>>564138> you have truly convinced yourselves that the best way to protect these animals is to,> rather than simply letting them be and do your part towards the preservation of species,> is to shoot and kill the biggest, healthiest males you can find?Who is going to pay to protect these animals and more importantly, preserve the wilderness
areas where they live?
Not the fucking Africans, who don't give a single fuck about conservation and who commit almost
all the poaching that's going on in Africa and who constantly encroach on wilderness area to herd
their cattle.
And the Chinese sure aren't going to pay, as they're the ones who the African poachers selling
the trophies, so they can be ground up into magical penis enlargement "medicines".
Now you can say; "what about the money from eco-tourism?" and it's true that generates more
then hunting but hunting still makes up a _substantial_ portion of the money needed to preserve
the animals and wilderness areas.
Ban hunting, as the anti-hunting fundies are trying to do (and who are using this incident with the
dentist to do so) and we will see an immediate and massive increase in poaching by native Africans,
to the point I suspect these animals will in fact go extinct.
