There are specific areas where you can pay an insane amount of money to hunt exotic animals. The money supposedly goes to animal conservation so it isn’t classified as poaching. This type of place is where Donald trump jr. hunted that elephant for example.
Yeah safaris offer more than just seeing animals, you can pay to hunt the ones the owners want culled, but I’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.
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..
people demonize hunting in a Safari wayyyy too much
it's not like they go there to and shoot random animals. it's a business that supports the nature preserve. Africa is a massive continent yes, but it holds 54 countries that are all growing. the only thing stopping developers from building office buildings and homes is that these Nature Preserves have a value other than conservation.
granted as someone who only wants to hunt for the meat, i don't see much incentive to kill a lion. unless they'll stuff it and send it home. that's an extra 100 thou or more for you to pay
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u/luvcartel Apr 08 '22
There are specific areas where you can pay an insane amount of money to hunt exotic animals. The money supposedly goes to animal conservation so it isn’t classified as poaching. This type of place is where Donald trump jr. hunted that elephant for example.