At least for all the countries where hunting takes place, very accurate. They all match major wild hunting areas or national parks.
There are 2 options that come to mind immediately. I’m sure there are a few more. One is in Namibia in an area with sandy soil against the corner of South Africa and Botswana. The other is in Nyakasanga in Zambezi valley with a high number of lions. It should be noted as well, I believe it is illegal to bait lions in South Africa. That is why tracking is primary method. Also, every single CBL lion in a hunting area is a shootable animal. There is no need to identify age or pride male or lioness with cubs because there isn’t. Baiting gives better opportunity for more precise identification of the right animal.
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Thanks, that's helpful!
Aside from private land in South Africa and Namibia that map also likely shows the highest concentrations of wildlife left in Africa today in blue as well
With some exceptions if this map is accurate looks like most of todays lions are in hunting countries or recently hunting countries. Don’t think Benine or Burkino Fasso are still huntable since Boco Haram has emerged there.
Very relevant article to this debate. A lot of this occurring on both sides of this debate.
Wake up. It was a management hunt. Do you know what those are? This cow was 25 years old. She hadn't calved in four years and lost her last two. Drought conditions were hard on her and the rest of the herd. She was in tough shape but still able to keep up with the herd ... for the time being. Look at her in the photo. No meat on her hips or withers. Her days were obviously numbered. I have no ethical issues putting her down. That's what it was supposed to be anyway. Turned out to be a rather exciting hunt. Difficult finding the herd. Suddenly in the thick stuff we were right in the middle of them. Literally. No chance of picking her out. Then we caught them crossing an opening to another forest and I frontal shot her through the heart at 110 yards. After she was down the herd bull came for us ... three times. Yeah, it was JUST a management hunt. But it was interesting. And genuinely exciting. Much more than I expected.
SCI and DSC agree with that sentiment completely. So do I. I think there is a difference between a pheasant or chicken or chicken egg for that matter and a lion. Most people do. It is a little more complicated when comparing to ungulates, but again, there is some clear difference in most people's minds between a steer and a lion. The danger thing is real and is a difference between pheasants and lions, but so is getting in the ring with a Spanish fighting bull.
There is a pretty terrible Mark Sullivan video out there where he hunts a CBL. He and his PH, who much of the time looks like one of those American pilots in a Hanoi POW video, track a released lion. They catch up with him and in stentorian tones Sullivan decides it is not the lion's day to die as the camera pans in close on the beasts snarling face - maybe he refused to charge?. The next day, they promptly picked up the tracks again and shoot him.
So, I will never hunt a lion. I won't spend the resources to hunt one in a wilderness area and have no desire to hunt one in an enclosure. I also won't fly to New Zealand (or drive an hour into the Texas Hill Country) to shoot a red stag behind a fence, but love trying to walk down a far lesser free range animal in Argentina. If I am visiting a trophy room, and the lion story starts out with "there I was in the Limpopo ..." then I'll move on to fix myself another drink. To me it is the same as shooting a hippo or croc in a stock pond. More power to all of you who are not conflicted.
I fail to see how chasing a management cow buffalo around on 4,000 acres is a contradiction to baiting a lion or tracking one that's just been kicked out of a pen. That cow spent all of her twenty-five years living on that acreage, which is far from a "pen," and I didn't shoot her over bait. The hunt involved some genuine stalking of animals that were genuinely wary. There is no contradiction and you only make yourself look foolish trying to make one up.
