re: Founder of Jimmy Johns is a big game hunter. ( people upset)

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Basically since they are selling a "product" they are showing the locals that there is huge money in poaching them.

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no

poachers already have a value set (typically by asian markets). the value of teh animals to the locals is below this, so poaching is pretty rampant and hard to enforce (it's too expensive and the locals don't really support it b/c they'd rather poach the animals)

creating a legal commodity market raises the value of the animals on the legal market to where there is a much larger economic incentive to protect the populations. these hunts are also typically highly regulated and if it involves a protected species, i believe multiple US agencies have to approve the hunt (in addition to the African agencies)

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Hold on... You actually believe that the local population is seeing one cent of that money?

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yes. do some research

also the meat is typically donated to the local area

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I begrudge people from other countries who go there to exploit Africa and it's natural resources.

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Ahhhh...so you hate the Asians.

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If hunting is outlawed they will all just be poached and sold off as ivory.

There will be zero left.

You don't seem to understand that.

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You're an idiot.

I'll repeat one more time.

More money is made from non hunting tourism than by hunting tourism.

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Trophy hunting accounts for a fraction of the R323 billion that tourism contributed to South Africa’s GDP in 2013. About 8,500 trophy hunters visit South Africa each year, compared to around 9.5 million tourists.

The 2006 Biological Conservation paper estimated “a minimum of 18,500” hunters participated in hunts annually in sub-Saharan Africa (generating revenue of around US$201 million), compared to World Bank estimates of around 33.8 million visitors in 2012, earning the region US$36 billion.

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LINK

Whoever told you that African parks are dependent on foreigners coming to kill their spectacle was lying to you.

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You have no idea what you're talking. You could educate yourself in a few minutes via YouTube or article but you're too lazy and are just another moronic knee-jerk reactionary.

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you can take your "college humor" video and cram it in your cramhole, mr. educated.

Legalized ivory tade... lol

You're a pretty naive fellow.

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and Kenya basically cornered that market

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That's completely false.

iirc, Kenya is by far the #1 market

i've read academic papers on this issue before

there are 2 reasons that these populations are endangered: (1) poachers and (2) farmers

the question is how we combat these issues. outlawing the legal market has done just what we see with drugs and the WOD. a black market is created. that's where poachers thrive (and that market is from Asia, not the West)

From your own provided link

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Published in February 2013, the report argued the “US$200 million estimate should be used with caution” and claimed the paper was based on “weak sources and methodology”.Its primary criticism appears to have been that the authors relied on “published and unpublished literature”, much of which Economists at Large researchers were unable access publicly or find online.

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In a 2014 paper, he and two co-authors investigated the economic impact of hunting in South Africa’s Limpopo, Northern Cape and Free State provinces. “The research found 17,806 (Limpopo), 9,072 (Northern Cape) and 4,558 (Free State) jobs may depend on hunting, in addition to those of people permanently employed on game farms,” Saayman said.

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legalizing ivory and horns PLUS flooding the asian markets with manufactured horns to disrupt that market is proabaly the best way to stop the poachers. just crater the price of their goods

Everyone should take at least one Econ course. I thought he was trolling but he may actually be this clueless. Some people just can't wrap their heads around black markets.