Nice little bit of hyperbole there. Hunting is not poaching. Hunting raises fees that are used to STOP poaching and to better manage the herd.
You are wrong, period. Where hunting is legal, elephants are in large numbers. Where hunting is banned, poaching has reduced the elephant numbers drastically.
“Nice little bit of hyperbole there. Hunting is not poaching. Hunting raises fees that are used to STOP poaching and to better manage the herd.”
Hunting is technically legalized poaching. The only difference is that hunters do not do it for money, but for ego and souvenirs.
You could even say that at least poachers do it to make a living. Hunters just do it for ego-boost. Killing a free roaming wild animal in its own natural habitat for no reason other than to gain an unhealthy dose of ego-boost is nothing to be proud of.