” Hunting is harvesting a God-given renewable resource.”
Look who is talking non-sense crap. Hunting for ego-boost is not “harvest.” Is that psycho hunter who just killed the elephant going to eat its meat? Where is the harvest? Ego-harvest you mean?
“Hunting is stewardship and a neccessary part of proper management.”
Nature takes care of itself. There is no need for a gun/bow welding recreation hunter(who is not elephant’s natural predator) to go and shoot/kill a free roaming wild elephant in its own habitat.
If they want to have that ego-boost, go raise elephants in their own ranch and kill them there.
I guarantee that the meat was harvested by those who truely needed and appreciated it. The local vilage will eat very well for some time.
Elephants, like deer, if left to populate unmanaged will soon overpopulate the lands ability to support them and they will either die a slow painful death of starvation or disease.
That is your idea of management?
Slow wasteful deaths are superior to proper management? Just so you can feel smug and righteous and superior?
If poachers are not stopped by conservationist paid for by hunting, the populations can and are decimated by poaching.
Hunting prevents all of these.
The best way to protect an endangered species is to hunt and kill them which raises the neccessary funds to manage and protect them.
You watched way too much Bambi as a child and think that all hunters are sucking out the eyeballs of their victims in a sexual frenzy of bloodlust, when nothing could be farther from the truth.
This story is the picture of conservation and all you can do is snivel about them enjoying the thrill of a successful hunt.
Get a clue and an education and go kill and eat something before you proclaim your expertise over the internet from your crampped and darkened efficiency.