re: Animal rights campaigners outragedover cheerleader hunting pics

quote:

---

I don't see how hunters can save the resource from the poachers. It's a numbers game and unfortunately the conservationist won't win. Too many desperate starving people too offset the hunters. Not to mention the lack of understanding on behalf of the poachers. Let's face it, it takes a certain amount of sophistication to understand game mgt. And I don't think the indigenous people get it.

---

You're right for the most part concerning the indigenous. It will take a cultural change for them to understand, which as we have seen in our on country is hard to do.

The hunters can't stop poaching completely, but they can reduce it through the money they pay to hunt and meat they provide. The money can help provide more resources for conservation efforts and the meat is a way to earn goodwill from the locals.

Helicopters with thermal cameras would be the way to go since the majority of the poaching occurs at night. Those boys would shite their pants with a chopper bearing down on them.

quote:

---

Can no one explain to me what I was asking about?

---

The hunters can't stop poaching completely, but they can reduce it through the money they pay to hunt and meat they provide. The money can help provide more resources for conservation efforts and the meat is a way to earn goodwill from the locals.

Money buys weapons and vehicles to patrol and gives villagers incentive not to decimate populations rather take a few and leave the rest to produce another crop.

If the locals understood that since they control the supply, the can charge whatever they want for it. So only harvesting a few a year would drive the price up of whatever they're selling, and they still get to collect the money for the hunt

quote:

---

lion and the other big cats I don't get it. It's trophy hunting I never understood it still don't.

---

Redneck blood lust. There really isn't an explanation other than arrogant pride.

quote:

---

Seems like people have totally lost sight of what this used to mean.

---

Simmer down, Rog. It was a joke. We know she isn't an Alabama cheerleader.

quote:

---

The hunters can't stop poaching completely, but they can reduce it through the money they pay to hunt and meat they provide. The money can help provide more resources for conservation efforts and the meat is a way to earn goodwill from the locals.

Money buys weapons and vehicles to patrol and gives villagers incentive not to decimate populations rather take a few and leave the rest to produce another crop.

If the locals understood that since they control the supply, the can charge whatever they want for it. So only harvesting a few a year would drive the price up of whatever they're selling, and they still get to collect the money for the hunt

---

money going to conservation is important, BUT what is really important is that the hunting fees place an economic value on the animals. For the locals, if they see a Cape Buffalo is valued at $1000 or an Elephant is valued at $10,000 they think about those animals as assets not as a nuisance to their crops.

If you ban hunting, then the value of the animal goes down and their is no incentive for conservation. See Kenya for an example of what happens when you ban hunting. Animal numbers in that that country have steadily dropped each year since hunting was banned in 1977.

See the graph below. Which country banned hunting in 1977 and which one allows hunting?

quote:

---

Damn, daddy must have some $.

---

that was the first thing I thought.

I would like to see the graph prior to 1973.

quote:

---

Good information right there. Go post that to OT thread

---

Could it be that it took them 10 years to ramp up enforcement efforts, after which the population started rebounding slowly?

I'm not sure what you were trying to say.