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The numbers are staggering! They are widely varied in the estimates, though. Nonetheless, staggering. The link you provided says approximately 35,000 killed annually, while the link at the bottom of that page

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/36/13117

Full text here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/36/13117.full

says about 40,000 and the news report I heard on TV a couple of days ago said about 29 a day (10,585 annually). Way more than I ever imagined in any case!

Joe

Blck-shouldered Kite wrote:http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28842965

And yet.........


http://www.bulletsafaris.com/elephant-hunting.html


http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/wild-fr ... y-hunting/



Not to pick on just hunters .....


If we don't change the handwriting is on the wall.....

Paul