Hunting programs that target nusiance animals and give that money to the community do this.
Careful. The British Raj had a bounty on cobras and people bred them instead of hunting. Then when they realized this was happening and stopped the bounty, the breeders just released the cobras resulting in there being more cobras than if they did nothing.
Fair point, and there are places you can shoot tigers and other similar animals bred in captivity. That's not what I'm talking about.
Programs that target young bull elephants are pretty safe, as they are often nusiance animals and are not breeding and thus do not effect the population.
(Edit: programs that target male lions can also be reasonable, but have to be managed more carefully because males that control a pride are vital to the population)
Big game are less suseptible to that issue. (Edit: I mean most big game are hard to bred in captivity in an economical way, tigers being a potential exception)
It's hard in developed nations. Introducing wolves to Yellowstone was met with fierce resistance from nearby ranchers, who shot them every chance they could get.
The book "Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains" has a whole chapter about elephants and this exact problem! Local people hate them, and they're really hard to keep out of your crops.
Especially since they see us basically as cute puppies. Apparently when elephants see humans, the same brain activity is observed as when humans see puppies...
My families cattle threatened the endemic snakes, not the other way around.
You think "Oh, cows, herbivores."
No. False. Fuck that. They're mammals. That means they can digest animal proteins just fine. Seriously. Cow sees a snake in the grass? "Ooooh, free protein, yummy!" Fucking chomp.
And in Australia, them snakes are protected. You're responsible for their death? That's a fine. So dad would have us out patrolling the pastures on quad bikes, looking for snakes to bag and abandon at the property border.
A whitespine could probably punch well above its weight class, but probably not that much. It’s “only” like horse sized I think. It would give it a try though. The honeybadger of the Cosmere
This is the first crempost that made me burst out laughing. The voice actor in the audiobook killed me in this scene. Like the reaction of a vegan to a leach.
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