After this kind of attention... I think that it is safe to say that there are not going to be a lot of other people spending their money on this type of vacation. Say goodbye to some desperately needed tourist cash.
You’re only partially correct. The tourist cash is minimal by comparison. The majority of the cost of an African hunt is in the cost of “trophy” fees, which run in the tens of thousands of dollars. For the so-called Big Five - elephants, lions, leopards, cape buffalo and hippos - the cost is even greater and that money goes to support wildlife management like anti-poaching programs and habitat management. Were it not for foreign hunters, Africa’s wildlife populations would be in a far, far worse state.