I don't really have a problem with this. Call it unsportsmanlike, say it's not real hunting, but it's a pretty big reach to call it immoral. If the herd needs to be culled, why does it matter who does the culling? Would the elephant be any less dead if it was culled by a sharpshooter from a helicopter? At least this way some money was made (the park sold the elephant, the ranch paid to transport it, someone paid the ranch to shoot it). I hunt every chance I get, and I have no interest in taking part in a canned hunt. However, if I don't have a problem shooting a deer in the woods, how can I be against someone shooting a deer inside of a fence.
Just my opinion, donning flame proof suit.
Capturing individual elephants out of family groups, especially for so disgusting a purpose as letting some pseudo-macho tourist shoot the animal while it's still drugged and disoriented, is immoral. If culling needs to be done, it should be done to whole family groups so as not to traumatize elephants who are not being culled. And nobody should be doing it for fun or as an ego trip. Unwanted dogs and cats have to be euthanized every day at animal shelters, but we recognize that this is sad state of affairs, and we wouldn't stand for the shelters inviting people to come and pay for the opportunity to torment the animals and then kill them for fun.