Friday, April 6, 2018

Can Trophy Hunting help with Conservation


Trophy hunting has a bad name for itself when it comes to society today. There is a lot of controversy around the topic of trophy hunting. Trophy is not a bad thing because it is also used as a conservation tool to help manage animal species in places like Africa. In Africa many trophy hunters pay big money to go hunt big game such as lion, elements, hippos, and cape buffalo. But many people think they just go and shoot whatever animal they want and just take the horn, tusk, or heads and let the rest rot there. But in reality trophy hunters can hunt only animals that the government allows them to hunt which is usually problem animals. Usually they harvest animals that kill their own or are older and need to be put down. And the money they pay to go on the hunt most oft goes back to helping to conserve the animals they hunt. Without the trophy hunters paying for hunts they wouldn't have much money to pay for conservation efforts. Trophy hunter pay millions a year to go hunt animals in Africa which helps pay for protection over animals like black rhino which are in danger. trophy hunters are a big tool in conservation and need to help keep animals be conserved.

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  1. it breaks my heart to see pictures like this, and for what? a trophy yo put on yoour nightstand??? I feel like its our job to help preserve wildlife and ding things like this arent helping!

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