AR-News: (S. Africa) Animal group attacked by environmentalists

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

April 05 2004 at 02:06AM
 

 
By Jo-Anne Smetherham


In an unprecedented attack, 23 of South Africa's top environmentalists have 
accused the Friends of the Tahrs animal rights group of staging a "pantomime" 
in efforts to save the alien tahrs on Table Mountain.

The shaggy, goatlike animals are causing increasing destruction to the 
delicate mountain ecology and will inevitably have to be killed, the high-profile 
group wrote in a letter to a weekend newspaper. 

"It is time to stop this pantomime and let the South African National Parks 
do their work," they wrote, referring to former culling operations. "The tahrs 
must go." 

"The South African National Parks has so many vital conservation challenges 
upon which to spend their very limited money, to expect them to pay for the 
capture and relocation (of the tahrs) is wrong." 






full story:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=14&art_id=vn20040405020652228C732547&s
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