>>151528>>151559>>151561>>151566> While it may be true now it wasn't true when shit was being hunted to near extinction.The loss of habitat and devastation of the animal life in Africa didn't happen until the
late 1950s-early 1960s, when European colonial powers handed over control to the
natives.
The newly independent African nations immediately banned hunting (as only White
people could afford to hunt) and broke up game preserves, (to give the land to the
"people") as hunting was presented as racist policies imposed by European colonial
powers.
The result was no money to preserve and protect wilderness areas and wildlife and
as the natives were dirt-poor, they killed everything in sight and sold the trophies
on the black market.
South Africa, the last of the European dominated African nations, managed to keep
hunting going and today, they have so many elephants they are forced to cull them
while in surrounding African nations, elephants are almost extinct due to poaching
and loss of habitat.
> Most of the funding in Australia that pushes ahead turning state forests into national parks come from the GovernmentExactly; instead of self-funding conservation through hunting and encouraging respect
for and a love of nature, the State simply taxes everyone and imposes restrictions on
human use, creating resentment and encouraging poaching and increasing the power
and scope of government (which was the plan all along).
