Posted on 04/01/2018 2:13:58 PM PDT by marktwain
Commercial hunters are the stuff of legend. Scottish Karamojo Bell harvested elephants for ivory in Africa at the turn of the century. American Billy Dixon made the famed long shot with a buffalo rifle to stop the attack on Adobe Walls. Norwegian Per Jonsson harvested 165 polar bears on Halfmoon Island near Svalbard, Norway, in two years in 1969-71.
Increasing human populations and agriculture have reduced the potential for commercial hunting. Australia is a place where commercial hunters survive. Australia is a continent as big as the lower 48 states, with a human population smaller than Texas. Australia has game populations that must be controlled to prevent starvation and environmental degradation. Australia exports hundreds of millions of dollars of meat and hides a year, harvested by commercial Australian hunters. Kangaroo hunters are being driven out of business by over-regulation driven by animal rights activists.
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“Harvesting” polar bears?
Killing elephants for their tusks?
Sorry, I find nothing to admire.
Wild game and feral game...
Wild game includes red and grey kangaroos and salt water crocodiles.
Feral game include water buffalo and camels.
Yes, camels!
But no profit in feral cats, foxes and rabbits.
I agree. Leave these types of “hunting” for the past.
The elephants were all killed over 100 years ago when over hunting and poaching wasn’t a problem.
It was in the past. The elephant hunts were over 100 years ago.
In North America, White Tails should be opened for commercial hunting. Lord knows there are more than enough.
Adept hunters have been admired for all of man’s history. It is only in the last 100 years, in an age of hyper abundance and rapidly expanding human populaitons, that hunters have been villified.
How about pythons in the Everglades? Kill every last one of them and smash their eggs.
“Sorry, I find nothing to admire.”
Nobody ******* asked you what you thought.
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It served a function a few hundred years ago I guess.
Pathetic now. Hunting for food, of course, and possibly for dangerous predators, but just to kill a magnificent animal? Sick. I like guns as much as anyone, but shooting a lion or an elephant or some other beautiful animal that isn’t overpopulated like whitetail, just to get your kicks? disgusting.
A big thumbs up.... /Smile
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Aren’t there a few commercial hunters of feral dogs in Australia? I don’t know if much of a living can be made on just the bounties.
There are some professional dog hunters in Australia. There are others professional hunters to help keep down populations of pest animals.
I do not think of them as “commercial hunters” because they are not selling the products of the hunt.
But, they are professional hunters and some of them make a living at it.
“Harvesting” polar bears?
Killing elephants for their tusks?
Sorry, I find nothing to admire.
Right on Lurker!
Meh. I’d say allow it, but due to their rarity, manage it with great vigilance.
The article is about killing excess kangaroos in Australia. I wish they’d do the same to mustangs overgrazing the western US. And while I have no desire to hunt deer, the folks I know who do EAT them.
Trophy hunting isn’t something I’d ever want to do, but the economics can give a local population a reason to CONSERVE animals that would otherwise be killed off as competition to their livestock.
The hunters have become the hunted.
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