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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valéry Schollaert" data-source="post: 2194074" data-attributes="member: 75148">Hi Neils,I wonder the money spent to feed, with mice or rats or other rodents (or chicks), the raptors and other carnivorous kept in zoos...It is typical of the incoherence of our behaviour regarding nature (and often many other stuff). We destroy one side what we need in another side. We can argue transport is polluting and expensive, but we transport from China to Europe (for instance) so many useless products...I wouldn't eat rats because I'm vegetarian, but it is good meat... 70% of agricultural surfaces of the world a directly or indirectly use of meat production... but we would waste tons of meat in poisoning them. This is related to my "respect" concept. We have a true, urgent problems of rat in some seabirds colony. Let's say we have no other solution than killing them (I'm not conviced, but have no straightforward solution). At least, let's kill them for something... and be sure our method is not painful. We are going far from the subject. I strongly think we should stop today all "scientific" collection; that"s sure. As sure, I've no solution for all the mess we have created to the ecosystems through the World! My advice would be, in priority, trying our best to limit our bad impact, priority on all researches and on all managments.I'm not living nor working on a island. I've solution to save "my" forest but need some 100.000 dollars, a weak proportion of the money spent in poisoning rats or crows. I'm sure I'd be employed in a island, I would find a way to "my" problem. But every place is different, every problem has a specific solution... what is true in South Gerogia may be wrong on Dominica...CheersValéry</blockquote>

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