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I agree with you. But local and national governments make sure that game hunting for the hell of it does NOT take place. As has been established, the law requires meat to be donated.
I would never do a trophy hunt. Personally I think it is disgusting. But the fees and permits that trophy hunters pay for is what funds the national parks and the rangers that protect these animals from poachers.
Without trophy hunting, every cute little lion cub in Africa would be having its pelt skinned off to make wall hangings and bathroom rugs.
In 2012, the industry generated roughly 70 million in American dollars in South Africa where 8,000 lions live in captivity, compared to 4,000 in the wild. There is no evidence that profits from the industry aid conservation, and no captive-to-wild breeding program is known to exist. The lions are bred merely to support the insatiable appetites of trophy hunters, as epitomized by Safari Club International, an organization that presents awards to its members for killing big game animals.
Some studies have found that only around 3 percent of the permit fees and hunting revenues go back to local communities. Instead, the profits are reaped largely by the national governments and foreign outfitters who arrange the hunts.
Thank you for posting this and its exactly what I have read----communities are not getting money from these cruel hunts. The money is going into the hands of greedy individuals.
Also lifeexplorer---- I don't know why you posted a rant from a hunter, of course hunters defend themselves and what they do. Any one that truly cares about African animals cannot take your post seriously. Defending 'baiting' a lion for its death and making excuses how ending a wild game animals life is somehow helping the species. Nope, not buying it------ its a garbage excuse to justify what they do.
Thank you for posting this and its exactly what I have read----communities are not getting money from these cruel hunts. The money is going into the hands of greedy individuals.
Also lifeexplorer---- I don't know why you posted a rant from a hunter, of course hunters defend themselves and what they do. Any one that truly cares about African animals cannot take your post seriously. Defending 'baiting' a lion for its death and making excuses how ending a wild game animals life is somehow helping the species. Nope, not buying it------ its a garbage excuse to justify what they do.
This is A sport ( a very long stretch of the word) that men with small endowment use to remedy their deep sense of inferiority. It's very obvious and it's time we all acknowledge it.
I agree with you. But local and national governments make sure that game hunting for the hell of it does NOT take place. As has been established, the law requires meat to be donated.
Does the law require the hunters to pose with parts of the animals they killed, like trump jr and the elephant tail? Disgusting.
Obviously these men don't do this to keep the parks going or feed villages, or they would just donate cash. It makes them feel like big men to shoot big amimals.
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