Posted on 08/11/2015 9:06:43 AM PDT by marktwain
Hunting in Africa is big business. The African countries depend on hunters, willing to pay extravagant tag fees to the government and spend many thousands of dollars in the local economy, to fund their conservation efforts that preserve and protect these beautiful animals from poachers and extinction. Earlier this week Delta, United, and American Airlines all announced that they will no longer allow the shipment of hunting trophies on their flights. While the reaction from Americans was one of support, the African governments who actually understand the situation are saying that this PR stunt might be single-handedly responsible for eliminating any remaining conservation efforts for these animals.
From the AP:
“The decision by Delta Air Lines to enforce a blanket ban fails to distinguish between the trade in and transportation of legally acquired wildlife specimens, and the illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife specimens,” the ministry said in a statement.
South Africa has been struggling to contain a record surge in rhino poaching, and poachers have slaughtered tens of thousands of elephants annually for their ivory around Africa in recent years.
Neighboring Namibia also warned that a ban by airlines on trophy transportation will hurt its economy and conservation efforts that rely on revenue from hunters.
“This will be the end of conservation in Namibia,” the Namibia Press Agency quoted Pohamba Shifeta, the environment and tourism minister, as saying.
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The tourism business for people to come and view the animals could be bigger if the African countries would get their acts together. There’s lots of money to be made from tourists.
Why is it, everything good that the Left Loons touch dies or decays or disfigures into something appalling?
No doubt and I don’t condemn that, certainly. I just personally don’t feel engendered to this particular case.
I’d much rather be able to pay a buttload of money and legally bag something like an “African Sharptopotamus” or something like that. :o)
PING
The US has been trying to “stop” exotic game hunting for years. Try importing or even selling Ivory in/to the USA and see what happens to you.
You’re right about Zoos. “Cruelty at its max”. But for USA Zoos, it’s really about breeding and the big bucks that comes with it,
Don’t send your trophy by air. It takes months to get it back anyway. Might as well send it by ship.
Does one still get to plead “unintended consequences” when the same old thing happens every time?
Seriously.
Who cares as long as some bearded hipster feels smug and cozy knowing as he goes to bed in his mom’s basement.
Hunting has already saved many of the hunted species. Delta, United and American are being run by idiots, they, along with all the Cecil hand wringers, have likely sounded the death knell for several African species...
The fees generated by offering one tag for an endangered rhino kill / trophy can support conservation efforts for all the rest. The question is not whether they are endangered, but rather whether there are a sufficient number that losing one can result in supporting its replacement by protecting or procreating two or more.
The article is correct. The MSM is evil and hate actual Africans, and wildlife.
Liberals don’t care. They get to feel good as they tweet, so that is all that matters to them!
Depends where you are whether or not they are 'endangered'. They've been pretty much poached into extinction in places where it is illegal to hunt them. In those places where it is legal to hunt them, the herds are getting big enough for them to be real nuisances and pests to the locals. (Rhinos, like elephants, can be quite destructive to crops) Amazing how that works. Where you allow free enterprise to work, folks have an incentive to good game management. Where you forbid the market, things are destroyed.
Is there no shipping by ship from Africa? Just takes a little longer to get where it’s going.
There is perhaps one chance in ten that a package (as opposed to a bulk shipment) would make it intact from inner Africa, to a port, onto a tramp steamer...and eventually reach the US.
One chance in five that it arrives at all.
Lets burn some ivory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sark!
Lets burn some ivory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sark!
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