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By Ricky Florentino {This is excerpt of a letter sent to me by a contributor of mine}
There's this thought that some animals were destined to be domesticated by man as to serve his purposes (food, etc.) so this leaves the "untamed" to serve a different one (purpose) unclear to him (man). That unknown is what he now calls "ecological balance". Here's a couple of pictures that my friend back there sent me. He said these were taken somewhere in the Banahaw area. The first one shows the wingspan of a flying fox after it was shot with an air rifle.
The story behind this second picture is that the flying fox was still alive when this photo was taken. So that means he got skinned alive, then chopped to pieces ready for "adobo" with "gata."
Sometimes we cannot blame people for hunting these species when they have mouths to feed. These are people who cannot afford the standard meat commodities most of the time. They are farmers but cannot rely solely on zero-profit harvests during typhoon season. Don't get me wrong here and be thinkin' that I'm justifying these acts. No, I'm not. I'm just presenting views and perspectives which I guess you've encountered before. What we need is to get the word out that this and that species is/are endangered and that people should refrain from hunting "exotics" then they might actually stop. Another option to stop heavy hunting is to fabricate some sort of a story that this certain species was recently found out to be a carrier of a contagious disease or something like that. You get the picture. Ignorance is a sorry excuse, but it can be a ticket to knowledge.
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