ANIMAL CRACKERS
SUPPOSING the World Wildlife Fund for Nature Conservation had announced that it had decided to operate a shoot-to-kill policy against illegal badger hunters (who have, incidentally, grown steadily more numerous of late) and that in the last two weeks more than 30 of them had been shot dead. Surely a few eyebrows would be raised? Yet Mr Richard Leakey, in charge of wildlife conservation in Kenya, was able to announce on British television last week that more than 30 Kenyan ivory poachers had been shot dead in the previous two weeks — without provoking so much as a peep of protest. What are the lives of a few African criminals compared with those of our pachydermatous friends? This is an example of the ruthlessness of the environ- mentalists and their supporters.
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