Reply To: The consequences of NOT killing lions

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Matt wrote:

But I digress. Here’s the real point: the lions in question belong, as much as any animal can, to the country in which they reside. Is it really our place to tell that country what they can and can’t do with their own natural resources?

This idea of animals being natural to or belonging somewhere whereas other animals (man included) don’t is poppycock. Camels, horses, and cheetahs evolved in North American and ended up someplace else (btw, the puma’s closest big cat cousin is the cheetah, which I always thought was cool). Species move around, disappearing from where they originally “belonged” and taking up what can only be described as temporary residence somewhere else.