I cacciatori di trofei del Regno Unito sparano dozzine di animali in via di estinzione tra cui elefanti e orsi
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/trophy-hunt-animals-uk-ban-elephant-b2777875.html
di Kunphen
I cacciatori di trofei del Regno Unito sparano dozzine di animali in via di estinzione tra cui elefanti e orsi
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/trophy-hunt-animals-uk-ban-elephant-b2777875.html
di Kunphen
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> In all, wealthy trophy-hunters reportedly imported into the UK 188 parts from 28 endangered or threatened species in 2023 – the year after Boris Johnson’s government dropped a proposed new ban on such imports.
> Both Conservative and Labour election manifestos in 2019 and 2024 included pledges to introduce a ban, and the two main parties have been repeatedly accused of dithering, allowing British shooters to continue killing wild animals for fun.
So, a tiny minority of wealthy pricks continue to bring in body parts, to, somehow, glorify themselves.
Meanwhile, election pledges to ban the importation, are, like so many other pledges, not implemented, because the whole place is screwed post Brexit, and they’re just trying to hold everything together instead.
There’s a silver lining to this – many nature reserves in poorer countries generate significant funding selling limited hunting permits to wealthy Westerners. They sell few enough permits that it’s sustainable and/or sell permits for specific individuals that are post-breeding or ill/injured, so killing them won’t impact biodiversity so much.
Obviously, the downside is that animals still die and it also legitimises the trade in trophies and animal parts, which can provide cover for illegal trade.
It’s tricky – wildlife reserves need the money to operate the parks, prevent them becoming farmland, protect them from poachers, and to protect and compensate neighbouring farmers who are impacted by elephants trampling and raiding their crops or lions eating their livestock.
Trophy hunting is not a threat to these animals at species level. Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation is. Followed by human-wildlife conflict and poaching. Sustainable trophy hunting is a proven conservation method against these threats. The hunting itself is not conservation, but the revenue it generates pays for habitat protection by its use as hunting reserves, anti-poaching efforts such as game rangers salaries and the equipment they need, as well as cash and investment incentives into local communities to work around and live with the mega fauna that share there environment.
Is conservation hunting a perfect method, no, but it is a tool on the conservation tool box that works well across much of Africa, particularly in areas unfit for photographic safaris. Why throw that tool out of the tool box when it’s proven to work with this senseless ban. There are currently over 2 million acres in sub Saharan Africa used for sport hunting, why undermine that conservation system?
Anyone that thinks it’s a skill to shoot a peaceful herbivore from distance with a super high powered rifle then display its corpse as some kind of victory has issues.