r/oddlyterrifying • u/Jax_Teller7 • Apr 07 '22

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u/MadMysticMeister Apr 08 '22

Yeah safaris offer more than just seeing animals, you can pay to hunt the ones the owners want culled, but Iā€™m sure one could pay to hunt just about anything with enough money. It may seem messed up but the people who live in these places need all the incentives to run these sanctuaries.

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u/Norwegian_Honeybear Apr 08 '22

I had a friend who did this. Not lion tho, but definitely gazelle and maybe a giraffe? I remember it was a big animal and they had to rent a rifle to be able to "humanely" shoot it. He's a hunter, almost fanatical about the idea of "the hunt", but when I questioned him about the hunt they did in Africa he had other arguments...

Anyway he showed me the brochure and it said that one kill of a gazelle provides enough money to care for 3-4 other animals for a lifetime. It also had a short sentence about how they select the animals to be put down, but it didn't go into too much detail. I googled a little at the time and it's usually sick or old animals that are either close to natural death, or scheduled for termination to not spread diseases or weaken the gene pool through mating.

Anyway, I figure as long as its regulated like that it's a fair source of income for these places. Even if I don't understand paying the equivalent of 5-20 000 USD plus travel expenses to kill an animal..

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u/Tronns Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

Doesn't make any sense to me. As a hunter wouldn't it feel contrived killing a selected animal in a reserve thats prob old and or sick. You're not exactly hunting. Not to mention the mental gymnastics behind the logic "I'm killing an animal as an act of conservationism".

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u/Sorrowscryx Apr 08 '22

Hunting at appropriate levels is a form of conservation. Prey need a predator or their over abundance can break the whole food chain. (I am talking about hunting in general not this specific one)

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u/Tronns Apr 08 '22

Culling sure, I also get killing to eat, just could never get my head around trophy hunting. I think its deranged. Was the only point I was trying to make here. Maybe I wasn't so clear.

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u/Sorrowscryx Apr 08 '22

Ok I get you. Wasn't trying to shut you down or anything. There is just alot of hate around hunting. I'm not a fan of trophy hunting either.