Monday 19 March 2012

Can hunting endangered animals save the species?

Inspired by the comments on the Sun's story "twisted sisters", and videos made by ignoramuses like SKY news, below:



I am posting a video done not by hunters or hunting organisations but by CNBC 60 minutes.

See for yourselves before deciding. Hunters are the biggest conservationists. Be proud to be a hunter. The video below is just an excerpt as youtube wont allow me to embed the full video. However i am providing the link to the full video.




6 comments:

  1. I saw this segment on 60 minutes, and it made me rethink "canned hunts", which I had a sweeping general distaste for--but then the ones I was familiar with utilized tame surplus from a petting zoo that were selected by the "hunter" while in stalls in a barn, then run into a small pen and shot! Kinda disgusting, and not deserving of the term "hunting", in my opinion. But this place? Well, THAT'S totally different, of course! So it pays to NOT make sweeping generalizations about ANYTHING--everything(everyone) should be judged on it's own, individual merit....

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    1. Dear A lana Batot, thanks for the comments. I hope that this post changes the outlook of a few people and show what hunting can do and really does for conservation.

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  3. Shooter I just got back from an elephant hunt about 5 weeks ago. It would do the liberationists and protectionists quite a bit of good to set aside their idealisic beliefs for a moment and try get a handle on what's really happening in the world. And pigs might fly. I'm surprised at how many hunters are against trophy hunting whether it be for plains game, big 5 or CITES listed species. Very sad state of affairs.

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    1. Well said dagga boy. As you might have gathered from my writings, i support all legal, controlled hunting, both and non-trophy. Glad you liked my story. Hope you enjoy the others.

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  4. Cheers Shooter. Enjoying your posts, particularly enjoyed reading about your chital hunt. I chased them in April but when I caught up with a decent stag I had the camera in hand, not the rifle! That's hunting ay?! Cheers mate. Dagga

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