http://www.africanskyhunting.co.za/trophies/elephant-hu numerous hunting camps still offer trophy hunts.
I just don't understand why you would wake up one morning and decide to blow away an elephant. Just not me I guess.
Gary
It's OK if you don't understand, but if you don't understand about any given subject you should try to learn about it in order to talk knowledgeably about it. It's even worse when those that don't understand try to force their beliefs on other people.
You haven't answered any of my questions, What do you do for a living? Do you think it is right for a government to outlaw an industry because a very small minority of the people in that industry may be doing it illegally? Or is it better if they catch those individuals and punish just them.
This is a discussion forum, it's fine if people want to tout their beliefs but if you say something, a reasonable man will expect you to be able to defend what you say. If you can't defend what you say, maybe it's best left unsaid until you can defend it. If we all sit around and spout our beliefs without being able to defend them, none of us learn anything, we don't have a better understanding of the problems, and they go unsolved.
I don't particularly understand why recruits in boot camp get treated so poorly when they first join the military but since I don't know anything about it I don't pass judgement on it. I try not to talk about things I know nothing about.
As for hunting elephants, and any other animal. Civilized man learned a long time ago that hunters can kill game far more humanely than nature can. When a human kills an animal, the goal is to kill it quickly so that the animal does not suffer. Humaneness is a human concept, that's why "human" is in the word. Nature knows nothing of humaneness. When a population of animals exceeds the carrying capacity of it habitat nature takes care of the problem through starvation and disease. I have seen how nature does it and I can tell you it's not pretty, it's not humane. Every animal that is born must die, would you rather it die humanely or suffer a long time starving to death or by disease?
Wildlife goes through boom and bust cycles if wildlife populations aren't kept at about 80 percent of the carrying capacity of it's habitat through game management. If left unchecked wild life population will crash to about twenty percent. Through modern wildlife conservation (game management) man has learned that if we take between 10 and 20 percent of any given population annually the population doesn't have to be limited by disease and starvation, and go though these boom and bust cycles. There are more animals for everyone, they are healthier. That is why modern man hunts. Those are the elephants that are being taken though sport hunting in Africa today. The people that hunt (game in general) are doing you a service, and they are paying the much needed funds for wildlife management to do it. They are not asking you for anything to do that service for you, they just want to be left alone.
None of this has anything to do with the elephants that are being poached, those are completely different elephant populations. Those populations (where they are poached) are being depleted because there is no one there that cares enough about them to protect them like there are where healthy populations are being managed.
