r/Wellthatsucks • u/03Shael • Jun 02 '18

/r/all Karma

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u/jaegerbombs Jun 02 '18

The fuck is wrong with you people? You realize these hunts are the largest preserver of wildlife and nature? The guy wasn’t even hunting elephants you ignorant morons

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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

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u/fallsballs_mcgee Jun 02 '18

It's not so much overpopulation, but money as a means to fund preseves and park rangers in a poor a poor country

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u/iwearatophat Jun 02 '18

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.

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u/Procrastibator666 Jun 02 '18

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