[Newsbot]

Title: Gorilla shot dead to save toddler who fell into zoo enclosure
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2016-05-29 10:29:38

[andyt]

What a shame. Toddlers should not be able to fall into animal enclosures. What if there were lions or such in there.

[N_Fiddledog]

Hard to say. Why don't you hop on the bus out to the Aldergrove game farm, jump the fence at the Big Cats enclosure and tell us how it works out for you.

[ShepherdsDog]

You want the cats to develop sepsis? People care about those big cats.

[N_Fiddledog]

There's video now.

[Freakinoldguy]

They should have shot the parent and let the gorilla raise the kid. Much better parenting skills.

[DrCaleb]

Yet another reason to get rid of zoos in favour of wildlife sanctuaries.

[ShepherdsDog]

Unfortunately the gorillas will continue to decline as they and their habitats are destroyed in Africa by farmers and poachers. Governments have to be a little more proactive and aggressive in protecting both.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Unfortunately the gorillas will continue to decline as they and their habitats are destroyed in Africa by farmers and poachers. Governments have to be a little more proactive and aggressive in protecting both.

The DR Congo has a parks division that is armed and tasked with protecting mountain gorillas. But very much underfunded.

[Lemmy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Unfortunately the gorillas will continue to decline as they and their habitats are destroyed in Africa by farmers and poachers. Governments have to be a little more proactive and aggressive in protecting both.

Why are there so few whales and so many chickens? Get McDonalds to put gorilla on the menu and their numbers will flourish. If you want to save a species, start eating it. Give it an economic reason to exist.

[andyt]

Kinda defeats the whole point of keeping wild species alive tho. The world as just one big farm.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

If you want to save a species, start eating it

They do eat them in Rwanda and Burundi.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

$1:

If you want to save a species, start eating it

They do eat them in Rwanda and Burundi.

Only because they haven't discovered chickens.

[ShepherdsDog]

mmm...tastes like gorilla.

[Lemmy]

andyt andyt:

Kinda defeats the whole point of keeping wild species alive tho. The world as just one big farm.

You care if the wild species survives?