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    Things with protected status

    Pandas
    Some types of ape
    More to the point if something is so retarted, so fucking defunct and only able to cope in a very specific environment, is there any point in protection?
    Like lowland gorillas, for example?

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    whoever decided to protect the soi dogs needs a good kicking.

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    Pandas - Fohking pointless

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    Quote Originally Posted by chassamui View Post
    Pandas - Fohking pointless
    Everything has a place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaimeme
    Everything has a place.
    Not all conservationists agree that the money spent on conserving pandas is well spent. Chris Packham has argued that the breeding of pandas in captivity is "pointless" because "there is not enough habitat left to sustain them".[65] Packham argues that the money spent on pandas would be better spent elsewhere,[65] and has said he would "eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with,"[66] though he has apologized for upsetting people who like pandas.[67] He points out, "The panda is possibly one of the grossest wastes of conservation money in the last half century."[66]

    The Panda has no place in the food chain. It is not a predator, nor is it required to sustain others. It's only value lies in its rarity. Once it's gone that value will also cease. It has a sedentary lifestyle and despite it's classification as a bear and a carnivore, its diet consists of 99% bamboo. Totally bloody pointless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RangsitRiot
    Like lowland gorillas, for example?
    Quiet, you'll wake up Willie...Or put him to sleep...

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    Quote Originally Posted by chassamui View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by thaimeme
    Everything has a place.
    Not all conservationists agree that the money spent on conserving pandas is well spent. Chris Packham has argued that the breeding of pandas in captivity is "pointless" because "there is not enough habitat left to sustain them".[65] Packham argues that the money spent on pandas would be better spent elsewhere,[65] and has said he would "eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with,"[66] though he has apologized for upsetting people who like pandas.[67] He points out, "The panda is possibly one of the grossest wastes of conservation money in the last half century."[66]

    The Panda has no place in the food chain. It is not a predator, nor is it required to sustain others. It's only value lies in its rarity. Once it's gone that value will also cease. It has a sedentary lifestyle and despite it's classification as a bear and a carnivore, its diet consists of 99% bamboo. Totally bloody pointless.

    Exactly. Conservation efforts seem to have the Panda as their masthead, and they are indeed revered in rapacious cultures like China, whilst they happily buy up all the world's other endangered species as "medicines", ffs.
    And then there is the '"finning" of the world's shark populations. Doh.

    Maybe someone could run into a Panda's pen in some Chinese zoo and cut it's paws off, then throw it out of it's enclosure?

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    ^^^^ Every now and then I get a laff out of TD. Anything to piss off the chinks gets my vote ..��

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    Did you also know that in Australia the main 'fish' they use in fish and chips is shark?

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    Jim Jefferies: Aren't pandas a bunch of cvnts?


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    Great animals but fohking stink. Saw many in Chendu.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangsitRiot View Post
    Pandas
    Some types of ape
    More to the point if something is so retarted, so fucking defunct and only able to cope in a very specific environment, is there any point in protection?
    Like lowland gorillas, for example?
    Can you cites some more specific examples?

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    Bears are much more fun than monkeys.


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    pointless and sedentary lucky i went to C mai

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    William Blake. Wow. Greetings.

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