I wonder what type of a dumbass it takes to come up with this idea. Basically, some people are proposing bringing endangered large game from Africa, like lions & elephants, and letting them loose in the American midwest. Nice to see we've learned our lessons about invasive species. Let's not try to solve the root of the problem - habitat loss in Africa. Instead, let's see what else we can fuck up here in the Americas.
Posted by Fatboy at August 24, 2005 09:47 AMWhy don't they take all the money they would spend on this and buy up some land in Africa for a giant nature preserve.
Posted by: John at August 24, 2005 09:54 AMYeah, their priorities are a little off.
Anywho, speaking of megafauna (which I always thought meant big plants until I heard about this story), we should bring back saber-tooth tigers and woolly mammoths. It hasn't been that long since their extinctions, so the plains of North America can still handle them. We probably need get a few of those buffalo back onto the plains so the tigers have something to eat though.
Posted by: Rick at August 24, 2005 11:41 AM"which I always thought meant big plants until I heard about this story"
For how long have you been running the word megafauna around your head? God, the nerd level here just keeps rocketing off into the stratosphere...which, I'm sure, will have one of you bring up the "xenosphere" or whatever layer of the atmosphere is actually highest and therefore, inside my metaphor, the nerdiest. Nerds.
Posted by: Chris at August 24, 2005 03:56 PMI almost said "megafauna" in my original post, but thought it sounded too nerdy, so I dumbed it down to "large game."
Hopefully, anybody in charge of money to spend in these fields will find better ways to spend it, like education, solving overpopulation problems, etc., which all lead to the loss of habitat.
Posted by: Fatboy at August 24, 2005 04:33 PM