<Enough is enough, already.
First states and municipalities issue permits allowing residents to keep exotic (read: dangerous) animals on private property (read: houses and apartments).
Now there’s a group of harebrained ecologists who—according to a recent article in the scientific journal Nature--want to relocate endangered large mammals (read: lions, tigers, rhinos, elephants) from Africa to vast private parks and reserves in North America.
Supporters of the neo-Jurassic proposal say it would begin to restore the environmental biodiversity that existed 10,000 years ago in the United States.
Wonderful. Place the carnivores in fenced parks and reserves along the entire U.S. border with Mexico.
Then don’t feed them. (21 AUGUST 2005)
