if there is a need to cull a herd
I don't see how giving the job to someone who gets off on it is a good thing.
That's like selling the chance to pull the switch on a death row inmate to the highest bidder.
Sure it might give some funds to the prison or even the family of those he has killed, but it's still fucked up.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 9:15,
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MONEY LOADS OF MONEY
To finance the protection of the other species.
If done properly, the animals are butchered earning even more from meat, hides or Chinese erection deficiency cures.
You and I would not do it, but parks would be financially irresponsible not to.
(, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 9:18, Reply)
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If you need to manage an animal population, manage the animal population professionally; not by auctioning off the deed to the hands of psychotic mentalists. These people need medical help, not a free reign killing things. The concept of rich hunters buying their way into other countries to kill their wildlife is loathsome.
The argument their money actually benefits conservation, or the local people is highly questionable. Firstly as a conservationist, or someone working in conservation, you would have to seriously ignore your own fundamental principals to take that money from these wankers in the first place. It's just rich people running amok not giving a shit about wildlife having a highly irresponsible attitude to often endangered species, and it's not sustainable. Telling Africans to conserve their wildlife whilst a few rich westerners go in a kill it also reeks of colonialism. Also in an age of poaching for pseudo scientific bollocks medicine in animal body parts, and the trade in ivory, trophy hunting is a serious distraction.
This highlights quite how sick the mentality of these hunters is:
Exposing the Safari Club International
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:01,
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I agree with you...
...But reality is somewhat messier that the pure concept that you expose.
As an aside, I hate hunting, I hate killing stuff, even pruning trees makes me question humanity...
The concept of "wankers running amok" is what's to be avoided: it should be long tracking expeditions, following tracks and shit.
Not shooting an animal eating a lure with a bow from a car while drinking beer.
It should be organised by the parks for their conservation efforts and financial gain. Not poachers out for a quick buck.
The act of killing certain animals was the privilege of the few in precolonial Africa, as in the British Isles.
In any case, there is no perfect solution,except getting all humans out of the scenery, park them on Mars in steel rabbit hutches and let nature do it's thing without our intervention.
But that's going to be complicated.
So a zombie apocalypse where only 1 to 5% of humans survive is the next best option.
Where you and I have a 95 to 99% chance of ending up as "braaainns".
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