You might have seen this posted by a couple of folks over on the 'Fire...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?_r=0


Best article yet I've seen on native attitudes towards wildlife.

It is true everywhere that people are most in favor of conservation when the costs don't accrue to them personally.

I've met people who were losing their crops to elephants at the time. And personally seen the effects of crop failures (in that case drought), it ain't pretty.

Birdwatcher

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744