A millionaire US big game hunter was ambushed and killed by FIVE angry elephants whilst hunting a small forest antelope in Central Africa armed with a shotgun.
It’s hard for people to understand that conservation more often than not involves reducing population size to benefit the environment. It’s easier to believe that all hunters are evil than to understand that some animals must die to save the majority. Sadly the idea of just moving animals around isn’t cost effective or feasible most of the time and ethical hunting does in fact fund widespread conservation.
Hunting is something that can be fairly easy to manage. Count your animals, stop unregulated killing, see how many paying hunters you can support while still having the animal population still trend exponentially upward. Doing things like stopping global climate change and deforestation are problems many orders of magnitude larger. And it takes a ton of money away from rich people and puts it to a good cause. They could pay less to poachers to come along with and have more guaranteed success. I don’t like people killing things that they aren’t going to at least eat, but we have learned to make lemonade from the lemons, but a lot of people can’t understand that.
It’s hard for people to understand that conservation more often than not involves reducing population size to benefit the environment. It’s easier to believe that all hunters are evil than to understand that some animals must die to save the majority. Sadly the idea of just moving animals around isn’t cost effective or feasible most of the time and ethical hunting does in fact fund widespread conservation.
Hunting is something that can be fairly easy to manage. Count your animals, stop unregulated killing, see how many paying hunters you can support while still having the animal population still trend exponentially upward. Doing things like stopping global climate change and deforestation are problems many orders of magnitude larger. And it takes a ton of money away from rich people and puts it to a good cause. They could pay less to poachers to come along with and have more guaranteed success. I don’t like people killing things that they aren’t going to at least eat, but we have learned to make lemonade from the lemons, but a lot of people can’t understand that.