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African Countries Say US Airline’s Trophy Ban Will Cause “The End of Conservation”
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"Hunting in Africa is big business. The African countries depend on hunters, willing to pay extravagant tag fees to the government and spend many thousands of dollars in the local economy, to fund their conservation efforts that preserve and protect these beautiful animals from poachers and extinction. Earlier this week Delta, United, and American Airlines all announced that they will no longer allow the shipment of hunting trophies on their flights. While the reaction from Americans was one of support, the African governments who actually understand the situation are saying that this PR stunt might be single-handedly responsible for eliminating any remaining conservation efforts for these animals." ... |
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Millwright66
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| Trophy hunting has long been the driving force preserving game animals in Africa. For most rural Africans, I suspect the apex predators and large herbivores present both physical and economic threats they address by whatever means they have to hand. Only by making these "threats" more valuable alive than dead preserve them. And the added benefit from hunting is meat for villagers to share. A litany of writers have documented how quickly even very large animals are butchered and carried away. The hunter paying the high fees gets only the inedible "trophy" parts. Try charging photo-only safari tourists similar fees for every game animal they "shoot" and see what happens ! |
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