'Why take animal lives when you can save them?' SA Tahrs

The International Wildlife Trust which offered to help pay for the relocation of Table Mountain's Himalayan tahrs says the decision to shoot them is "an absolute disgrace".

The Marchig Animal Welfare Trust said some time ago it would help fund the animals' removal to a private game reserve if a permit for their relocation was obtained.

However SA National Parks (Sanparks) officials began shooting the tahrs last week and say they plan to eliminate them all.

Marchig managing trustee Les Ward said from Scotland on Wednesday, hours after he heard the news of the shooting for the first time, that Sanparks had not notified him of the decision, and that he was "absolutely fuming".

"In 24 years of being involved with conservation bodies and government bodies throughout the world, never, ever, ever, have I been treated this way," he said.

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Human hubris is the greatest sin.

and isn't that a sad excuse.

I will never be able to understand mankind's ability to take life so easily and only hold fellow mankind's life sacred...it is an abomination. Look at the majestic beauty of the tahr...