You know, if you’ve got a family in Africa and your kids are starving and there’s one wildebeests left, you’re gonna shoot the wildebeests. ’cause you have no alternative. You gotta give people alternative. That’s why ecotourism is important, you know, that’s why we go over there too, so that they have another source. If they realize that if they don’t cut down the forest, they shoot the last animal, people are gonna come to see it and they have a sustainable income that might work. But it, but if, if we don’t give them that alternative, then, then, then protecting nature in, in developing countries is gonna be very difficult in the future. One of the other things, ’cause you’ve just kind of touched on it, is that zoos had at one time adopt a national park to help and do things that maybe national parks in Africa couldn’t do. But, and it seemed like a good idea, but you don’t hear about zoos champion championing that Issue.
