So, we have to destroy the village to save it. Hmm. The 1970s called, and ...
“So, we have to destroy the village to save it. Hmm.”
Nope. Sport hunting is what has saved habitat and wildlife populations all over the world, but particularily in the United States.
Sport hunting preserves animal populations, because you cannot have sport hunting without the animals to hunt.
No, we have to make the village valuable in order to save it. The “village,” in this case, being a dangerous, vicious creature (from the POV not only on the wild animals it kills and eats, but also from the POV of the local people - not that anyone worries about them - and their livestock. And the only way to make a lion valuable enough is to charge $50,000 for a license to kill it - and protect the purchaser of said license politically in order to sustain your market.This article makes the point that black bears aren’t endangerd in CA even tho they are hunted, and have about the same numbers as African lions. Least of all are chickens on the endangered species list, even though, and precisely because, we kill and eat almost all of them.