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Originally Posted by JJolg
How has farmed hunting destroyed number? These areas often gap between national parks and villages acting as a buffer and keeping down conflicts.
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Because like 99.99% of everything in Africa, hunting is felled by corruption and antiquated laws. South Africa allows the sale of lion bones to south east Asia. They allow 800 lions a year to be sold in such a manner. This effectively creates an open market for poachers (not like anyone is counting lions at the border). I'm not going to post dozens of articles on the issue. You should check for yourself. But the easiest thing to understand is lion populations before and after canned lion hunts. The wild population fell by 2/3's since the early 90's when canned hunting began. Among other issues is the relatively cheap cost of a canned lion hunt brings down the cost of a wild hunt. None of the money gets to local populations from a lion farm and farms are just as likely to interfere with migration patterns as create a buffer zone. Lions need habitat not farms. No farmed lion has ever been released into the wild. Farmed lions pass on diseases to wild lions. Watch "Blood Lion" if you want to see what the reality is.
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You may not like the pictures but at the end of the day if the government feels there are too many in a area or they are in conflict with village and livestock then you will see them shot out of helicopters/poisoned (both used for alberta wolves) or you can earn income on them and yes any safari or guide uses the meat.
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The government doesn't think there are too many lions. There's only a couple thousand in all of South Africa. If a lion is rampaging through your ancestral village I fully support killing it.
Bringing up the Alberta wolf cull is super ironic and typical of what hunters and untrained wildlife officers think about population control. The reality is our wolf cull has not increased caribou populations in targeted areas. In fact caribou populations have gone down in those areas...or rather followed the decline of other populations in areas where wolves were not culled. When wolves are introduced into new areas, ungulates thrive as does the balance of the ecosystem. If you want thriving populations you need to expand natural habitat, not shrink it via farms or other industrial projects.
It's super easy and logical to think like this...want more rabbits? Kill everything that eats rabbits. But that's not how it works.
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
'DISGUSTED': Daughter of lion killing Canadian couple speaks out
https://canoe.com/news/world/disgust...ple-speaks-out
Sydney Carter, 19, the daughter of Darren, addresses her father directly, condemning his actions and vowing never to call him dad again.
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That's heart breaking. I do not understand abandoning your kid like that. Add a really stupid looking dbag full sleeve of dumb tattoos to his dbag resume...another thousand bucks his kid didn't get. I fully support all the shame that comes his way now. Poor kid.