IN response to Robert Borsak’s opinion (February 26), I happen to be one of those “rabid animal rights activists”.
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I can’t help but notice that his language towards South African elephants almost paints them in the same light as vermin.
Now, while I understand the need to control populations of pests and vermin, so as to protect the ecological balance, I don’t see the need to “control” an elephant population simply because it is an inconvenience to poor humans.
Elephants were there first, and seeing as humans like to put themselves above all else in the animal kingdom, crediting themselves with a higher intelligence, why doesn’t the intelligent human race help those affected by pesky elephants perhaps move their farming practices to a location where elephants don’t feel the need to fill their hungry bellies?
Just because they’re not endangered (yet), doesn’t mean humans should shoot them to the point where they are.
We can’t claim to have a higher intelligence and then expect elephants to just change their habits if they don’t want to be shot.
We need to change and adapt and learn to share.
Humans aren’t very good at that sharing thing though.
They prove it every day when they shoot animals out of inconvenience.
Poor victimised humans.
— KERRI-ANNE SERONG,
Ovens