| Tatume |
| (.400 member) |
| 05/07/09 09:28 PM |
Re: the big 5
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One only has to look at how quickly the Black Rhino declined in numbers once all hunting was banned, to realise how desperately game management in Africa needs the funds which only sport hunting can generate.
The mechanism seems to be somewhat more strongly in favor of hunting. More than game management is needed. If the animal has no value to the majority of affected people, they will have no interest in conservation. Worse is the case in which the animal is considered detrimental, such as when they raid crops. People may then support the poachers.
Once sport hunters are allowed to bring a large influx of money into the equation, people realize that the animals are valuable TO THEM. They earn their livelihood in an industry supported by hunting. Not only is money available to hire game managers and wardens, but the people at large turn against the poachers. Instead of starving when crops are destroyed by marauding animals, hunters pay big bucks to come hunt those animals.