| JabaliHunter |
| (.400 member) |
| 02/02/08 05:24 AM |
Re: fair chase CHARTER
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As clients pay soooo much money for their safari, they quite rightly expect a fairly high success rate.
I fear this is at the root of many unethical practices
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Few people are prepard to spend umpteen thousand dollars and however long, to shoot something like 2 or 3 animals in a week or so.
It is interesting though that people will spend large amounts of time and money pursuing single animals when they are valued highly enough. For example, sheep, goats, polar bear, grizzly bear, to name just a few.
I don't know the answer, but perhaps the problem is that the abundance of species and the relative ease of hunting numerous species on a single trip is itself a factor in perpetuating some high expectations of success, and that this in itself can lead to the devaluing of wildlife and unethical practices among some so-called hunters?
Maybe it should be a bit harder to be successful on more than 2 or 3 species on a single safari, and maybe that would require restricting the use of vehicles, for example?
Just a thought
