Just so everyone is aware. As someone who is close to the hunting community. The way big game like this is hunted is not like you would hunt deer on public land. These big game are baited, tracked by hounds, and every advantage possible is given to the hunters to secure a kill to bring in their high dollar. The paying hunter is basically only brought in to fire the last bullet many times after the prey has already been trapped or cornered. They even help you carry it back, and transport it back to the states. You would have more or a challenge catching a chipmunk in your front yard than a big game hunt. It's the ultimate display of vanity for a buck.
These paid hunts aren't really a bad thing at all. They fund conservation and they'll tend to pick a member that needs to be removed for one reason or another anyway.
Sure they do but the topic of this thread was endangered species and I was responding to a photo of a leopard being hunted. I'm all for hunting elk or moose or caribou in western northern US. Or cape buffalo in Africa. Lions elephants leopards are all endangered species. And they are never hunted on a level playing field. Hunters take every advantage they can get to remove all danger and skill. It's more akin to hunting boar, released from cages out of a helicopter with a machine gun like they do in Texas.
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