old world animals are more susceptible. Think about the poor little pangolin. Now they are farming lions in africa to meet the demands of Big Cat paws for medicinal uses :-(
Thanks a lot this kindles the conservationist in me.
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