Facts Of Animal Hunting Versus Animal Rights.

Africa needs a more legal and fair hunting of wildlife hunting in its natural environments in a sustainable manner, not least, so that the conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat has any chance of success. The proven long-term successes of South African and Namibian conservation clearly demonstrate that this is the case.
I read carefully the piece by Ian Michler entitled Opinionist Like the fossil fuel industry, trophy hunting is unsustainable. Like almost all his writings on this important subject, he is practically exempt from relevant facts and, most importantly, a practical, tested and proven alternative to just hunting as a key conservation tool.
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It is full of its usual half-truths, emotions, sarcastic innuendo and simple misery. These tired views of him have been denied by Dr. John Hanks, a former CEO of WWF-Southern Africa and Peace Parks Foundation, as well as by Dr. John Ledger, a former CEO of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, but this does not stop him repeat them nausea
Let me nail my colors to the mast. I am passionate about wildlife and wildlife habitats. I support what keeps them and I oppose what does not. I have spent most of my life of 70 years and not insignificant amounts of my own money, trying to do just that. While I used to be a hunter and, for 20 years, I owned a commercial game ranch, I no longer hunt for a variety of reasons, that we do not need to stop now.
Allow me to provide some empirically determined and scientifically established facts that de-emphasize Mr. Michler's piece:
1 In 1964 a survey of games was conducted in South Africa, as mentioned in the book, Wilding the Farm or Farming the Wild, by Professor Jane Carruthers. The survey found that there were only 557,000 heads of game in the country. When the survey was repeated in 2005, this number had increased to 18.7 million. How? Why? The answer is to hunt as I will explain.
2 In the 1960s, the blue buck and quagga had already become extinct and four other species were still on their heels, namely black wildebeest, bontebok, Cape mountain zebra and white rhinoceros. None of these species amounted to more than 50 in number. Today, everyone has recovered and those who have been hunted more assiduously have recovered better. How have these species recovered and why? The answer again is hunting.
3 In the 1960s there were three hunting ranches in South Africa. Currently, there are more than 9,000 that provide around 21 million hectares of wildlife habitat for wildlife, whether they are game species or not, including birds, insects, rodents, reptiles and small predators, which represents more three times all the land covered by the country. The parks and provincial reserves come together and it has not cost the government a single penny to establish, manage or maintain. How did this happen and why? Once again, the answer is hunting.
4 When hunting was banned in Kenya in 1977 and temporarily closed in Uganda and Tanzania a little later, the demand moved south and, suddenly, the game that farmers had previously eradicated because it competed with its domestic livestock for food and water and it was thought that it spread the disease, it became more valuable than its sheep, goats and cattle, given the money paid by the hunters to hunt them. These same farmers began to reserve land for wildlife because they generated better incomes than their traditional agriculture and, therefore, began the quiet conservationist revolution in South Africa, which spread throughout the country for the benefit of all: people, living environment wild, wildlife and food security. .
5 On the contrary, in Kenya the opposite occurred. In a report published at the end of 2016 by seven Kenyan scientists, they said that since hunting was abolished in 1977:

