From reading wikipedia, it sounds like it depends a lot on the area in which the elephants live. In some areas, they do suffer from poaching, while in others, there are too many of them.
In an ideal world, we would relocate rather than cull, but the reality is that relocation is difficult and expensive. Even relocating a single elephant is not an easy task - you need to tranquilize him, move him, and then release him, keeping alive in the process. Its not that easy. Remember, most African countries do not have sufficient money for even basic education - then you ask them to spend money they dont have on preserving creatures that they do not see the value of. I think all wildlife needs to be preserved, but can you understand how someone who does not have the money to eat 3 meals a day could feel differently? Moving that one elephant would probably cost as much as it would take to feed a man for a few months.
Westerners are far from immune from such idiocy - the difference is that the remedies we take do not cause extinction of worldlife. Things like, believing in homeopathy, or that vaccines cause autism, or psychics, or that some celebrities can talk to the dead. Complete rubbish, and yet millions of westerners believe it.
Well of course I would be out of place telling of some problems the africans are facing because I wouldent know, I have neither gone there or studyed in detail of quality and quanity of some of the poverty that is situated there...but I can tell you regardless, if it is so that bad, poverty is still a man made fictional implimation, I my self have some knowledge of agriculture and know that even my modern people cannot be self sustaining, but it is only because we have been striped by force of our own ways.
Belive me Hawaiians of formal years before the 17th century was possibly the most self sustaining people on the planet, sort of like Indians we had a dilema and alot of our culture was diminshed and halted birthing into the world of western european poverty/currentcy...all in all thats all it is, fictional; man made ideas.
In the modern world, yes; money can change lives indifinitely, but thats only because the socioty s following under those basics of that type of rules.
Belive me, I went to school for agriculture starting off just on land scaping, and in this place and time, I can bank hundreds of thousands of dollars with just the resources of a truck and determination on the basics of what I know; which is self sustaining...sadly the socioty cant even get a hold of the basics and rely on the goverment for everything, because there propaganda (feeling like they own you) wants it that way.
But anyways, as that is another story all in its self, money is non essential, the will power and under standing of the situation is more important; to what I learned (Little of africa) is that they could be as well the wealthiest countrys in world as is, they hold some of the most mineral deposits such as gold, diamonds and other land/A'ina forms of money than any other place in the world.
But I do understand where you are coming from, that it could when specified as almost impossible and weighing/juggling daily life can be very difficult to determine if narrowed down, but when you flip that scenario of narrowing up/out, it can be as easy as pie...hence the saying,
Work is hard in the modern world, and any way you cut it, work is always work, so if you can find something that you truely enjoy in life; you will never work again a day in your life.
And education wise, its easy to understand if alot of positive re-enforcement is involved instead of negative, hence the other saying...
A un-educated man on the brink of death, no home, no job; no nothing, is starving and daily he is asking people for food....if you give that man a fish to eat for the night he will tommorow go hungry still, if you
Teach that man to fish, he wont ever go hungry ever again.
In other words the positive things the human can be empowered with, can beautify and benifit all of life a million times over, but there are some assholes who think they are entitled to everything beliving a invisible man as there primary source.
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It seems I was way off on the numbers, (Crappy memory) but it seems there are alot more than I opinionated, so theres what around 600,000, but still from there formal numbers of 3-5 million in just less than a 100 years...dude, thats genocide...I wish humans was wiped out like that, that way the earth can replenish her self of all the animals we made extinct.
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