martybegan
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Simply BeautifulThe Liberal outrage against trophy hunting is as usual, misguided and ill-informed. Without trophy hunting in Africa, all you would have is poaching with little resources to fight back. With trophy hunting you have millions of dollars being put into Wildlife conservancy through donations and the permit fees. The meat from the trophy hunt is usually donated to local tribes who dearly need the meat.
Wrong. With wildlife tourism, each animal gets "used" over and over. It gets killed only once. Waste of natural resources.
And by culling the older non-breeding animals you allow the younger ones more space, more food and more opportunity to breed.
To me I think the biggest thing people against this forget is that in the wild a natural death is usually not pleasant. Animals don't just doze off and die in their sleep. They either slow down enough for predators and/or scavengers to take them out, or they become unable to move and slowly starve or die of thirst, unless some scavengers or predators come along and then they die from option 1.
That's the opposite of "trophy hunting". When was the last time you saw a write up about a hunter killing old or sick animals? FACT is, trophy hunters want the youngest, biggest and so on. That's the whole point of trophy hunting - the dead animal makes up for the lack of balls on the "hunter".
"Hunter" in quotes because there's usually very little "hunting" involved.
Gotta congratulate you on your idea that since dying in nature is unpleasant, we should just shoot them. That's about as lame as it gets.
In Africa you have poaching with little resources to fight back.
Trophy hunting doesn't change this. The money ends up in the pockets of corrupt officials and nothing more. No more money gets spent on dealing with poaching because there are trophy hunters.
Trophy hunting in Africa: 'Hunt operators are conservationists first, and hunters second'
"The benefits hunters cite are disputed. The League Against Cruel Sports say less than 5% of tour fees go to the government for wildlife conservation. And trophy hunting does damage populations, say conservationists. Researchers who tagged leopards in a reserve in Kwazulu Natal in South Africa found 23 of the 26 leopards tracked between 2002 and 2005 were killed through hunting and poaching for bushmeat."
Is Trophy Hunting Helping Save African Elephants?
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Fees from trophy hunting of elephants that are supposed to help local communities—and elephants—often don’t. "
"But a closer look at trophy hunting in Africa shows that the industry employs few people and that the money from hunt fees that trickles down to needy villagers is minimal. Government corruption can be a factor. In Zimbabwe, for instance, individuals associated with President Robert Mugabe have seized lands in lucrative hunting areas. Trophy hunting isn’t stopping poaching, especially in countries that have a poor record of protecting their wildlife."
Exactly true.
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Donnie Two Scoops did this for one reason - so Little DonDon could bring dead heads home with him.
I can't stand the scum DonDon..he is wimp who scums off his daddy's money and gets his rocks off killing beautficul animals..
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I would rather see these animals alive ..they mean nothing on the wall..
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Getting some yob to spend up to $300k to put an old one of these animals on his wall allows the species as whole to have a chance at survival.