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To: elmatador who wrote (28516)	2/7/2003 5:09:20 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

< I would miss chickens, cows, horses, pigs, sheep goats. Got it now?> Oh, so useful domesticated animals? DAK

To: elmatador who wrote (28516)	2/7/2003 12:21:35 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

That's becauz you are shallow and self centered.....Sorry

To: elmatador who wrote (28516)	2/8/2003 11:34:48 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

OK sticking with things with clear monetary/marketable value: For example: It is difficult to make fish go completely extinct by overfishing but there are plenty of cases already of collapsed fish populations which aren't rebounding to their former size even after fishing was banned. On my tiger example... I'm sure those Chinese medicine people who want tiger bones don't want tigers to go extinct. But hunting for tigers because they are saleable has made them extinct in many areas and pushed them to the endangered level in others. They are also clearly valuable as a tourist asset in countries like India. Of course they are also dangerous to local people there and they don't manage to capture much or any of the value that other people can derive from tigers or if they wanted to to manage their population effectively they don't have the property rights or capabilities to do so. So poachers continue to poach and local people continue to convert habitat etc. etc. It is a classic market failure, just like the fish.... The domestic animals you mention aren't extinct not just because they are useful but because farmers can own them. Being useful or valuable isn't the whole story... David