07-28-2015, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Deer hunting is regulated, licensed, populations monitored. And the hunters eat what they kill. Granted trophy heads are prized but so is the meat.
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But what about all the species that are hunted that don't fall into that category? Bears, for example?
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
settle the fuck down, you're the one falling for that big game trophy hunters fund animal preserves and foster conservation nonsense/
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Why is it nonsense?
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In 2012, foreign hunters spent $115 million in South Africa, where the hunting industry as a whole brings in more than $744 million annually and employs 70,000 people. It is the single most lucrative form of commercial land use.
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Susie Offord, Save the Rhino’s deputy director, maintains trophy hunting is a useful conservation tool if managed properly.
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Tourism and donations do not come close to covering the billions of dollars needed, says zoologist John Hanks, former head of the World Wildlife Fund’s South Africa chapter. “I think trophy hunting in South Africa is absolutely essential if we are going to look for long-term future for rhinos in the whole of Africa,” Hanks said. “… There’s hardly a single country anywhere that can afford to run its national parks as they should be run. … Here we are in South Africa, one of the richest countries in the continent, Kruger Park has a million visitors a year and [it] still cannot afford to defend the rhinos.”
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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, trophy hunting "provides an economic incentive" for ranchers to continue to breed those species, and that hunting "reduces the threat of the species' extinction".
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The National Wildlife Federation supports hunting because "under professional regulation, wildlife populations are a renewable natural resource that can safely sustain taking."
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South African Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, states that the hunting industry has contributed millions to South Africa's economy in past years. In the 2010, hunting season, total revenue of approximately R1.1-billion was generated by the local and trophy hunting industries collectively. "This amount only reflects the revenue generated through accommodation and species fees. The true revenue is therefore substantially higher, as this amount does not even include revenue generated through the associated industries as a result of the multiplier effect," according to Molewa
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