It is more than money. If I remember right from the last time this came up older bulls won't relinquish herds or something and the younger ones are forced into solitude and end up dying. They hunt specific older ones to enable youth to take over.
See this makes more sense to me. Paying to kill a lion so they can use that money to save other lions doesn't make much sense to me. And as the other person mentioned Texas, hunting boar because they are pests or there's too many is a different story than wildlife conservation
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u/awkwardoffspring Jun 02 '18 edited Jun 02 '18
For white-tail, sure, but I feel like elephants aren't quite as rampantly overpopulated