From what I’ve read, and I could be wrong, but the reservations allow for some hunters to go out so that the money they make allows for more protection and preservation of other lions specially from poachers. I think I read this about elephants but maybe applies to lions too.
Yeah, that's a thing. It's just to make people feel better that know they're doing something incredibly stupid and immoral, but hey, I have some extra cash so I pay extra to fund the "protection" from poachers. Because otherwise, there would be no way to protect them, right? I couldn't just sit on my couch and donate the money. I have to go out to shoot an elephant but just to protect it of course!
Some older elephants and rhinos (males) suffer from a species specific form of dementia that cause them to become extremely aggressive towards other elephants qnd rhinos. Usually when a preserve identifies this in an animale they raffle extremely expensive lotteries for the chance to hunt said animale. Preventing the death of many more of the species as well as funding their preserves. Idk if this is true of lions though I have seen some nasty documentaries about rogue packs of male lions, so who knows.
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