"Here, we report extreme declines in wildlife and a contemporary increase in the number of animals in the Kenyan grasslands between 1977 and 2016. Our analysis uses data from systematic aerial monitoring surveys collected in grasslands that collectively cover 88% of the land area of ​​Kenya. Our results show that the numbers of wildlife declined on average by 68% between 1977 and 2016. The magnitude of the decline varied among species, but was more extreme (72 ± 88%) and now seriously threatens the viability of the population and the persistence of the wild boar, juvenile kudu, Thomson gazelle, eland, oryx, topi, hartebeest, impala, Grevy's zebra and waterbuck in the grasslands of Kenya. The declines were widespread and occurred in most of the 21 counties of the pastures. Similarly, in the case of wildlife, the number of cattle decreased (25.2%), but the numbers of sheep and goats (76.3%), camels (13.1%) and donkeys (6, 7%) evidently increased in the same period. As a result, the biomass of cattle was 8.1 times higher than that of wildlife in 2011 ± 2013, compared to 3.5 times in 1977 ± 1980 ".
6 According to these scientists, the solution was: "We suggest ... restore the health of pastures, especially through strengthening and investment in communities and private wildlife conservation areas (in other words, hunting and hunting ranches). * in the pastures.
* The parenthesis of the writer.
7 The latest statistics published by the Department of the Environment at the end of last year showed that 6,539 foreign hunters visited the country in 2016 and spent R1.27 billion on daily rates and trophy fees or an average of R215,000 per hunter. This amounts to more than R140,000 per game and does not include additional amounts spent on things like air fares, car rentals, hotels, tips, taxidermy, gifts and visits before and after the hunt, which would probably double the total expense.
8 Free State University estimates that there are some 300,000 domestic hunters, most of whom are meat hunters. They spend, on average, R34,000 each year on items related to hunting and hunting or another R10.02 billion.
9 According to the Wildlife Ranching of South Africa, hunting ranches provide more than 100 000 jobs, which are more abundant, better paid and more skilled than domestic livestock jobs that, for the most part, they replaced.
10 It is the hunters who have financed, directly and indirectly, these economic and conservation benefits that our country has benefited from.
11 It is a conservation model that has worked manifestly and continues to function. It has been tried and tested and the benefits are visible to everyone, including the main beneficiaries, the wildlife habitat and wildlife that matter so much to us. 12 Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars collected each year by Mr. Michler and his fellow travelers, HUSUSes, Petas, IFAWS and the hundreds of other anti-hunting / animal rights organizations that do little or nothing more than Divert funds from true conservation organizations, why have not they bought a hectare of wildlife habitat, nor an animal about to be hunted in Africa, to practice what they preach, to show how this utopia will work in practice, this fossil-free environment? It's because there is no money left after your seagull trips abroad, you know where they are launched from, they shit on the heads of the workers and they come out immediately afterwards, their publicity and public relations campaigns around the world to raise even more Money, your extended lectures on glamorous destinations and your emotional, self-congratulatory, strident propaganda efforts for your unproven and unproven programs?
13 In fact, Mr. Michler, by his own admission, states that he and his fellow travelers have no idea what to do. Write: "It's time to look for more effective and sustainable alternatives." He has been playing this same drum for years and years and years. How much longer do you need to look before you realize that the answer is before him? And while he is looking for things to raise more and more money for his search, while doing nothing but a great reputation and spreading his politically correct propaganda, what should practical conservationists do among us? Prohibition of hunting, the basis on which the proven long-term conservation successes in this continent have been built. Are you waiting for some unproven and untested experiment to occur to you? Really?
14 It is true that the habitats of wildlife and wildlife are under great threat in the whole of Africa because, as the Kenyan scientists themselves have identified, the increase in population, the destruction of habitat, hunting commercial of bushmeat, which the Michlers of this world combine deliberately and inaccurately. Hunting, poor government policies, planning and management, as well as climate change. It is only in countries like South Africa and Namibia with their well-developed hunting communities that wildlife and wildlife habitats are flourishing.
15.1 Two final points to consider; The interior of South Africa consists of the third region of the largest plateau outside of Asia. It is mainly semi-arid and largely unsuitable for crops or domestic livestock. It is neither suitable nor attractive for photographic safaris and yet it is where most of the hunting ranches of South Africa are carried out and, on the contrary, hunting.
15.2 The fastest-growing segment of hunters in North America, which has around 13.4 million hunters growing at 3.4% per year, are young women and men from urban areas of 20 and 30 years, such as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. Those who want to take responsibility for the protein their families eat.
16 In conclusion, Africa needs a more legal and fair hunting of wildlife hunting in its natural environments in a sustainable manner, not least, so that the conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat has any chance of success. The proven long-term successes of South African and Namibian conservation clearly demonstrate that this is the case.

Hunting Sport

According to a survey conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service UU., Approximately 15% of the US population. UU Hunting. Sport hunting is cruel. Hunting alters patterns of migration and hibernation, decimates the family units of animals and degrades habitats.
Types of hunting

    Hunting dogs are sometimes bred in horrible conditions. They can live at the ends of the chains until the hunting season begins.

    Trophy hunting aims to harvest the strongest animals in a population, leaving the weakest to pass on their genes to future offspring.

    Canned hunts involve hunters who shoot captive animals. These animals come from a variety of sources, bred for the purpose; taken from nature removed from zoos, circuses and other game farms; Or bought from animal dealers and research laboratories. Canned hunting has been banned in 20 US states. UU
Problems caused by hunting

    Imbalances of the population: when hunters kill predatory animals, prey animals flourish.

    Vehicle accidents: along with other factors, hunting seasons can contribute to seasonal peaks in automobile accidents.

    Lead poisoning: hunter lead bullets contaminate animals and can lacerate soil and water by contaminating groundwater sources. This contaminated water feeds municipal wells and water supplies.
Act to help save wildlife

    First, respect and value nature.

    Enjoy non-recreational forms of outdoor recreation that include hiking, camping, boating, and photography.

    Encourage legislators to change wildlife management practices to protect, not destroy, wildlife and enforce the laws already enacted.

    Educate family and friends about the damage it can cause to natural resources.

    Join organizations against sport hunting.

    Urge state wildlife organizations to have a balance of hunter and non-hunter individuals as staff members.

    Before supporting a conservation or wildlife group, make sure the group does not support hunting. The names of some local, state and national organizations can be misleading. As "wildlife", "desert" or "conservation", it can actually support hunting. Investigate before becoming a member.

Facts About Animal Poaching

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1. The "poaching of animals" is when an animal is killed illegally. It usually occurs when an animal possesses something that is considered valuable (ie, the fur or ivory of the animal).

