The paradox of the hunting ban

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One professional hunter asks: “Everyday millions of chickens are slaughtered, around 28,675,000 broilers in 2005 alone. Have you ever heard of chickens being listed as vulnerable or endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?”

Hunting is such a strange issue that it can turn even the most logical people into purveyors of irrationality and make the most liberal intolerant.

A study titled ‘An Interdisciplinary Approach to Inform Conservation Strategies for Threatened Species in the Australian Western Desert’ by scientists Rebecca and Doug Bird offers insights into maintaining animal communities through ecosystem engineering and co-evolution of animals and humans.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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