Trophy Hunter Who Killed Lions, Elephants Shot Dead

New York Post ^ | July 4, 2022 | Sam Raskin

[nickcarraway]

An avid hunter of endangered animals was shot dead in South Africa after his truck broke down, according to new reports.

Riaan Naude, the 55-year-old head of Pro Hunt Africa, was found dead next to his vehicle in Marken Road, Limpopo. Cops said they have no motive yet.

Two hunting rifles were found in Naude’s car near the Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, local outlet Maroela Media reported June 9.

[semimojo]

Photo safaris provide about 10% of the game animal tourism industry.

In Africa? Where did you get that stat?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“It stuns me, the responses on this thread.”

Pretty standard social media behavior .
Mostly emotion led.
Little actual understanding of an issue

[DesertRhino]

You are uneducated on the topic. Texas department parks and wildlife has studied it extensively. Their biologists manage ranches herds on request of the landowners.
They specify what sex, which specific ones, and how many deer are taken. They want the trophy bucks taken after they have passed their genes on.
The ranches under trophy management have the best herds... by far.

You are driven by emotion and are uneducated on this.

[cbvanb]

I spend a fair amount of time in Africa. Do you have sources that contradict?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Tell that story to the villagers who get the meat from these trophy kills. Lions are a dime a dozen in Africa and they turn problematic at times. These hunters pay big bucks to eliminate them.

[semimojo]

I spend a fair amount of time in Africa. Do you have sources that contradict?

No, that’s why I asked for the source of your statistic.

I spent 6 weeks in Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia and Zambia last year and have been on safari in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe in the past.

I’ve seen a huge tourist infrastructure with lodges and camps of all types, guides, transportation, etc., all geared to non-hunting safaris. In fact, although I know they exist I never saw any businesses catering to hunters but saw many camps charging thousands of dollars per night for photo tourists.

I realize hunters spend much more per-capita, but it seems the number of photo tourists dwarfs the number of hunters.

Data seem hard to find but I came across this:

” The trophy hunting business runs in the millions – 2015/2016 US$341 million in South Africa* to US$1 million in Tanzania. However, it does not come close to the amounts generated by the tourist industry – 2016 US$27.3 billion in SA to US$2 billion in Tanzania**. Non hunting visitors therefore contribute vastly more to see animals alive then their trophy hunting counterparts. There is also no evidence that local communities are aided by these minimal contributions. In fact, a 2013 study shows they only receive 3% of gross paid hunting revenue.

“In Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, trophy hunting brings in just 0.78 percent or less of the overall tourism spending and has only a marginal impact on employment in those countries, providing approximately 0.76 percent or less of overall tourism jobs. The total economic contribution of trophy hunters is at most an estimated 0.03 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).”

I know this article is comparing trophy hunting with the overall tourism industry, and I also realize most articles about this topic are from people with an agenda so I take them all with a grain of salt.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

This story seems oddly familiar.

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