by ∘Raven∘ » Mon May 28, 2018 3:21 am
I'll echo what I said in the original topic.
I've been to Africa multiple times, and I've seen what happens when hunting isn't allowed. On the border of the two countries I was visiting, one side was lush and green with lots of wildlife.
The other side was absolutely stripped bare, there were dead and dying elephants that had starved to death. Why? Because hunting wasn't allowed. The other side had hunting in very carefully controlled amounts. Just about every penny in conservation is from hunters, and many species would be extinct without them, including a gorgeous species of Oryx called the Scimitar Horned Oryx. Cheetahs used to be allowed into the US as trophies, but now it's illegal. And guess what's happened? The cheetah has 0 value to the locals that live in the villages, so they kill the cheetahs on sight now. And don't do anything with them. That's the only reason the cheetah population has plummeted. I'm around this stuff almost everyday, so I actually have experience in what I'm talking about. I can't stress how important this is.
And yes, I do hunt. But not for pleasure. We eat everything we hunt, and it's a lot healthier for you than beef/chicken that's often times raised with antibiotics and things they would never touch in the wild.
Kindness costs you nothing.