Breeding unusually coloured animals condemned by wildlife experts
27th June 2011
Read it.
And, if we listened to such experts, progress would never happen.
They claim the practice simply propagates artificial colourings which in the wild, could leave the animals vulnerable to the harsh climate and predators and struggling to hunt.
Yeah, like there’s a lot of wild left in South Africa. Let’s get real.
He said there was no conservation benefit to breeding purely white lions and the money would be better spent protecting natural lions.
Dude, they aren’t doing it for ‘conservation benefit’. They’re doing it because white lions are fargin cool. You want to spend somebody’s money on protecting natural lions, go spend your own.
“What visitors to South Africa should ask themselves is do they want a genuine experience of seeing an African lion, or do they want to see an inbred, domestic one?”
Yeah, do you want to see the same lion you could see in the local zoo, or do you want to see a creature out of legend? The question answers itself.
He now wants the South African government to invest more in monitoring the growth in “colour morph” populations and establishing their chances of surviving in the wild.
Aha, it’s not his own money he wants to spend, but that of the taxpayers. Why am I not surprised….