Canned Hunting - Pure Evil or Genuine Conservation Efforts?
Canned hunting is the shooting of wild animals in a confined area where they have no chance to escape. This most commonly takes place in Africa and North America where you can pay a large sum of money to shoot your trophy and take it home with you.
Bullet Safaris is a large organisation that offers clients the opportunity to hunt almost any wild animal in Africa. After receiving an overwhelming amount of abuse on their Facebook page, it was surprising to read their response - "Due to the extraordinary interest of anti-hunters and other uninformed Facebook users on my site I have constructed the following response: Get a grip and attempt to defend a cause that you can at least understand. I hope that anti-hunting is not your only area of interest as you are uninformed and ignorant of what my company does and hunting as a whole. Hunters actually promote conservation and put hundreds of thousands of dollar towards it - as hunters - out of our pockets. How much money and time have you and the rest of the anti-everything people put towards a cause out of your own pocket? Please educate yourself and stop embarrassing yourself in the public realm, i.e. my page on Facebook.”
So… supposedly this is what conservation looks like?
A new article was posted this week showing the true economics of trophy hunting. It shows that canned hunts are adding to the extinction of the lion before adding to conservation -
http://www.khou.com/community/blogs/animal-attraction/Animal-Attraction---212457351.html
We all know about the Rhino poaching crisis that we are currently facing, however you may not be aware that rich hunters are legally murdering rhinos for fun. The hunters claim to be helping conservation with the money they pay to kill these rhinos, this is the information they are being fed by the hunting organisations. The rhino is already endangered and trophy hunting is just adding to the rhino's extinction.
Here is a report from a witness of a canned lion hunt - Bruce Hamilton: 'The lioness had three cubs. We took her out of the camp that morning into a hundred hectare enclosure, which was not legal. And she was still running up and down the fence. She wouldn't leave her cubs, even though bait was used to try and lure her away from the fences so that the hunter wouldn't see the fences and be caught up in the illusion. Even though she wouldn't leave the fences, he still shot her. He could see the cubs on the other side of the fence, but that didn't bother [them]. Even when the lioness was skinned and the milk was pouring out of her teats, it didn't bother the hunter or the professional hunter that she was still producing milk for those cubs, and now they didn't have a mother.'
Please can someone explain to me how this helps conservation?
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering or death to another sentient being for human pleasure is the most arrogant and distasteful concepts in all of human thought.