Sad news from the lion world today! 😭

When will trophy hunting be banned?

Such a terrible loss 💜🫂

#lions

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I don’t understand trophy hunting.

It’s a ego trip.

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If a politician can't drink it, f--- it, or shoot it up, he'll sell it to buy something he can. They are less fake about this in Africa.

No trophy hunters paying big bucks? Oh well, poison the lions and start a cattle ranch.

I wish there was a third option that didn't require a full return to colonialism.

We need another option 🫂

100%

Banning hunt-tourism, without a credible, profitable, proven replacement, is exactly the sort of finger-wagging, all-care-no-responsibility meddling that Western elites are noted for.

Noooooooooooo 🥲🥲

that’s fucked!

humans are so bullshit!

Wow! I’ve been to Namibia and I hate reading this :((((

Generally trophy hunts are what provide the otherwise unavailable funds for conservation. Highlighting the harvesting of an animal is an easy way to get donations, but consider the effect of ceasing hunter funded conservation efforts. I highly doubt donations could come anywhere close to the revenue harvest licenses brings in.

Is it not in fact best to have the government incentivized to keep population levels sustainable? I fear a hunter-free Africa supported by donations would lead to excellent care of an increasingly smaller number of animals…which is unsustainable.