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Elephants Getting Killed Because Of Tourists Like These

This is from my research on the video. Apparently what the safari tourists in this video are doing is arrogant, thoughtless and against many "unspoken" rules of etiquette when on African game reserves. They are allowing the elephants to become so comfortable with humans that the elephants become dangerous pests and have to be euthanized. This is because the elephants begin barging into every tourist camp and this causes unhappy tourists. Unhappy tourists don't return which means non revenue making safari tours. Add it all together and the outcome is dead elephants. What they should have done is gotten in there vehicles and left and notified the rangers. In this instance the a ranger and two guides observed the situation and chased the elephant out with their park vehicles.

The real scary part is not so much how comfortable the elephants are with them but how totally oblivious these folks are to the elephant.


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Added: Sep-12-2012 
By: Thickhanger
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  • Stupid fucking people!

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  • Tourists are the scourge of humanity.

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  • They are in HIS fucking house!

    They are no better than ivory poachers in terms of the harm they are doing to the elephant population.

    It is possible to "observe" wildlife from a distance and let it remain wild. No need to be setting up camp within the bounds of the reserve.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 

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  • haha that was cool.

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  • This is because the human race is thick!!!

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  • That doesn't even make sense. How many of these tourists will really return or could even afford to? A tour of Africa. That's like a once in a lifetime thing for most normal jerkoffs. If I ever take that trip, there damn well better be some overly friendly pachyderms storming the camp or I'm never going back!

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    • @angeldust What I said had less than nothing to do with where people come from or the stupid "my country is better than your country" bullshit.

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  • fucking humans

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  • A five ton animal leaning over your shoulder and you aren't scared to death? That single animal could destroy all of you and your equipment in seconds.

    These stupid fucking city fucks who believe the jungle is the same as the zoo.

    The best possible outcome would be for the elephant to stomp these idiots to death and steal their sandwiches.

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  • I don't see how you can mitigate the problem any other way than by abolishing tourism. You don't simply tell an elephant to leave your camp. It's like a grizzly bear, it does what it wants. You could try to "scare it off" like a bear but you are really only endangering your own life provoking it. If you are going to shoot at it, you better make it count. It is not a matter of "allowing". And in this case, the elephant was clearly comfortable enough alrady. What's the differen More..

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    • @wellybub I don't know what this video is about or where it is , let me see if i can find out. In Botswana they have banned Hunting of any kind from 2013 because eco tourism is making more money than trophy hunting. Read about it here.

      http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/15/no-more-hunting-of-any-kind-in-botswana/

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  • Stupid Humans!!!

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  • Fuck those emfalants, shoot em all.

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