[Jagermonster]

About the bounties - I expect a bounty works for slow-breeding critters that are a lot of trouble to raise, but for fast-breeding critters, a bounty might make the problem worse.

The British tried this in India with cobras. 🐍🐍 Then the locals started to breed the cobras to collect the bounty. When the British got wise, they shut down the bounty program. The cobra breeders had no further use for the cobras, so they released them. The wild cobra population then increased because of the breeding program. This made the problem worse than it was before the bounty. 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍

This situation is the textbook case of the "Cobra Effect," Which is used to show unintended consequences of incorrect economic stimulus.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

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[Kickass Conservative]

The only answer to that kind of fraud is a Temporary Bounty only paying for full grown Animals.

[marktwain]

Of course, there are always secondary effects.

Nutria might be a problem, as they are fast breeders.

One possible aid is to limit the bounty to full carcasses in specified locations, leading to transportation difficulties for cheaters.