The most important thing that anti-hunters fail to recognize is that big dollar big game hunting is the only thing that gives economic value to Africa's large animals and thus any incentive to protect them in the long term.
To most Africans in the bush, an elephant is just a big monstrous beast that eats their crops and occasionally stomps somebody to death, while leopards and lions are just killers of cattle and sometimes people. With only these considerations in mind, the most logical path for Africans is to exterminate these animals (and perhaps sell the elephant ivory while they're at it).
Now enter big game hunting. You get some rich American who is willing to pay 100K or more to shoot an elephant. The local game warden picks out a problem elephant that's destroying crops or killing people, and rather than him shooting the elephant, he takes the rich American to shoot the elephant for him. That brings in 100K of revenue for the community. Suddenly, elephants are no longer just a crop pest, a threat, or a source of ivory, they're a huge source of revenue. The same applies to lions and leopards. So guess what - now the people who wanted to exterminate elephants now want to exterminate poachers to conserve the big geese laying the golden eggs.
Anti-hunters protesting deer hunting in America are equally ignorant. Without the economic value of deer hunting, deer just become a road hazard and a garden threat, so without hunting there's zero social incentive for conserving them or their habitats from development.
Leftist do-gooders and shrieking women of both sexes don't seem to recognize that the only way to preserve something is attaching economic value to it.
There's also HATING THE RICH...
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