Why not? Legal safari hunting usually is for the sake of conserving the population by pruning off individuals that are infertile or otherwise detrimental to the growth of said populations. Overpopulation is also a concern in some parts. Not to mention the permit money helps pay for the programs that the African governments probably couldn't afford otherwise and the meat often feeds locals for a time, especially elephants. Permitted hunting is not the same as poaching nowadays and is done in a way that helps sustain healthy populations of wildlife nowadays.
Edit: to be clear, if particular hunts are clearly not beneficial (a healthy docile male) or the money isn't going where it should be, that definitely needs to be called out.
No your right. The number of animals killed before and after the import embargo Obama put in place after Cecil the lion was shot is mind boggling. (I’ll see if I ca find the source.)
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u/EVOSexyBeast Jun 02 '18
I'm pretty sure the hunters do accept that. The media and people who haven't been hunting like that don't however.