The HORNS I was talking about were rhino’s.......of course I know ivory comes from TUSKS and I know the difference between a hunter and a poacher. One is legal, though for the life of me I don’t understand why human beings go and kill these beautiful animals...is it self-gratification or because they’re lacking something below the belt? And that’s fine and dandy that they call the locals for the meat and I wish poachers and those who pay them the same fate as those animals they slaughter for the black market.
Sorry if I’m not making myself clear on how I feel about this subject......../s
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Ok, so you don’t like hunting. I get that, but for the most part without hunters, no wildlife, I still have a family farm and we personally take an interest in nature and live in it. What do you do?
Now, some harsh facts, importation bans are worthless. Let’s say you are a professional hunter in Zimbabwe. You have to pay for a particular concession where you are allowed to guide hunters, with a quota per species. In other words, you have two male lions, six leopards, and three bull elephant. The USA won’t let you import elephant tusks, etc, so you advertise instead of the USA in Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Arab countries. You fill all the quotas and the importation ban therefore has no effect on populations, but it sure makes people in the US FEEL better! I have seen it in person, I’m not guessing about this, last time I was hunting in Namibia, we saw a cheetah eating a newborn calf. I asked the PH about the importation ban, and he said, cheetahs are numerous here, we can’t import trophies to the US, so we take German hunters (Namibia was a German colony, so they have ties there). Cheetahs are not scarce, but the people in DC and NYC decided they were, that was his words.
Import bans, in other words, are worthless other than making an urban person who knows nothing about life in the wild feel better about THEMSELVES.
I’ve personally fed game birds and animals (besides the farm produce the eat on the side) on our farm, which is rich in wildlife, i’m not a wanton killer. What have you done?