Does anybody know anything about this topic?
The hunting is controlled, so they won’t be hunted to extinction. It also costs a lot to hunt these animals, and that money goes towards protection efforts.
When the ones in the wild are still being hunted, even in preserves, and habitat is still being lost, it doesn't make sense to legally allow the breeding stock to be decreased further...
The question then is how to make these preserves economically sustainable, and create the incentives for more habitat to be created rather than destroyed. Trophy hunting is an answer to that. Not a great answer, not one I really feel okay about ... but an answer.
That does nothing to stop poaching, so both happening at once decreases the overall population. It ignores the fact that preserves should be "economically viable" or "create a profit", which is a very sad view of extinction.
Not protecting habitat decreases the overall population.
In a poor country, for conservation to work, and for habitat to be protected, people need to be invested in it, which means there needs to be a sense that it is a help rather than a hindrance to their subsistence and economic well being.
Look at the people backing this. Is has exactly f*** all to do with protecting the habitat, and 110% to do with letting some Rich Hunter f**** get some more trophies and convince themselves that they're not Satan incarnate cuz somehow some of their large s going to protect the environment that they're killing. Don't f****** fool yourself
Being angry doesn't solve the problem of habitat destruction I'm afraid.
That doesn't make him wrong.
