Thread: A good opportunity to bait the anti brigade !

Each to their own, most of the big 5 not my thing but I would definately like a Cape Buff on my wall one day.

The biggest thing people not from Africa don't uderstand is that hunting is so different there, game farming is a more appropraite term. There is no public land hunting as there is here, it is all on game farms or tribal concessions, the game is counted, managed and quotas are decided on. It is generally very controlled and sustainable (not to be confused with poaching which is uncontrolled and unsustainable.) Big Game Hunting provides the US$$$$$ for poaching prevention and makes the animals valuable and worth protecting, look at what happened in Kenya once they stopped hunting, the game is stuffed from poaching.

Do people get upset because it is a lion? Why is a lion any different from any other animal we farm? I don't see these antis getting as upset about beef or sheep farming (which by the way is farmed where these other priveleged animals used to live!)
The best way to save a species is to attach a value to it, without hunting a lion and leopard are just stock killing pests with no value outside a game reserve.

Riling up the antis serves little purpose, they are generally not very rational so you cannot argue with them.