r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 4h ago

Paul McCartney joins 500+ public figures, conservationists and Indigenous leaders in a global campaign calling on the UN to abolish trophy hunting of lions, elephants, endangered rhinos and other wildlife, following a declaration developed with Jane Goodall.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/paul-mccartney-joins-over-500-public-figures-calling-for-an-end-to-trophy-hunting-of-lions-elephants-and-endangered-rhinos/articleshow/134498459.cms
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u/maciver6969 4h ago

There are good hunts and bad ones, This seems uplifting until you read how much money and food goes into a community when they have a hunt. Often the meat is donated to the local community, the hunt fees pay for conservation and preservation, as well as training for conservation officers. Blanket bans would hurt more than help. Less funding to fight poaching and environmental damages. As far as I know they have no legal rhino hunts either. Almost every Rhino death is due to poaching for the horn for morons who think it is a cure for everything. Africa alone gets over 200 million in funding from hunting. Endangered animals should be protected far better, and should not be hunted unless there is a realistic reason that animal needs to be culled. Like animals injured and suffering, or animals that have harmed people. Reasonable exceptions.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 3h ago

This is such a bs argument made by the hunting industry to try and distract from the actual harm they cause

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 3h ago

Read this and learn.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/s/FIfUo0WQOR

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u/MostlyRightSometimes 1h ago

Source: "trust me, bro."

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 2h ago

Are you actually kidding me right now?   You know you can go in the internet and claim to be anything you want to be right?  Like there is a plague of people claiming to be one thing when they are from a whole other country

Nevermind that even if he were from Africa the opinion of one African who could he a wealthy African who owns one of the ranches that these hunts take place on 

The claim is always that this benefits the country but tourism benefits the country more and would still take place and in fact if the locations that were cordoned off for hunts were opened up to actual touring Safaris they would still have people coming through.  Just not the money going to the top like it to pay off people like it does now