Interesting article.
Puts things into perspective. Still don't understand the urge to kill animals for fun, but if it's to be done it's better to have people paying stupid money that helps conservation than illegal poachers.
Someone on another site I frequent was spouting off about how if it wasn't for trophy hunters then these animals would have all been poached for Chinese medicine and there would no lions, elephants or rhino left.
There was another article rubbishing the notion that trophy hunting has any positive impact of endangered wildlife.
I mean what do most people know? We have to rely on what we're told and one side are saying it's terrible and immoral and has no benefit to animal numbers in the wild and others who are pro hunting say that they are conservationists who are saving these animals by paying to kill them because if there's a price on these animals heads then they're worth protecting.
Fuck knows....but I'm sorry - whatever propaganda people want to use, paying a shitload of money to travel around the world slaughtering wild animals and chopping their heads off and sticking them on your wall is absolutely and without a doubt fucked up.
I know it's an extreme example but it's like Lord so and so who likes fucking kids in children's homes, so he pays the home say £50k to go and do just that...I mean the home gets funded, most of the kids are fine and they're well fed and the home can continue long into the future so it's win-win right, only one kid?
There is no justification for what this dentist fucking scum prick did, none.
No amount of mental gymnastics and propaganda and BS will make what he did ok.
Grrrrrr
How and why are people still allowed to do this, legally, in the 21st century, to at risk and endangered animals ?
The privileged/rich really do live in their own world and by their own rules and laws.