When you are on safari, you know what you are allowed to kill.
I wonder why people pay for guides, then.
Becasuse most African countries are dirt poor and it is desperately needed revenue. Furthermore, it pays for the real world, boots on the ground, conservation programs and personnel that protects the other animals - something all of the animal rights activists here and elsewhere do not do.
People pay for guides because they don’t know the country, where the animals are and their habits. Also foreign countries don’t let you just walk into their country and start hunting. The guide is supposed to know where to take you , they are guides after all. This is how those people make their living. You have to have a license from the government.
In our own country you have to have property leased from the owner. There is public land but I am not sure how you get permission to hunt there but I am sure you do.