As such, hunters have every right to participate, and we shouldn’t sit on the sidelines and allow them to be lambasted and ruined when they go on hunts recognized by international treaties. The key is that legal safaris are, well, legal. Oh, and never mind that international treaties strictly regulate the permitting process. Those stirring up these controversies (think PETA) use hot-button words like “endangered” and “innocent” when talking about targets of these hunts - disregarding the fact that even the World Wildlife Foundation (not exactly a champion of our sport) even admits regulated big-game hunting is a valid means of injecting money into local African communities and conservation efforts. Legal questions arose following the lion-killing, but a Business Insider report on the blowup over Liautaud’s hunt pointed out that “(t)here’s nothing to suggest any illegal activity.” The difference between the two episodes is pretty stark. The Jimmy Johns controversy harkens back to similar attacks on a Minnesota dentist who killed poor old Cecil the lion, which anti-hunters proclaimed “beloved” by everyone on the Dark Continent - in spite of locals’ bemusement at the social-media backlash that eventually drove the man into hiding. We didn’t agree, but I shared some thoughts that go beyond the anti-hunting rhetoric. So I couldn’t ignore the post, and we had a fairly good discourse on the merits of hunting - even when the targets are African big-game animals. It makes him look like a psychopath.”Ī quick Google search revealed that elephants and rhinos, far from being endangered worldwide, are thriving in some African countries to the point that legal, regulated hunting is allowed. “The size of the grin on this man’s face as he stands next to a dead endangered animal (an elephant) makes my blood run cold. Photos showed Liautaud smiling next to a downed elephant and a dead rhino, among other exotic game.
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