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US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it's for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.
Whoopsies! There goes another one that we've hunted to extinction. 🤷🏻♂️
It's more like that hunting permit fees fund actual conservation efforts, not that there's really much of a legitimate conservation effect from the hunting itself. (Except maybe when it's an invasive species.)
Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.
I vote to use their hoard similar to the Susan G Komen foundation. Awareness of the issue, funding the members(mass populous) with a bit going to research
I wonder what percentage goes to the actual conservation efforts, after all the cuts and bribes by the middlemen
It depends heavily where it is. Some of the programs are very very good, others are corrupt af.
The best ones give the people living in proximity to the animals recourse when said animals destroy crops or property. This plus giving back a portion of the fees to help community enrichment projects incentivizes protection of the animals by the locals, which deters poaching and stuff.
When prey animals are "saved" from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment. Deer in North America is an example that needs to be controlled.
Is don't know to what extent though.
Exactly...
When corrupt capitalists are "saved" from taxation, they tend to hoard wealth and wreck havoc on the economy. Drastically lowering not only everyone else's quality of life, but in many cases their physical health and well-being along with everyone they know and interact with
It's a classic trolly problem.
Track one: about 8,300,000,000 people
Track 2: 3,500 people that aimed the trolleybat track 1.
Would you turn the switch back so it saves 8.3 billion people, at the expense of of the less than 4 thousand people that put us in front of the trolley?
deer reproduce very fast, elephants take 22months to gestate a baby, big cats like wise. the forest elephant which is a different species is pretty at risk.
elephants, cape buffalos, lions and most of the cat species in africa, and forest elephants are pretty much endangered right