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Originally Posted by octothorp
It's an interesting perspective, but the fact that it's written by someone from Zimbabwe doesn't necessarily make it right. He brings up the fact that in the US, mountain lions were once hunted to near extinction; exactly right, and that was because of the same sort of narrow-mindedness he's displaying. That any predator that is a potential threat to humans must be killed. Parks programs (and the US deserves major credit for being a world leader in establishing parks programs) introduced a new perspective toward how humans and potentially dangerous predators can co-exist. And that is part of the purpose of national parks in a place like Zimbabwe: to ensure that lions and other potentially dangerous animals can be given a large range, while not directly endangering locals.
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Plus he doesn't address the source of the outrage, which is trophy killing itself. Killing an animal for food, or killing one that is a direct threat to people is completely understandable. But killing one that is in a protected wildlife reserve and poses no threat to any human is simply bloodlust