re: Outrage alert: White woman hunts a giraffe in Africa, so you know what happens next

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*no one is going to read this

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The folks hyperventilating about this haven't been reading the articles the whole time, why would they start now?

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Outrage alert: White woman hunts a giraffe in Africa, so you know what happens next

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She'll be stalked and harassed?

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Cowboy, I will say that the largest number of people I've been there with definitely had a "change of heart" after their first trip. It's not uncommon to hear hunters say......I just want to go back. Could care less if I actually hunt. If it's your thing, if hunting, tracking, camp life, camp fires, wildlife, seeing new cultures is your thing........it's hard to beat Africa.

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It still started with a desire to travel to Africa to shoot something.

I'm not even going to bother asking how many of those people had hunting as their primary reason for going, because I have no way of vetting that.

All I will say is your original statement was to "go ahead and consider that the only reason anyone would travel to Africa was to pull the trigger." Unless you know every one that's ever gone to Africa, you can't in good faith make that claim. Then again, you did cover your bases by throwing "only" in there.

But following that up with anecdotal stories about how you and your friends didn't go there with a primary purpose of hunting is being disingenuous.

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Certainly the trip doesn't cost as much if you're not actually hunting. Those animals all have a price on them, ranging from $200 - $200,000.

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Gotcha.

Maybe I'll be more specific then. If you're paying that kind of money and your posting pictures of your trophy online, you're probably an egomaniac.

Ok I see you are just dismissing what goes against your views.

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Ok I see you are just dismissing what goes against your views.

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Oh the irony.

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Ok I see you are just dismissing what goes against your views.

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Nah. I didn't just dismiss it. I read most of it.

It's argument was basically that trophy hunters are not doing as much as they say, and that is certainly believable.

But the way it casually dismisses poaching and habitat destruction as the main causes for the population declines, and ignores the positive impacts of trophy hunting on populations, poaching, and morale, tells me everything I need to know.

Did you read my link? The one actually using scientific studies and surveys for its references?

Awful

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“The giraffe I hunted was the South African sub-species of giraffe. The numbers of this sub-species is actually increasing due, in part, to hunters and conservation efforts paid for in large part by big game hunting. The breed is not rare in any way other than it was very old. Giraffes get darker with age,” said Talley, in an email to Fox News. She points out that the giraffe she killed was 18, too old to breed, and had killed three younger bulls who were able to breed, causing the herd’s population to decrease. Now, with the older giraffe dead, the younger bulls are able to continue to breed and can increase the population. “This is called conservation through game management,” says Talley, who insists hers was not a “canned” hunt.

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“The giraffe in the photo is of the South African species Giraffa giraffe, which are not rare – they are increasing in the wild,” Julian Fennessy, Ph.D., co-founder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Legal hunting of giraffe is not a reason for their decline, despite the moral and ethical side of it which is a different story.”

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This needs to keep being quoted for the ignorant soy boys on this site.

Cracks me up how liberally the word "hunt" gets thrown around. Riding a jeep out onto the African Savannah with a high powered rifle and blowing away a large, lumbering, grazing creature that pays you no mind isn't "hunting", it's just an act of douchery and an outlet for insecurities.