Sounds terribly unethical at first glance however unfortunately in a lot of these African wildlife sanctuaries they require culls and fund themselves by allowing trophy hunters to do the cull for them.
If trophy hunting does as they say and helps protect endangered populations of animals is of no interest to me. Let the Americans pay to kill African wildlife, I don’t want that in my country.
They can still hunt they just can’t bring the head back,it won’t increase poaching coz YOU STILL CAN’T BRING THE HEAD BACK. There’s enough scum who will still pay thru the nose to kill big game, coz that’s how they get their jollies.
Not a trophy hunter myself but sometimes populations of wild game need to be controlled. If they need to cull a few then fair enough (they eat them anyway). If someone wants to pay to do it then let them.
I mean I find it all a bit strange myself, but if it pumps money into the local economies and the animals are eaten, I can’t see any problem with it.
Now obviously breeding and killing lions (or any predator) is a different story and absolutely revolting. The sickos doing that should absolutely be banned from bringing the “trophies” back.
I work with communities in southern Africa who derive significant income from trophy hunting to support community-led conservation activities. Some of these community areas have immense biodiversity and significant populations of endangered species, as well as traditional ways of life and cultural knowledge of many thousands of years that rely on that biodiversity.
I also find trophy hunting distasteful.
However, if the UK wants to ban trophy imports, maybe they should (at least for a given time period) take some compensation measures for any income loss to such community programmes. Or they could make greater investment in the loss of land and biodiversity which is the real issue of conservation. Wildlife trophies arouse passionate responses, and I understand why, but they aren’t – in number and impact of losses – the real problem being faced by wildlife today.
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This is a weird one.
Sounds terribly unethical at first glance however unfortunately in a lot of these African wildlife sanctuaries they require culls and fund themselves by allowing trophy hunters to do the cull for them.
If trophy hunting does as they say and helps protect endangered populations of animals is of no interest to me. Let the Americans pay to kill African wildlife, I don’t want that in my country.
They can still hunt they just can’t bring the head back,it won’t increase poaching coz YOU STILL CAN’T BRING THE HEAD BACK. There’s enough scum who will still pay thru the nose to kill big game, coz that’s how they get their jollies.
Not a trophy hunter myself but sometimes populations of wild game need to be controlled. If they need to cull a few then fair enough (they eat them anyway). If someone wants to pay to do it then let them.
I mean I find it all a bit strange myself, but if it pumps money into the local economies and the animals are eaten, I can’t see any problem with it.
Now obviously breeding and killing lions (or any predator) is a different story and absolutely revolting. The sickos doing that should absolutely be banned from bringing the “trophies” back.
I work with communities in southern Africa who derive significant income from trophy hunting to support community-led conservation activities. Some of these community areas have immense biodiversity and significant populations of endangered species, as well as traditional ways of life and cultural knowledge of many thousands of years that rely on that biodiversity.
I also find trophy hunting distasteful.
However, if the UK wants to ban trophy imports, maybe they should (at least for a given time period) take some compensation measures for any income loss to such community programmes. Or they could make greater investment in the loss of land and biodiversity which is the real issue of conservation. Wildlife trophies arouse passionate responses, and I understand why, but they aren’t – in number and impact of losses – the real problem being faced by wildlife today.
(edited for grammar)