History of Hunting part 2

HUNT: A NECESSARY EVIL?

 In recent times, several schools of thought have developed the promotion of hunting as a "rich heritage that should not be forgotten". However, hunting acts as a unique method of survival for the numerous rural groups in the contemporary world and allows control of the wildlife population. Any hunting operation allows only a small number of animals to be captured annually. During this process, biological data are recorded and sent to the wildlife service in order to maintain control over the general health and population of the species.
 The supporters of this "sport" have also developed tranquilizer guns to merge leisure with animal welfare. Wagner, a businessman from Fort Worth, offered $ 23,000 in an online auction for the opportunity to participate in the first hunt and capture of a bongo (an endangered animal from Africa) in danger of extinction. This auction was organized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fund of Bisbee. The income of which was allocated to research and conservation, effort in Africa. "It moved me more (about traditional hunting) because the animal got up and lived another day," Wagner said.
 Conservation societies and organizations have begun the paradoxical attempt to bring back some of these species by legalizing hunting for the high license fees. These fees are spent on conservation supplies, equipment, technology and personnel. Animals are often hunted under the law in South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.
 South Africa, home of the critically endangered black rhino, has decided to sell some of the animals to professional fighters at very high prices. In 1996, a man named John Hume bought three of them for $ 200,000 and then sold the hunting rights to two of them to two other men. They requested anonymity due to death threats, but paid $ 150,000 each to hunt the animals. Hume hunted the third himself. He was one of the first to pay money to a conservation society for the privilege of hunting a black rhinoceros.
 The exorbitant fee generated by the hunting of a few is channeled towards the conservation and safeguarding of many. In addition, most of the time, the animals sold to these groups are old, sick or dishonest. Therefore, the defenders of these hunts maintain that they save the animal the miserable death by starvation and that they also lead to the threat of extinction.


 

A BIRD BY HAND IS LESS THAN TWO IN THE HOME

 Tewksbury, director of the Luc Hoffmann Institute of the World Wildlife Fund, notes that the Mekong basin of Southeast Asia, through its fisheries, supports 60 million people while in the United States, shark observation results. they are $ 314 million per year, directly supporting 10,000 jobs.
 According to Rogers, a researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University, 73 percent of visitors to Namibia are nature-based tourists, and their money accounts for 14.2 percent of their economic growth.
 "The sighting of whales alone in Latin America generates more than 275 million dollars a year. Several studies have shown how turtles are worth more alive than dead, "said Tewksbury.
 The lemurs, the famous large-eyed primates that are found only on the island of Madagascar, are one of the critically endangered species on Earth. Like the lions in Zimbabwe, lemurs are a major tourist attraction for Madagascar and will always generate more profits for more people alive than dead.
Pablo Escobar, the infamous multimillionaire of drug trafficking, was the owner of four African hippopotamuses and when his farm was liquidated, the hippos became too dangerous to even approach and were allowed to roam freely. They raised a total of 16, one of whom was subsequently shot in self-defense. The rest are still in the Magdalena River.
 

GOING  

The murder of Cecil, one of Zimbabwe's most beloved wild animals, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to thousands of animals captured by poachers each year. Some are captured by hunters, others by organized criminals who want to sell different parts (it was reported that the rhino horn sold for $ 65,000 for 2.2 pounds, which makes it more expensive by weight than gold, diamond or cocaine) . Sometimes they are impoverished people looking for an easy catch or a square meal. Either way the animal ends up dying. Whatever the motivation of the poacher, they are elbowing these iconic animals to the edge.


 Human beings have caused 322 extinctions of animals in the last 500 years, with two thirds of those that have occurred in the last two centuries. This rate of extinction has not been unprecedented since the dinosaurs finished their reign 65 million years ago.The most complete data from the survey indicated that 100,000 African elephants were looted across the continent between 2010 and 2012. According to those figures, in 2011 alone, poachers killed approximately one in 12 African elephants. We know that they are terribly endangered, but their total number is still between 450,000 and 700,000 today. In 1900, there were 10 million. Most of them were killed by hunting for legal trophies before African nations began protecting them in the mid-twentieth century. Today, most of the dead are the result of illegal poaching. Although ivory is internationally banned, it remains popular among the rich, especially in Asia, and poachers earn $ 5,000 per pair of tusks.
 Humans are killing tigers faster than they are destroying their habitat. The disturbing evidence that poaching is the biggest threat to tigers: "Empty Forest Syndrome." Approximately 620,000 square miles of what should be a tiger habitat is currently unoccupied.
 For all sea turtles, including leatherbacks and green turtles that are also on the receiving end of the deadly attention of poachers, poaching is potentially catastrophic. Animals take so long to reach reproductive age (more than 30 years, in some cases) that many die before they have a chance to reproduce.
 Hunting for animals to establish respect in society, hunting for leisure and hunting for smuggled exotic species to earn a lot of money are practiced in many parts of the world, especially among elite groups or parts of Africa.
 When hunting is unnecessary, it is barbaric. Sometimes, hunting falls into the category of necessary evil. But when the goal is simply the pleasure of stalking and killing, or the pride of a "trophy," the need is absent and you must ask yourself what is left and what is next.