Africas Conservation Conundrum

[Selous]

This article was posted on another forum and is an excellent and well balanced view on the trophy hunting which is nice to see for once. Definitely worth a read if you have 15 minutes or so.

Africa's Conservation Conundrum - bioGraphic

The trophy hunting industry in Africa is dying, and that should concern all of us. What, if anything, replaces it will prove critical for the protection of the continent’s wildlife and wild places.

www.biographic.com

 

[Sika98k]

This article was posted on another forum and is an excellent and well balanced view on the trophy hunting which is nice to see for once. Definitely worth a read if you have 15 minutes or so.

Africa's Conservation Conundrum - bioGraphic

The trophy hunting industry in Africa is dying, and that should concern all of us. What, if anything, replaces it will prove critical for the protection of the continent’s wildlife and wild places.

www.biographic.com

Good read that.

 

[starr shot]

Good read indeed,but I can’t see it changing the minds of likes of Ricky Gervais .

 

[Selous]

Good read indeed,but I can’t see it changing the minds of likes of Ricky Gervais .

No it won’t because he has openly said he cares for the individual animals more than the population. Once someone has that mindset then it is almost impossible for them to accept the wider benefits of managed populations.

 

[bowji john]

The author refers to hunters alongside their quarry as ‘grinning idiots’

The real grinning idiots are the politicians, loveys and social media activists who are either too ignorant or too self interested to address the topic honestly

 

[NullMac]

Well I hunt and I don't like the 'grinning idiots' pics either. For a variety of reasons

 

[Tazz]

This article was posted on another forum and is an excellent and well balanced view on the trophy hunting which is nice to see for once. Definitely worth a read if you have 15 minutes or so.

Africa's Conservation Conundrum - bioGraphic

The trophy hunting industry in Africa is dying, and that should concern all of us. What, if anything, replaces it will prove critical for the protection of the continent’s wildlife and wild places.

www.biographic.com

Very good article with balance and facts supported by interviews. I have been fortunate enough to hunt in SA and Namibia, in summary if animals have a value then they have a future, the alternative is £? a Kilo mainly poached

 

[Scotty99]

No it won’t because he has openly said he cares for the individual animals more than the population. Once someone has that mindset then it is almost impossible for them to accept the wider benefits of managed populations.

That is the real problem. Most of these celebrity ”conservationists” suffer from what I call Bambi-ism Their focus is entirely on the individual animal that is shot and their hearts bleed for that single animal. They are incapable of pulling the lens back and looking at why individual animals need to be shot in order to benefit the wider animal population and landscape. As you say until that very blinkered and limited view point is widened we can’t get anywhere with these people.

No doubt in future years once African hunting is no more and the general wildlife population has crashed never to recover, these Bambi-ists will absolve themselves of any guilt or responsibility by blaming it on climate change or modern farming practices causing habitat change / loss. They will never admit that they were wrong and that it is the demise of hunting and the loss of revenue and associated game herd and landscape protection that it is the real cause.

 

[HonestJohn]

I believe this all goes a lot deeper than it appears on the surface. Sure, some outfitters will have suffered and folded due to covid, recession and trophy import bans..however, many African, Eastern, M.E, S.E.A, China, S. American countries are ruled by corruption. China is looking to take over the african continent gradually, they need the resources, oil, minerals, land to grow food, etc. their own country is at breaking point. It is likely many of these hunting conservations are being asked to move to 'photography tourism', not due to pressures by activists and anti-hunting groups, but due to corruption payments made by China in order to slowly break the countries economies up, create instability, poverty, and barren lands - then they can eventually offer a buyout of land to the corrupt government, and gradually move in.

call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but I think this goes a lot deeper down the rabbit hole than most people think.

 

[Selous]

I think the majority of hunting concessions are quite unsuitable for photo tourism due to low game densities, Tsetse flies and being relatively bland barren scrubland. I suspect the Chinese may have their eyes on a prize but I’m not sure that tourism plays much of a role whether it be for hunting or photography. Mineral wealth and energy… yes for sure!

 

[Selous]

Well I hunt and I don't like the 'grinning idiots' pics either. For a variety of reasons

I know what you mean. They portray the activity in a poor manner to the majority of the population.