with all the staving people in africa why dont the UN catch some of the millions of wilderbeast that migrate?

Question

up and down africa each season

up and down africa each year and feed them to thge starving

Answer 1

Apart from the fact it would destroy the ecosystem...

There are the war lords stopping aid (stated above)
There is no way to store the meat for longer than a week
If you were to find a way to store the meat for longer than a week or employ a weekly harvest of the wildebeest it would cost more money than is available for aid
The countries that form the UN like to send home-made aid because then the money made from paying for the food to be grown stays in the country sending it.
It could cause a worse famine because of ecosystem destruction

here is how: Kill off 30% of the wildebeest you get a decline in predator populations like lions which lets other herbivores take over killing crops of the farmers who manage to grow food to feed them selves.

Answer 2

The problem is deeper than simplistic food.
The issue is of massive overpopulation in areas which have the least resources to cater for those populations.
I give the example of ethioia, which at the start of the 20thC had approx 6 million people. Now many times that, with 8 million purely dependent on the UN for food.
Furthermore, people are living longer- whereas previously hy birth rates and high mortality kept population levels stable and reasonably sustainable.
The development programs for Africa are often poorly planned and terribly implemented.
The governments are ridiculously corrupt or being undermined by war partly funded by non-African interest groups- such as n Sudan right now in oil-rich Darfur province.

Unfortunately, a cynical person may comment that it would be better to let a generation starve or die out so th population is at a more suitable level,

Answer 3

Part of the problem is that starving people often live in areas which are controlled by warlords who do not permit humanitarian aid to be given to people who are of different tribes than they are.

Answer 4

That would only help out for one meal, the problem goes much deeper than that.
The saying give a man a fish and he eats for a day, give him a fishing rod, and he will eat forever
or something like that.

Answer 5

You mean just eat all the wildebeest, as in killing all the Great Plains buffalo in the USA?

Wildebeest are food for lions and cheetahs.

Answer 6

That would be entirely too logical. Do you think the UN makes logical decisions?

Answer 7

I've got a better idea, tell them to stop breeding - less mouths to feed then.