125,000 unknown gorillas "discovered" in Congo

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=125%2C000%20gorillas%20Congo

The main reason I'm posting this news is to get the jump on
anthropocentric types who will cite it as "evidence" that man-made
threats to wildlife are overstated.

Read the above stories before jumping to any conclusions. The details
of this previously unknown (estimated) population don't bode much
better for the gorillas' future than was earlier predicted. More time
has just been bought. Africa is a ruthless place for any primate,
including humans deemed undesirable by neighbors. Most of the world's
non-game, non-commercial species remain under the Sword of Damocles
until mindless human population growth ends.

This reveals the true situation for primates around the globe:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=%2Bprimates+%2Bthreatened+%2Bextinction

But watch what happens when talk of "125,000 extra gorillas" hits the
AM talk show circuit. I can see Limbaugh's beady eyes narrowing as he
cherry-picks lines from the study done by the Wildlife Conservation
Society and Congo-Brazzaville govt. People who could care less about
the viability of non-game species will spin it to make human
encroachment seem trivial.

It's the same mentality that says man-made global warming (AGW) can't
be real because it was cold in Jethroville this week. These scientific
illiterates have the attention spans of grade-schoolers, and roughly
the same critical thinking skills. Many are also Creationists who see
extinctions as part of a master plan for total human dominion over
nature (Genesis 1:28). If they'd just admit they don't care whether
these animals live or die, a lot of debating time would be saved. The
sport-shot exploding guts of U.S. coyotes and prairie dogs are a
testament to their respect.

People forget that modern game management is still in its infancy
compared to historical pillaging. It only came about because so many
animal numbers were plummeting due to uncontrolled greed. But those
were game species that created vested interests. Altruistic or
ecological conservation is a whole other animal; pardon the pun. Many
"sportsmen" are only associated with that by habitat coincidence.

E.A.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/

Economic growth is the endless replacement of nature with people.
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