> The practice actually has encouraged conservation of these beautiful animals. <
No argument there. Trophy hunters help cull the herd. And their money helps to preserve what’s left. But are those trophy hunters really hunters? Nope, not at all. They don’t get any respect from me.
No, I suppose you are right. As a little black dog, I am a mighty hunter myself.. gophers, squirrels, rabbits, birds. My human mom makes the BEST faces as she tries to trade me for my prizes!!! I even brought in a gopher once that I had been stalking for days, just as dinner guests walked in the door. It was great fun, her shaking my mouth open so I’d drop the gopher on the floor. Then she said to her guests..(seriously she did).. “Dinner anyone?”
The purpose of the Wash. Post writer/article was not to tell the story about conservation efforts as the prime focus but to diss the hunter and THEN talk about the successful conservation program.
I’m not a hunter and wouldn’t kill such a magnificent animal, but culling is one way of preserving oversized herds which can face starvation if they overgraze a limited area.
Leave it to the Post to bias the reader against a hunter before they learn the whole story. The Post has been doing that to America for over 50 years (I started reading the Post in 1966. It got so biased against the US over Vietnam, then against Israel, pro-Communist guerrillas in Nicaragua and El Salvador that some of us formed Accuracy in Media in 1969 to fight this bias. Others formed CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in the 1980’s to counter terrible bias against Israel and even Iran).
Nothing has changed and with Bezos owning the Wash Post, things have only gotten worse. I can’t distinguish between the Compost and the old Tass, Pravda, Izvestia, and New Times.
From the story it sounds like he didn’t hunt anything at all, just walked up to a docile animal and executed it.