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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Population growth and cultural destruction (Re: Nast
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- In article <725789687snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
- >It is no confusion whatever that a high turnover does not correspond
- >with a high productivity. There can be an extremely high rate of
- >re-production without ever achieving high levels of productivity,
- >especially on a seasonal basis with massive mortality rates being
- >experienced with the encroachment of the Dry Season.
-
- Biological productivity is the amount of organic matter (usually expressed in
- terms of the energy involved) produced in certain area in a certain time.
- You seem to be confusing it with population growth.
-
- As the Flood Plain Rat is extremely abundant during the dry season, I doubt
- there is a massive mortality at the start of the dry. What is your source
- for all of this?
-
- >The bloc together pursuing Camp Fire Programs of which Zimbabwe is a member
- > lying in its south west, is in East Africa. Yes?
-
- No. By East Africa most of us, mean what was formerly British and German East
- Africa, i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Zimbabwe is in
- southern Africa. CAMPFIRE is actually an acronym for a particular Zimbabwe
- program. The only other country I've heard of pursuing a similar program is
- Zambia.
-
- Many African countries try to both involve local people in conservation
- and allow them to benefit from it. This is a tenet of "meddling foreign
- conservationist" organisations such as the WWF.
-
- >the repeated plea has consistently been toward raising the standard here.
-
- You have lowered the standard by posting reams of abuse and mis-information.
-
- Andrew Taylor
-