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GamebredPitbull 7 points ago +7 / -0

you should educate yourself on how hundreds of species would go EXTINCT without the millions of dollars raised by these private hunting grounds that directly go into wild conservation.

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p8riot -1 points ago +2 / -3

Sounds like bullshit PR. Let's let people hunt animals, to save money so that we can save animals? Wild conservation is leaving them the fuck alone.

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GamebredPitbull 5 points ago +5 / -0

again, you should go educate yourself before making misleading posts. Leaving wildlife alone works in a FANTASY world. The reality is that poachers won't leave them alone and will hunt them into extinction, especially those dumb fucks in China where they think Rhino horn will help them get their dicks hard. Also, people are starving in Africa, so they will kill to eat irrespective of how on-the-brink an animal is.

The private hunting grounds PROTECT, BREED and REINTRODUCE endangered wildlife that would otherwise go extinct. NONE OF THE MEAT GOES TO WASTE! Meat is donated to tribes and villages where every last bit of the animal is utilized.

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p8riot 1 point ago +1 / -0

people are starving in Africa, so they will kill to eat irrespective of how on-the-brink an animal is

I follow everything else in your post except this part. Wouldn't this happen in any third world place where food is scarce? Is that morally un-justified to feed yourself in any way possible?

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2820928 2 points ago +2 / -0

Say you got some forest and Jungle with endangered prey, common prey and common predator - leave it wild and the endangered prey is likely to go extinct from the common predator and poachers, manage it as a hunting ground and the money is taxed and used to fund preservation efforts - stopping poachers who hunt young+out of season, keeping the ecosystem alive and preventing it from being sold as timber/new farmland.

Paradoxically to what you'd think, hunters are the biggest force for ecological preservation and keeping wild game - if species went extinct they'd have nothing to hunt!

I'm not a hunter myself but am a man of many interests - conspiracies, nature, Christianity, music, populism/FuckNWO/CCP, etc. so know a little about it.

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p8riot 2 points ago +2 / -0

Hunters aren't typically doing it for food, so is the idea that they hunt more of the surplus predators, who aren't typically favored in diet?

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2820928 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sometimes that is the case, it's a better trophy IMO.

Other times there is an over-abundance of prey who need culling in order to preserve the foliage, due to a shortage of natural predators. If this wasn't done then the prey would make certain ferns and stuff go extinct, but mainly just eat all the food - then starve and die. If that happened there wouldn't be enough carrions - though the carrions there is would Feast and both the uneaten rotten carcasses and the endemic carrions may spread disease to rangers, hikers, and hunters.

Also, an ecosystem having mass die-off from starvation and seeing dead carcasses everywhere wouldn't be great to look at and isn't the most environmentally friendly thing (plant/grass growth takes Co2 out of the atmosphere and decay releases methane).

Ecological management is a complex issue and isn't as simple as the leftist media has made everyone think it is.

Even 'trophy hunting' isn't as unethical as we're made to think - it supports carrions, foxes, wolves, etc. and also ecosystem management through fees during hunting season (same as fish season, they only kill a specified type/amount/age of animal), and those guys who work at stuffing animals and making rugs and stuff - there's skilled labourers dependant on hunters for their livelihood and it cuts down on fake Chinese fur imports.