Posted on 04/24/2021 5:27:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Facing an income shortage from the loss of tourism due to COVID-19, Zimbabwe has announced it will soon start selling rights to shoot 500 endangered elephants this year.
“We eat what we kill. We have a budget of about $25 million for our operations which is raised — partly — through sports hunting, but you know tourism is as good as dead at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic,” Tinashe Farawo, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told CNN.
The African forest elephant is now on the critically endangered species list and the savannah elephant is classified as endangered.
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Speaking of the Chinese, the number one country on this planet responsible for paying Poachers is the Chinese. They pay serious dollars for the Ivory and various organs of many African animals for their “medicines” and “aphrodisiac” concoctions. Most poachers sell to Chinese brokers or to Terrorists that sell to Chinese Brokers.
“”I guess you haven’t tried eating an eagle, a mouse, a grasshopper, or CROW.””
Only reason eagles are around is because they are protected by law, were it not for that those raising sheep and anything else big enough for an eagle to take would kill them off.
I kill every mouse and rat I see.
A swarm of grass hoppers can destroy a productive filed in a matter of hours.
Crows are no different, we kill them every chance we get.
You just mentioned 4 critters that humans have no use for. Ask the Australians about cattle, they’re having a feral cattle problem now. They’re smart and can kill you. You can go hunt them to.
There’s a reason many species are protected, without that protection we would probably just eliminate them and concentrat on species that serve a purpose.
Are you the expert on what species actually serve a purpose?
Many years ago, we would dynamite whole trees full of roosting crows - we thought they were destroying the crops.
Then, someone had the bright idea to investigate the contents of their digestive tracts.
They found the crows stomachs to be full of the remains of insects that were actually *damaging* to crops.
You seem to think like Bill Gates, who apparently believes that ‘dimming the Sun’ will somehow HELP Earth.
I guess you both got your scientific degrees from the same institution.
What’s the sport in stunning and slaughtering a young steer?
Not an expert but I do deal in reality and if you follow the history of humans it all get’s laid out and easy to see. Unless it feeds us or warms us it’s pretty much useless to our existence. In many cases it can actually compete against us such as some of our larger predators. Early humans killed every one of them they could.
We no longer need birds to protect crops from insects, we can do that.
We no longer need predators to control many of our critters such as elk, moose or deer, we can do that.
As I said before, some species exit only because we allow it. No species can stand up to the onslaught of the human species. There’s a reason some are protected and other have certain seasons and bag limits. I’m on a 42 square mile ranch every day, over a years time I’ll kill a couple of hundred Ravens a year. They will wipe out a doves nest, kill baby quail and kill baby cottontails. All are considered a food source for humans. They have also been know to kill lambs and blind calves. North of town some of the farmers have annual Crow shoot’s when their migrating. A little beer, BBQ and spend the day wearing out the shotguns.
Old bulls have killed many a hunter, even very experienced ones. They are the most dangerous ones out there.
The bulls have another advantage you didn’t mention: They can charge in a straight line THROUGH the bush while their target is limited by the need to escape on the trails.
There's a much longer version of this but I couldn't find it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77wtMxT3-M
Hunting elephants is not just like a bunch of rednecks pulling up in a pickup and shooting the first deer they see. It is carefully planned out and guides are there to make sure that the proper animals are harvested. Old bulls are typically off in a group all by themselves, not mixed in with a breeding herd. This is a good management of resources plan. It will free up the food and water being used by these bulls for a more viable breeding herd.
I have to periodically run off deer in broad daylight as they ease up to my garden for a buffet. 😉
What do you call the dark spots between elephant's toes?
Slow natives.
What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?
Ellephino!
Then what is feeding the hyena & vulture population?
The dairy cow heifers that American Farmers sent to Africa years ago to help the villages start a herd for milk, etc?
The fools ate the cows before they calved.....
IIRC, American farmers said : NEVER AGAIN.
The GOP can use it as a campaign slogan
The only African nations that can effectively defend their game animals from poachers are the ones that sell hunting rights to allow a select few to be killed and the trophy fees to be re-invested in gamekeepers. In some cases the trophy fee for one bull elephant or a single male lion can provide the salary for 20 gamekeepers for a year. Not to mention some villiage gets a month’s worth of meat from the elephant, which couldn’t happen if the exact time and place of its death aren’t known.
Indeed. This is only a “sport” for those with a perverted definition.
You can run them off but they keep coming back
Lol. Thought about it but the risk outweighs the benefit. .decent bow plus arrows $400. Tomatoes saved $10. .22 air rifle pellets loaded with succinylcholine chloride theoretically would work too. Again risk. vs reward.
Yes my neighbor has tin pie plates strung on string to keep them out. I have put netting around mine this year. Its a constant problem.
I’m sorry, but I’m still concerned with motivation.
I don’t buy that ‘altruism’ is the goal of people who will pay ‘50K to 500K’ to shoot an animal.
What they’re paying for is the thrill of the hunt and the opportunity to prove themselves against a wild, rampant animal.
If these hunters were really altruistic, they’d take that money and fund a nonprofit - or create and work on one themselves! - that trained the village/town people to handle this themselves.(I’m sure the latter could learn quickly - their ancestors managed it with hand hewn spears and various other methods.)
Rich Americans and Europeans don’t ‘save the world’ just by spending money alone. Many times, their money hurts more than it helps - and their real aims are not at all altruistic.
Have fun in that chemical, mechanical, dog-eat-dog world that you seem to think is eternally our earthly condition - which perspective I hope doesn’t prove to seriously bite you or your descendants.
We have evolved in our science and understanding since the times when we ‘killed everything we could’. Eventually, we will evolve to realize that there is a Natural way to address everything - as long as we take our overweening egos out of the equation.
Human beings are really still pretty stupid - every time they reach a certain level of scientific understanding, they think it’s the ultimate. They make all sorts of mistakes on that basis, and then later are proven wrong by further science.
Of course, the ones trying to further the science are always persecuted and shut down - for a while.
And then everyone decides that it was their idea all along.
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