[RRL]

I've heard this used as the line of thinking for why we still have zoos as well. To help conservation. If animals are out of sight and out of mind then they're out of my concern. So, let's keep the zoos to keep wild animals on top of mind, and hopefully around a little longer.

[ch4s3]

I'm somewhat ambivalent about zoos, but they are important for education and as centers for wildlife conservation efforts.

[popcube]

let me indicate that most scientists work on these animals are working in zoo -- only they know how to cure, take care and saving wildlife in this world.

[nerdponx]

Hunters were the first American conservationists with any success.

[paulryanrogers]

In the sense that they destroyed most megafauna within a few centuries of arrival? Or in the sense that modern hunters are now regulated so they don't drive their choice species extinct?

[ch4s3]

No, he means people like Roosevelt. The North American megafauna that went extinct all died off at the end of the Pleistocene during a period of rapid warming, it isn't know how much humans contributed in North America.

[nerdponx]

Neither. Teddy Roosevelt was famously a conservationist in part because he was a hunter.

[t-3]

You will rarely meet someone who cares more about the environment than people who choose to spend days/weeks up a tree watching for animals for fun.