MarkCZ
AH enthusiast
The Lords have talked out the proposed legislation to ban bringing home trophies from hunts. This is great news for the animals of Africa but I suspect the next government will try to resurrect it.
MarkCZ
MarkCZ
i fear those number you mention are extremely swayedhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...il-end-controversial-Trophy-Hunting-Bill.html
When I was at Mabalabala in July there was a copy of Wild & Jag magazine by the bedside. In it, it reported the PHASA (Professional Hunting Association of South Africa) AGM and listed the foreign nationals by numbers who hunt in SA. Over two years, the number was always just under 150 in respect of the British, although the Americans, of course, provided the larger number at over 3,000 hunters per year. Even adding in the other African countries which allow hunting, the total number cannot be more than 200 British hunters per year. Of which, how many repatriate sporting trophies? Perhaps 80 persons per year?
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This is great news....BUT make no mistake, it is not over. They will try again and again and we will have to keep fighting. I've seen some here mention that not that many hunters come out of the UK. While that may or may not be true, it doesn't matter. An attack on them is an attack on all hunters. If we don't fight this, they will keep coming and erode hunting bit by bit.The Lords have talked out the proposed legislation to ban bringing home trophies from hunts. This is great news for the animals of Africa but I suspect the next government will try to resurrect it.
MarkCZ
This is what I have been saying for some time now.What is needed is better PR from hunters and orgs. Photos of schools that hunting pays for - not dead lions. Piles of books - not piles of dead coyotes. Wells not wildebeests. Whether people like it or not, this is a PR and optics battle ultimately.
It is a shame that it has come to this but I 100 percent agree. The fight will never be over until these issues are addressed (in my opinion). It took me 420 pages to explain the complexities of Wildlife conservation in Africa and convey the "heart of a hunter"...and why "trophies" are much more than "bragging rights". They are memories...and showing deep respect for an animal. But the antis only need one picture.Quo vadis Great Britain?
This is what I have been saying for some time now.
Each anti hunting campaign started with photos of dead animals, and smiling hunters.
With photos on internet we are shooting ourselves in a foot.
We now live in a moment when hunting ethics must be revised, with focus on photography in public media and social networks.
It is a shame that it has come to this but I 100 percent agree. The fight will never be over until these issues are addressed (in my opinion). It took me 420 pages to explain the complexities of Wildlife conservation in Africa and convey the "heart of a hunter"...and why "trophies" are much more than "bragging rights". They are memories...and showing deep respect for an animal. But the antis only need one picture.
Yes, unfortunately, you are probably right. They will always find something.The “antis” will always come up with something.