These people are happy that they ended the life of an innocent wildlife
Trophy hunting should be declared illegal
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It’s interesting, the knee jerk reaction is to say it’s so bad but in certain parts of where I live this kind of thing funds wildlife research and protection. Some Rhino programs are funded in part from hunting. As long as the animals are shot and killed instantly then their lives are better than some cattle. It’s a sensitive topic.
Also many communities benefit from a culled animal as this will feed the village for a long time.
Agree. Most of my listening on the subject is a net positive.
One example is they will cull the oldest male elephant whom will start to become overly aggressive towards the younger ones.
This behaviour is a net negative for the population as the older ones can prevent the life cycle to continue if the geriatric elephant takes out the young.
This behaviour is observed and an auction to ‘trophy’ hunt is held. The proceeds are directly funding the management and research for all the good things you’d want the money to go towards. As well, in some cases if possible, feeding the locals with the harvest.
This topic has been muddied and is not always the evil it seems on the surface.
That is also my understanding of it 😊
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Who enforces this? Because I'm sure anything but eating the bugs could be classified as trophy hunting.
If you keep laws local, then maybe. It's only the extreme cases that are a problem.
I guess I don't see the problem with hunting, regardless of whether it's for meat or thrill. I think there needs to be a conservation angle in play, but it seems like that's a big part of a lot of the current hunting mindset already.
Innocence and guilt don't apply to animals, animals aren't moral actors. So that's not a relevant point imo.
Animals are a resource, and an obviously renewable resource at that. As such, people who hunt animals for any reason have a more vested interest in the conservation of that resource than anyone else. Whether it's for food or for sport, hunters don't want to see the animal population threatened. That incentive is crucial to the conservation of many species around the world.
Even taking elephants for example, to subsistence farmers in Africa elephants are just an extremely destructive pest, one they'd prefer to see eradicated completely because elephants destroying their crops can be a life-or-death situation. The interest and most especially money trophy hunters are motivated to provide to ensure elephant populations remain stable are crucial to prevent farmers from eradicating as many as possible. When trophy hunters are willing to pay thousands of dollars for an elephant tag, suddenly the elephants go from destructive pest to value resource, and local farmers can be compensated for the damage they do and incentivized to also work to protect the population.
Finally, trophy hunters almost by definition target mature males, which is a population segment that can be removed with almost no effect on the population.