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Conservation question

Eugene Lapointe, President, International Wildlife Management Consortium

"The question is what interpretation you give to the word 'conservation'. If you use sustainable hunting, you are conserving a species.

When you look at a people using animals for traditional purposes and nutritional purposes they would never over-use the species."


In pictures: Spectrum of opinion at whaling meeting

	Conservation question Eugene Lapointe, President, International Wildlife Management Consortium "The question is what interpretation you give to the word 'conservation'. If you use sustainable hunting, you are conserving a species. When you look at a people using animals for traditional purposes and nutritional purposes they would never over-use the species."