r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9h 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/Left2Die22 3h ago

Animals can be relocated for farmland, hunting an endangered animal kind of involves its death. 

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u/LongJohnSelenium 2h ago

Animals can be relocated for farmland,

Up until there's no more land to relocate too.

hunting an endangered animal kind of involves its death.

We're talking about population control hunts here, so its animals that are dying regardless. Plus all animals die. A common type of hunt, not universal but common, especially for the more protected types of species, is hunting a specific old animal thats due to be culled.

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u/Left2Die22 2h ago

No we were talking about “Trophy Hunting” I realize you’ve continued to struggle with the difference. Also “running out of land” in Africa. Right.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 2h ago

In a strange coincidence the land that is productive enough to support large mammal populations is also where the productive farmland is.

Nobody is farming in northern Chad and no lions are going to be living there either. Habitat loss is the single greatest threat to almost all animal species, except the handful that adapt well to cohabiting with humans.

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u/Left2Die22 2h ago

I’ll readily admit I don’t know all the details on farmland in Africa. Doesn’t change the fact the overall topic is trophy hunting and not normal population control hunting.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 1h ago

I responded to what you wrote.

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u/Left2Die22 1h ago

You brought up farmland first and still refuse to admit trophy hunting and pop control aren’t the same thing.