Killing for sport is reprehensible. (Hunting for food is not.)
Killing for sport, having made yourself immune from danger, makes the word “sport” generous and unjustified.
Killing elephants for sport—who love, grieve, teach their young—is beyond the pale.
HT @NAChristakishttps://twitter.com/yashar/status/1053052215395418113 …
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I don't know for sure this is what was going on, but some of these 'hunts' are population control measures. It looks like in this area, two elephants per year are taken. It's not pretty, but hunting/big game mgmt in Africa is so screwed up, good practices can look pretty bad.
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Many times, the meat is given to locals, and the value brought in by foreigners coming in to 'hunt' the animals is enough to get local buy-in for antipoaching measures. Again, I don't know the specifics of this one, but I think it's important not to paint with too broad a brush.
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However, the same territorial problems exist. Certainly, management in Africa could be monumentally different. The modernization of cultures there is insufficient to address not just this, but virtually all of their issues.
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