BBC: The zoo that wants to release wild elephants in Denmark
“In the beginning when we told people about this project they just laughed at us,” says Ole Sommer Bach, curator of Randers Rainforest zoo, referring to his institution’s plan to introduce a population of Asian elephants in northern Denmark. “I think most people thought it was some kind of provocation, or a practical joke; but it really wasn’t.”
This is Pleistocene rewilding. Advocates want to set the clock back not hundreds, but thousands of years. Around 13,000 years in fact, to when the Pleistocene era was drawing to a close: an almost incomprehensible length of time for us mortals, but the mere blink of an eye for Earth’s ecosystems.
From: BBC – Earth – The zoo that wants to release wild elephants in Denmark
Ok, so everyone UNDERSTANDS what elephants do to the local flora? They UNDERSTAND that they eat fermented fruit and get drunk and destroy stuff, and that they go on rampages and sometimes have to be shot and killed to stop them (just like lions). Everyone also understands that the local flora and fauna have evolved since the time similar beasts were around and are no longer compatible with living with elephants?
Good. How much tax money will need to be raised to fix all the shitstorms these animals create?
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/caught-on-video-a-wild-elephant-tears-through-a-bengal-town-1275920
I’ve seen elephants close up: 5 meters. I’ve seen what they do to vegetation and trees. I’ve been to Addo Elephant Park. You do not f*uck with elephants people. It’s not like you take a deer rifle out and shoot one if it’s harassing your chickens. The small elephants I saw were the size of a mid size SUV.
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