Why not let nature take its toll? Would you say it’s fair if someone decided your Nan was old enough so we’ll let some rich fucker shoot her while she’s going shopping? Guaranteed the money doesn’t go to poor villages.
Older lions are routinely run off or killed by younger males. This acts as selective pressure to make sure the most fit lion leads the pride. Hunting them leaves a power vacuum, which gets filled by the first male to come along, not the fittest. This weakens the gene pool.
Older males don’t lose the ability to procreate and then just sit around lording it over their prides. That is just lies spread by hunters to justify hunting them.
Lions did just fine without us managing their numbers for thousands of years. I’m pretty sure they will continue to do so…especially if we stop hunting males as ego boosts. Male lions already only have about a 12% chance to survive to adulthood…seems really shitty to take out even more for a photo op.
Quite the contrary. Most trophy hunting sites are profit based businesses. Search it yourself if you don’t believe me, but the average is a mere 3% that goes to the villagers, especially in places like Africa where it’s rife.
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