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Apr 15, 2021 · Ethical concerns about recreational hunting, and trophy hunting in particular, too often attract a one-sided focus of public attention; and the often-purposeful conflation of regulated hunting with poaching exacerbates this mounting problem.
Oct 29, 2015 · How Hunting Saves Animals. The story of a ranch in Africa shows that killing animals can actually be a form of conservation. In 2013, the Dallas Safari Club worked with Namibian wildlife officials to auction a hunt of a black rhino, the most endangered of the rhino species.
Nov 10, 2009 · According to Glenn Kirk of the California-based The Animals Voice, hunting “causes immense suffering to individual wild animals…” and is “gratuitously cruel because unlike natural predation...
However, as that would require a huge cultural change conservationists have to make the best of a dire situation. The only valid argument (as in good for wildlife) is that hunting may generate cash. Of course human predators (hunters) can and do replace the role of the locally extinct species predators.
Feb 19, 2021 · We identified studies that assessed the impact of recreational hunting on the population abundance of targeted species as one measurable dimension of species conservation (excluding reviews, hunting to control problem species, and models predicting future impacts of hunting).
- Enrico Di Minin, Enrico Di Minin, Hayley S. Clements, Hayley S. Clements, Ricardo A. Correia, Ricard...
- 2021
The broad idea is that a few (often endangered) animals are sacrificed for the greater good of species survival and biodiversity. Local human communities also benefit financially from protecting animal populations (rather than seeing them as a threat) and may reap the rewards of employment by hunting operations, providing lodgings or selling goods.
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Sep 1, 2023 · More Americans approve of hunting with a bow and arrow than approve of hunting with firearms, for example, even though firearms usually offer a more reliably humane way to kill an animal.
