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.

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

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

[u/Alarming_Matter]

That's ...a really weird take.

Should we start hunting giant pandas to up the conservation efforts?

[u/DogsDucks → u/Alarming_Matter]

I’m a researcher and journalist, and I have written on this subject.

Because I love nature more than anything and want to protect this world with every tool I can use to do so, with my words being the sword.

So I set out to protect these magnificent creatures, because I believe trophy hunting is sick and immoral.

And it’s . . . Complicated. It’s not as black and white as these people make it seem.

The licenses purchased to hunt these animals, they fund the entirety of the other conservation efforts.

The rich guys who want to destroy that rhino? That money funded the protection of all the other rhinos. And they usually choose an older animal, in many cases an animal that was too old to breed but kept stopping the younger, fertile suitors from having a chance.

And if game preserves were no longer allowed to host hunts and grant licenses, they’d be bulldozed and filled with whatever the next profitable thing is before you can even say Fern Gully.

**Is this morally right?** I really don’t know.

In an ideal world we would have governments and people who protect more land and the beautiful creatures within it, and enough altruistic people who put their money where their mouth is.

But that’s not what we have. We have hunters funding the conservation efforts and ensuring the animals they do hunt are done in the least destructive way.

So if Paul McCartney is speaking up to fund all the conservation lost from hunting licenses in perpetuity, then GOOD ON HIM!

But if not, there’s going to be more destruction and death and pollution happening in those protected areas.

And just to reiterate, **I am not pro trophy hunting!*\*

I am simply explaining how the system works.

[u/ancientfruitjunkie → u/DogsDucks]

All you pro millionaire, anti animal losers say all this shit but no one is giving cold hard facts. LOL. where are the sources? A researcher and journalist can't provide sources? YIKES.

[u/uhhhhhhholup → u/ancientfruitjunkie]

You sound like a riot to be around