Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Kenya lifts ban on logging after six years | DW News Africa" video.

  1. banning the harvesting of trees including all plantation timber country-wide was obviously an absurd overreaction. I suppose it's unsurprising from kenya, which also invented the stable genius market strategy of making bonfires out of seized ivory. one in a series of those events was had in 2016, when kenya burned 105 tons of ivory (7000 elephants worth) and 1.5 of rhino horn. the CITES convention in principle allows states to source-certify ivory as seized (thus not financing poaching), and freely sell it internationally, where it would be legal to trade in most countries with ongoing documentation. ivory with such CITES documents (long-registered old stock from before the bans) is extremely highly valued on the global market. by selling certified legal ivory, kenya and other african states could make poaching far less profitable by satiating much of the demand with a far superior product. by burning those 7000 elephants worth of ivory instead of selling it, kenya created the profit motive for the poaching of another 7000 elephants. selling that ivory also would have generated huge profits, which could have been invested in conservation (or education,healthcare, infrastructure, whatever). the rationale of this policy is the market forces equivalent of catholic africa's myth of condoms being the cause of aids (bonus points for also believing that the cure for aids is intercourse with a virgin).
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