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Trophy hunting controversy found on Craigslist.
< LittleDogComeHome > 2017-11-17 03:03 says, "An old male animal makes an impressive trophy and can't breed anyway. It will harm the younger, healthier members of the endangered species through aggressive attacks and ironically speed up the extinction process. The old fellow with massive horns, tusks, body size, antlers or manes is targeted and killed, through selective wildlife management, for the good of the whole species. These elderly males would die a horrible death in nature anyway if it weren't for deep-pocketed sportsmen with guns. The sport hunters generate the handsome revenues for game wardens to save a species from poachers by killing those old, non-reproductive but magnificent males. Makes perfect sense to me now that everything is explained."
< Catnipcomic1 > 2017-11-17 07:51, says, " I still don't see the need to kill for a trophy. Leaving the rest of the body to rot, disturbing the group dynamics of the local animals (many OLD animals are still functioning in their environment) and you know darn well no hunter goes for the old ones, they want the mature adult in the prime of life.
< britvic > 2017-11-17 10:16, says, " If you have to cull do it humanely, don't just give some limp dick a gun and let him possibly maim the animal and cause undue pain. Maybe they should be shot and their heads hung on the wall as a trophy."
< LittleDogComeHome > 2017-11-17 11:37, says, " well, the game wardens have to be paid and trophy hunt tags are a terrific revenue builder a single special trophy bull elephant tag could be sold for 1 million American dollars and there are the Forbes 500 types who would pay that in a heartbeat! game wardens are vital to protect an endangered species against poachers in sub-Saharan Africa you sure are not going to be able to collect taxes for wildlife management from a bunch of poor, tribal village people and rich people are not going to be generous with their wallets over in Safari-land unless there is something exciting to mount on the wall/ camera safaris sure don't generate the kinds of funds to protect animals/ the bottom line in protecting any species is MONEY"
< LittleDogComeHome > 2017-11-17 11:48, says, "the practical solution is to let the rich man with the gun cull the herd/the game regulations will specify which specimens can be taken, they won't permit young healthy animals to be taken under severe penalties/ an educated hunter will be able to field judge an animal to accurately determine its age, whether its past its prime for breeding/there may be a requirement for a game warden to be present to authorize the taking of a specific animal by the paying hunter with a game tag after the warden himself has judged the beast and gives the SHOOT or NO-SHOOT directive: the warden could also ensure the animal is taken humanely and not merely wounded: there might also be limitations on the types of guns and ammunition used and the hunter may have to pass an expert marksman test for the hunting privilege/ a hunter who has a peashooter of a gun will surely wound an elephant and make him angry: true elephant guns and bullets should be required for lawful elephant hunting"
breathe_first > 2017-11-17 12:38, says, "One has to wonder.... What is it that is so warped in someone's psyche that they become a "sport hunter"? What is it about killing a magnificent animal with the wits and cunning to survive to a ripe old age that makes that person feel good? In fact they enjoy it so much that they are willing to spend ungodly amounts of money to do so. I just don't get it - at all. Why not travel to the area, watch and appreciate the animal and donate the money to help protect it instead of buying the right to murder it?/ One good reason not to allow such things is that in many animal societies it is the older animals that lead the herd, know where food and water are in times of drought, help keep the social order intact so the younger ones don't kill each other off by fighting constantly, etc. These are just some of the many reasons that killing off the older males DOES damage the species as a whole - especially for those species that live in herds./
Killing them makes very little sense and causes more overall harm than good."
Yes, folks, now that I have studied this much more in depth, I really don't know what to think about hunting for trophy, especially an endangered species.
This is a confusing and controversial subject. I know if something were to overpopulate as deer, the logical thing to do is thin its herd with deer tags. It is a common meat animal
with not much chance of going extinct any time soon. If the meat hunter wants to mount the legal trophy buck's head on the wall, no harm done anyway as long as meat does not got to waste.
I would only want to harvest a doe if I were to have such a rare doe tag to legally do so. It is all about the meat quality with me, not about the rack point count and spread.
What is really BEST for the endangered SPECIES, all human soft-hearted emotions aside?
Just let Mother Nature take care of these rarer animals without man's intervention?
If the animal then were to become extinct, was it nature's will anyway?
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