re: Animal rights campaigners outragedover cheerleader hunting pics

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I don't like a high fence either, but they are the only reason the scimitar horned oryx isn't extinct.

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You can put that fun fact in your back pocket for when you encounter an anti-hunter who thinks all hunters do is kill without conservation in mind.

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But the reason it is extinct in the wild is because of over-hunting without any management. Your logic has a hole.

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over-hunting without any management. Your logic has a hole.

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Over hunted by who? Those that do not care that it's extinct, ie poachers?

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over-hunting without any management

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Unmanaged hunting without conservation in mind put a lot of animals in danger. Once people started to realize that unregulated hunting wasn't sustainable, that's when conservation started. Total prohibition, like has been seen in many areas, always leads to the black market, which is why regulated hunting is a key part of the conservation puzzle.

The animal products are still created but harvested in a way that is safer and more profitable for everyone involved.

As to the high fence Oryx in Texas, they thrive there because of management of the population through hunting. They still sell hunts, and increase the population. Anti-hunter conservation groups have tried to shut them down repeatedly. How logical is it to confiscate an entire animal population in the name of conservation to put it in the wild where they have shown the inability to sustain their population even in the absence of hunting, rather than leave them where they are thriving.

Would marry

I see no problem with what she is doing.

I'm curious by some of the comments here (but not disagreeing)... I get a lot of what people are saying about modern hunters helping conserve populations, but how does that keep poachers from doing what they do just because there are legal, conservation-minded hunters?

It seems like there'd still be a supply shortage of what the poachers were trying to provide, so there'd still be market incentive for them to keep poaching. It's not like all of them can become guides.

Honestly just curious, I'm sure someone can explain it to me

There is nothing wrong with what she did- just not a good idea to tell the world.

I've always said I would only hunt what I would/will eat. However after seeing that badass lion head hoodie, I may have to make a one time exception. I would wear that sumbitch everywhere.

These people saying "they only hunt for meat" I sometime wonder how they feel about catch and release fishing.

Granted its a little different, but you're still catching a fish for no reason other than entertainment. All these hunters saying it's wrong to kill something you aren't going to eat and that's it's just for entertainment. I'm not arguing against catch and release, just hypocrisy.