re: Trophy hunter shot dead while trying to bag his second lion

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This. In 1950 there were 250,000 lions on earth. Today that number is only 14,000.

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Mostly due to poachers, which is where your anger should be directed.

And poaching efforts are now greatly reduced because local communities have a huge financial incentive to stop it because of the value of these trophy hunts (which, again, are culled hunts not just killing a random animal. They are chosen as needing to be removed for the health of the overall population).

The trophy hunting makes the animal, cost wise, worth saving for these improverished areas to keep the poachers out and increase the species. Without them, the animals would just be left on their own nd poachers will pick them off with ease

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One can donate money and not kill the endangered animals,

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Donated money goes to people, not conservation. Corrupt Africans and "non profit" businessmen.

Hunting does more to promote conservation that anything else, and the locals benefit.

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The guy was hunting farm-raised Lions to shoot that's a little weird

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Some sick tards out there!

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I hope it was on purpose. No reason to shoot something just to hang it on your wall.

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solid bait ol chap

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Farm raising lions to kill is fricking bullshite. If you want to donate money to saving lions, donate money. Don’t mask your insecure need to kill a fenced in and farm raised trophy as some great deed for the betterment of the world. Eta: Obviously a wild infertile lion that is harming the species is different

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Within the farm, they are still going to pick and choose which animals to cull that season to protect the population.

And what’s your solution if the farm doesn’t have enough funds to operate from just donations? That’s the issue, is they don’t.

Whether you like it or not (and I’ve never hunted a day in my life), providing hunts is one of the most valuable ways to raise conservation funds and give a monetary reason to protect animals. That someone will pay $XX,000 to hunt an animal gives it direct value and makes it worth protecting and ensuring it breeds and the species doesn’t go extinct

Having just park service rangers working on local government salaries in these corrupt Aftrican shitholes doesnt protect the animals, that’s what lead to the poaching that put the populations in the danger they are in.

I’ve never been a hunter and not a particular big fan of guns but I know where the meat my family and I eat comes from and how the process works. With that said at the end of the day a human life is worth more than that of a lion, utter stupidity on both sides.

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And what’s your solution if the farm doesn’t have enough funds to operate from just donations? That’s the issue, is they don’t.

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If every insecure hunter donated without killing they’d be fine. Why do they want to kill lions?

I don’t fault the locals. They’re doing what they have to do.

It really is amazing how these animals survived and thrived in Africa for a thousand years before these heroic hunters saved them by killing them.

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I understand douche bags get off on killing big game with powerful guns and that’ll never change.

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really is amazing how these animals survived and thrived in Africa for a thousand years before shithole African poachers trapped/killed them to sell on the black market and almost made them extinct.

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Fixed it for you.

Again hunters are not the ones threatening these animals. Poachers are.

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Fixed it for you. Again hunters are not the ones threatening these animals. Poachers are.

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Never argued otherwise.

I just wish the world was a place where these “hunters” would just donate the money without killing lions. But I get that will never be the case because 99% of them don’t give AF about saving lions, they’re just rich and want to kill something big.

They’re still douche bags.

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I’m fine with baw getting shot. Deer, ducks, etc are one thing but a trophy means you’re a fricking douche-chode with some sort of inner inferiority complex... Usually low IQ types...

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Low IQ types? Like people who speak out of ignorance? Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc., heavily advertise and cater to trophy hunters for several reasons. First, a single trophy license alone can generate more desperately needed revenue that several dozen tourists will bring them during an entire vacation. It brings in nearly a billion dollars yearly to some poverty stricken, depressed countries. The hunters can be required to leave the meat which feeds native citizens who would otherwise have to hunt and kill the animals themselves. Impala, buffalo, elephant, sable, lion, and other large game is eaten by people there...from poor to royalty.

I do not want to see mindless killing of any animal but I feel it's best to check my own IQ before saying stupid things about the ways of cultures that I may not understand. I do not pretend to know that other injustices do not occur but I'd want to be very sure of what I'm speaking of before advocating the murder of people in situations I'm not certain about.