We all hunt primarily because we enjoy it.

Nevertheless, hunting should retain a useful background, meaning meat getting, and as a hunter you have in some way to calm your guilty conscience when killing animals. When I shot a buffalo or an elephant, I get meat for a lot of people. One can also argue with overpopulation of animals, the need for regulation, and so on.

But what about lion hunting?

Apart from the fun of it, the arguments mentioned above do not apply to hunting this species. Added to this is the well-known damage that is caused in a pride when a dominant lion is killed. Selecting an open for shooting lion seems very hypothetical to me.

I see the killing of lions as an expression of machismo and that is why the demand for such hunts is not low. Fortunately it is normally very limited by the quotas and then the price, but the door is open for practices like captive lion breeding and canned lions, which allows a few more hunters to kill lions.

I am against lion hunting, although as a hunter I am not a militant, but I will have no regrets if lion hunting is stopped altogether.