I applaud this!!!!!
These aren’t brave hunters like Hemingway was.
They are arrogant libs who kill wild animals trapped in enclosures....a racket in corrupt African countries
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.
That’s absolute bullsquat
I assume you’ve never been to Africa. Elephant aren’t killed in canned hunts, try to build an elephant fence! My friends in Namibia have them cross over from Etosha (which is about 150 miles away) and are thrilled when they destroy about a mile of fence on their property.
There are canned lion hunts, etc, no canned elephant hunts. Don’t condemn something you know nothing about. If there is no elephant hunting, there are no elephants. If you were a cattle rancher, would you want them running across your fences, destroying the pasture if there was no economic value?
Another take is this. If we disallow importation, they just pull more hunters from Spain, Germany, Italy ,etc. The elephants still are killed in the same numbers, the PH are going to use all their quota. I’ve seen this with cheetahs, we don’t allow them to be imported, so Italian hunters, etc. shoot them just the same, so it has no effect on total numbers. Actually in Namibia where my friends live, they are quite common, and European hunters shoot them quite regularly. As he says, the US decided they are endangered. I saw them eating a newborn calf, if there is no hunting, no $$, what would a rancher have done to the cheetah? He would shoot them all!
Find for me an elephant hunt in an enclosure. African, not Indian elephants. It doesn’t exist.