A poll

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1934990]

Comments

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Effective at what?

Kinda hard to generate a dental X-ray with a land mine.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Cats.

[solarbird]

Anybody who complaints about this poll needs some protection.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The DMZ between North Korea and South Korea appears to be able to do it entirely with conventional weapons, making it the only known nesting area of a couple species of cranes, for instance.

[cyprinella]

While the animals around Chernobyl are apparently thriving, an episode of River Monsters that I caught that focused on the fish in the waters in the area ended up saying that they're not quite right. the show is about going out and catching giant freshwater fish. It turns out that giant Wels catfish live in the cooling ponds. However, examination afterwards showed that problems like the fish being about twice as old as its size indicated it should be. So they're being stunted by something, probably by the radiation because there was lots of prey fishes in the waters. I'd go for landmines for best species preservation.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

So it's pure coincidence that I saw a TV news item recently about rhinos having their horns poisoned, to reduce demand from Eastern cultures?

[kla10.livejournal.com]

The thing both methods have in common is, they keep humans out of the area. I suspect that's not coincidence.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

If only "making it mandatory to spend lots of time there" would work to keep people out.

[(Anonymous)]

Landmines are working well in the Falklands.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Note he's asking about protecting the _preserve_. Not about any of the actual wildlife inside.

Also, I see upon submitting my answer that James knows his commentariat quite well by now!

--Dave, and a Starbuck's can't hurt either