And so, the elephant is put in danger by do-gooders in the U.S.A. who refuse to acknowledge reality.
Legal elephant hunting is keeping the elephant from extinction.
When the elephants are not worth anything to the local people, who view them as pests, the elephants go away and the local poachers become heroes.
That is the result of the policies you advocate.
Elephants breed to overpopulate the available habitat.
Either the government kills them, which costs money, sport hunters kill them, which brings in money, or poachers kill them, which wastes most of the elephant.
Those are your choices.
Interesting, you know something about this. Thanks for the info.
I’m not sure you can have healthy animal populations without hunters as part of their management. Could you imagine our animal problems without a 2nd amendment?
Question : Why are the poachers killing them ?
Exactly. What you do not eat goes extinct. Banning hunting has always lead to uncontrolled poaching. The Soviets almost obliterated whale population after the Japanese whalers were banned off of Australia, without any wildlife Shephard to spend money and time to keep the populations healthy.
Donations to WWF does not cut it. People owning conservation easement is what works.
Don’t mess them up with facts, elephant hunting prohibition is about emotion!
Legal elephant hunting is hastening elephant extinction by just adding to the body count run up by poachers. Eliminate them and then I'll accept your BS about legal hunting being helpful.
So what about in Zimbabwe, for instance, where individuals associated with President Mugabe have seized lands in lucrative hunting areas ? And where the government is actively supporting or even arming poachers ?