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Originally Posted by jayswin
But if numbers are suffering due to non-legal hunting factors (aka poaching) then doesn't legal hunting need to be reduced to compensate? Seems weird for people who supposedly care deeply about conservation to say "Well, if they're poaching then that's why this species is threatened, but we're still going kill ours because we get to!!….and we also care very much about these animals".
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Isn’t that like saying farmed salmon consumption needs to drop if the wild pop drops?
At least in this case these animals are farmed to be hunted. And in general most of the legal hunting being done is farmed.