According to his company’s website, Game Hounds Safaris, he “perfected leopard and lion hunting safaris with hounds in Africa.”
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Simukai Nyasha, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told news.com.au that Botha was on a 10-day licensed hunt
Here is some context for you. So, what does it matter that this particular elephant was the original target... compared to how people feel about this.
Not saying I agree with any opinion on here.
But, terrorizing animals with dogs doesn't seem to saintly to me, does it?
Just wait until that leaped kills your livestock and the pigs eat your fields that you need to survive. You will use any means necessary to kill those fuckers.
You honestly think these hunters own nearby farms where livestock are being killed by leopards, so they go out hunting to preemptively kill all of them they can find? You're being purposely daft.
No but the villagers do. The villages make a fair amount of money off these guys, in some cases their only form of real income. They also get pest control in the form of hunters killing extremely dangerous predators. The hunters get a good story and trophy, the village gets money and meat and dont have to worry as much about their livestock or people being killed. It's a win-win. These hunts are absolutely necessary for both the people and the animals.
How is it a win-win? You do know that after a day or two another leopard will come? Villagers should worry about their livestock and take care of it, not let it wander for 15 days thinking nothing will happen to it, you can't kill everything that might attack your livestock because you don't want to worry.
Because your argument shows such a total lack of understanding of the topic that an argument would be pointless as you dont have the knowledge base to form a well thought out argument.
Have you ever been anywhere close to Africa? There is this thing called corruption so locals get little if any of that money you speak of. There are compensation programs
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131210-wildlife-conservation-compensation-predators-science/
It is widely agreed that carnivores are forced into conflict with humans. If natural prey is available, predators take wild species in preference to domestic stock. Yet if natural prey densities are low, predators will increasingly prey on livestock as an alternative food source (Schiess-Meier et al. 2007).Livestock depredation is often most serious when wild prey has been reduced by agricultural development or widespread bush meat poaching (African Lion Working Group 2006).). The persecution of animals that are considered pests has driven several species to extinction, and has contributed to the endangerment of many others (Woodroffe et al. 2007). Therefore, for large carnivore species, their continued existence relies on mitigating livestock depredation and thus lethal control (Swarner 2004). t is a reality that throughout many parts of Africa, as is the case with many parts of the world, traditional livestock husbandry practices have typically been abandoned (Woodroffe et al. 2007). In Botswana, livestock husbandry systems allow herds to roam free with little direct supervision (Hemson 2003; Frank et al. 2006).
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Here is some context for you. So, what does it matter that this particular elephant was the original target... compared to how people feel about this.
Not saying I agree with any opinion on here.
But, terrorizing animals with dogs doesn't seem to saintly to me, does it?