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Brian Sweat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 11:32 PM
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Looking for Info on Bush's Big Game Hunter friends.
Right after Schleprock took office there were a group of people that wanted him to ease some restriction on hunting endangered big game in third world countries. I am looking for links to any articles from around that time. Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about?
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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 12:27 AM
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1. Google "lion-hunting,Bush",and "hunting endangered species,Bush"
Edited on Fri Oct-17-03 12:51 AM by Algorem
These mutants can't get enough killing as long as they're not in any danger.
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LunaC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 05:42 AM
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2. Here you go.....
Schwarzkopf and Bush Snr mobilise opposition as Botswana moves to save its big cats - April 27, 2001

The former American president, George Bush senior, and his old
Gulf War ally, General "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf, are
pleading with the government of Botswana to be allowed to revive
their old alliance, this time in pursuit of Africa's endangered big
cats.

Mr Bush is among prominent members of Safari Club
International (SCI) who have written to the Botswanan authorities
asking them to lift a ban slapped on trophy hunting of lions in
February.

Arizona-based SCI describes itself as the largest hunting
organisation in the world and people who do not like what it does
as "animal protection extremists".

Mr Bush's former vice-president, Dan Quayle, is also among the
signatories along with Gen Schwarzkopf. Both men went hunting
in Botswana last year, although it is not known if they bagged
lions on that occasion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,479311,00.html

And we'll soon see if they pushed this abomination through.......

"The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation
policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import
animals on the brink of extinction in other countries.

"Giving Americans access to endangered animals, officials said, would both feed the gigantic
U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that would allow
poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their habitats.

"This and other proposals that pursue conservation through trade would, for example, open
the door for American trophy hunters to kill the endangered straight-horned markhor in
Pakistan; license the pet industry to import the blue fronted Amazon parrot from Argentina;
permit the capture of endangered Asian elephants for U.S. circuses and zoos; and partially
resume the international trade in African ivory. No U.S. endangered species would be
affected.

"Conservation groups counter that killing or capturing even a few animals is hardly the best
way to protect endangered species."

"Oct. 17 is the end of the public comment period."

http://www.tribnet.com/news/story/4135499p-4150278c.html
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