Regulating the bush meat trade pales when compared to the health crisis
"One of the more remarkable things that distinguishes the US from any other place in the world is that, if a group of people move to the US and take out American citizenship, in less than a generation, in most cases, they become Americans, they refer to their country, they refer to their Constitution, they refer to their political problems, but you find very little evidence of a first-generation American referring to home as somewhere else, or to 'them' as opposed to 'us.' What has happened in the colonial experience in Africa is that communities and races have tended to keep themselves to themselves. This is not just what's generally referred to as the black-white divide, but also between language groupingsÑyou have people who speak one language, other people speaking another language, and there's very little mixing."
—South Africa Daily Mail and Guardian. Environmentalist and conservationist Richard Leakey considers himself an African, not a white African. He discusses conservation and other issues with Fiona Macleod. "If you're going to have people living in big towns and you're going to have mechanised agriculture, and you're going to have all of the things that go with a technologically modern society, then you have to have conservation. You can't reject conservation as Western and leave the rest as okay."'
