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I'm fairly sure that everyone is with you.... except for a bunch of insane violence obsessed gun-toting 'merkins
 (I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 15:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post We could probably teach Elephants how to operate specially adapted firearms.
But I'd prefer we strayed away from guns altogether...
 (Huw Edwards #notalljews, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 15:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bollocks
Elephants need to be culled in areas overpopulated by elephants.
People in a third world country work out a way to turn a dollar from it.
That dollar helps conserve elephants and their habitat.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 17 Nov 2017, 20:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh right, so we're doing them a favour by slaughtering them?
However did they manage without us?
 (Huw Edwards #notalljews, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 20:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Culling is generally accepted
Even by moonbats, as a keystone of conservation.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 17 Nov 2017, 20:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Doesn't really answer my question though, does it?

(Huw Edwards #notalljews, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 21:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post I chose to ignore
Both of your fatuous questions. Imagining a world without humans doesn't help a single elephant.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 17 Nov 2017, 21:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Culling is a separate issue.
And complicated africageographic.com/blog/decoding-kruger-elephant-management-plan/

The value of trophy hunting is supposed to be in areas where no other incentive exists to conserve wildlife.

But then if you can afford the hunting permit fees and care about wildlife why not just go on a non lethal upmarket safari.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 21:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Because Africa is inhabited by Africans, not hipsters
You might rather it were otherwise. Safari tourists are a given, and the locals need to turn a buck. Where that buck doesn't involve industry, mining or poaching, and where it has a demonstrably positive effect on wildlife, I'm all for it.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 17 Nov 2017, 22:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Botswana has banned hunting and is not run by hipsters.
And I'm not sure trophy hunting helps the fight against wildlife trade.

I agree that opposing it without providing a financial alternative isn't going to be effective.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 17 Nov 2017, 23:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post For fun and lols, I would put shooting an elephant right up there
with the Spanish Inquisition. But Africa needs all the Yanks spunking tens of thousands of dollars it can get.

By making big game taboo, and hounding a dentist over the killing of Cecil the Friendly Lion, urbanites whose knowledge of Africa is based on Disney have deprived reserves of a lucrative resource.

By the way, it's also left a load of specialist trackers unemployed: if only there were an illegal trade in which they can monetise their skills...
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 18 Nov 2017, 8:31, , Reply)