A million wild animals consumed each year... until there's nothing

[medyani]

Vietnamese appetites driving their native animal species to extinction...

(Complete article:)
Vietnam species 'risk extinction'

Experts in Vietnam have warned that the Vietnamese could be eating a number of wild species into extinction.

The chairman of the Vietnam Zoology Association said animals at risk included the rhinoceros, the white-

Comments

[muffyjo]

I'm not clear on whether that's northern or southern vietnam. Doesn't that make a difference? Or are they joined again (I'm feeling very ignorant at the moment). I was under the impression that the northern Vietnamese were still under the dictatorial rule and much poorer, thus necessitating the more aggressive "live off the land" mentality. I'm probably woefully out of date.

[medyani]

No, it's one country (since the North Vietnamese won the war) - and note the article points out that it is the growing urban affluence and a concommitant growth in appetite that is fueling the slaughter of wild animals for the restaurant table.

The have a non-permanent seat on the U.N. -- which is a negative in this context as they are not bound be agreements to protect endangered species -- ultimately, they will be the ones to suffer the most when their forests and fields are silent and the ecosystems perish as a result.

[muffyjo]

Oh dear, how embarrassing, I think I've mixed it up with Korea.

Animals

[fdmts]

Eating animals turns them into poop. That seems to me, less and less respectful.