“I’ve never been to Africa but I have cousins that went. Typical missionary work. They came away with stories about corruption, bribes and mismanaged everything. Their actual words were “imagine an entire country like NYC or Chicago.”
I guess the mob has nothing on African strongmen.”
Which proves the reality of it. You can outlaw all you want, you can post all the no hunting signs you want, you can make all the humane efforts you want and it is still going to happen... Human nature cannot be stopped.
All you can do is try to create a positive silver lining from the inevitable that will happen anyhow to try and slow it. And hope that the positive efforts will outweigh the negative urges of human nature.
All “legal” hunting goes a long way towards actually doing this.
Poaching and poachers posing as hunters is actually what is inevitable when you introduce legal hunting. Hunting and poaching enable each other and are simply two faces of one coin: a multi-billion dollar global wildlife trafficking industry.
“Which proves the reality of it. You can outlaw all you want, you can post all the no hunting signs you want, you can make all the humane efforts you want and it is still going to happen... Human nature cannot be stopped.”
But the effort must be made.
I wish I could remember the source but it was several years ago and I didn’t save it.
An African country was having a terrible time with poachers. The government put the army in charge of ending the poacher scourge. The army went in with very liberal rules of engagement.
They started out killing anyone who resisted. Later they would ease off the killing but kept the constant random patrols and started making targeted attacks against base camps.
They spent a lot of money but put the poachers on short notice that they weren’t welcome.