  2. Many countries believe that rhinoceros horn is an important ingredient for many medicines. This is false. The rhinoceros horn has the same medicinal effect as biting the aliases none.

   3.In 2012, 668 rhinoceroses were looted in South Africa. As of January 2013 it increased to 946, these animals were looted at a rate of 2 per day. At the beginning of the 20th century there were a few million African elephants and approximately 100,000 Asian elephants. Today, elephants are now considered endangered, there are some 450,000-700,000 African elephants and 35,000-40,000 Asian elephants.

 4.  In general, larger adults with larger tusks are looted, which puts the matriarchs of the elephant herds at greater risk.





   5.In 2011, there were 13 large-scale seizures of ivory and more than 23 tons of confiscated ivory. This is equivalent to at least 2,500 elephants.

   6.Vietnam, China, Thailand and Korea are just a few countries with markets for horns and fangs.

  7. The bile vesicles of the bear get the best price for Chinese herbal remedies. And the horns of big-horned sheep can get $ 20,000 on the black market.

  8.Tigers are killed mainly to supply underground black markets with their organs, skins and bones. These items are highly appreciated in oriental medicine (although these treatments have been refuted and have no real medical value).

9. In Asia, tiger parts (apart from bone) are used in mythological medicine. This includes: the eyes, the hair, the internal organs, even the tiger penis, which is used in a soup as an aphrodisiac.

10. A 2010 report from the United Nations suggests that gorillas could disappear from much of the Congo Basin by the mid-2020s.

Facts about Wild life

Approximately 30,000 species per year, approximately three per hour, are being driven to extinction.- Harvard University
Approximately 80 percent of the decrease in global biodiversity is caused by habitat destruction.- African Conservation
The world's wildlife habitat is being destroyed at a rate of approximately 5,760 acres per day or 240 acres per hour.- African Conservation
The population of wildlife worldwide decreased in size by approximately 52 percent between 1970 and 2010. The human population more than doubled during the period.- World Wildlife Fund
Four percent of mammals in the world are wild animals. Thirty-six percent are human beings and 60 percent are farm animals.- National Academy of Sciences of the United States
The illegal traffic of wildlife around the world generates approximately US $ 20 billion per year.- United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
An average of 96 elephants are killed for their ivory in Africa every day.- Society for the Conservation of Wildlife
More African elephants are being killed by ivory that are being born.- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Approximately 60 percent of elephant deaths are in the hands of poachers.- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Poachers kill three rhinoceroses on an average day.- A green planet
There were once dozens of species of rhinos. Now there are only five left.- International Rhino Foundation
Africa's lion population has decreased in size by approximately 42 percent over the past two decades.- African Wildlife Foundation
A century ago, packets of wild dogs in Africa consisted of approximately 100 members. Now the average package size is 10.- American Museum of Natural History
Each year, poachers take more than 38 million animals out of the jungles of Brazil to meet the global demand for illegal wildlife. Most are birds destined to become caged pets for people in Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Madrid or New York.- National Geographic
Biodiversity in Latin America has decreased by approximately 83 percent since the 1970s.- Defenders of Wildlife
The population of marine vertebrates decreased in size by approximately 49 percent between 1970 and 2012.- World Wildlife Fund
Approximately 85 percent of the fisheries worldwide that are commercially fished are at their absolute maximum or are already overexploited.- Organization of the United Nations for Food and Agriculture
People kill more than 100 million sharks around the world each year, often illegally to make shark fin soup.
World Wildlife Fund
More than 650,000 marine mammals die or are seriously injured every year around the world as a result of accidental entanglement or capture in fishing gear. In many cases art is a fishing line that has simply been abandoned.- Coalition of endangered species
Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed by hunters in the United States. That number does not include the millions of animals for which state wildlife agencies do not maintain killing figures.- Delaware Action for Animals
Every year, in the United States, hunters shoot more than 4,000 tons of lead into the environment. This results in the death by poisoning of approximately 20 million animals.- Cooper Ornithological Society
More than 126,000 hunting trophies are imported to the United States each year.- Humane Society of the United States.
There are more than 1,000 captive animal hunting operations in the United States.- Humane Society of the United States.
Thousands of people are arrested for poaching in the United States every year. However, experts believe that only between one and five percent of poachers are captured.- Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
Approximately 180,000 pounds of bushmeat are smuggled into the United States undetected each year.- Alliance of the Pan-African sanctuary
Approximately one in every 20 motor vehicle collisions reported in the United States involves an animal.- Department of Transportation of the United States
There are more than 1.5 million collisions between vehicles and deer each year in the United States.- American Automobile Association
Approximately one billion birds die annually after colliding with glass in the United States.- American Bird Conservancy
More than 11,000 collisions between aircraft and wildlife, mostly birds, took place in the United States last year.- Federal Aviation Administration
Approximately 6,000 tigers are currently kept as pets in the United States. The number is greater than the number of tigers released worldwide.- Born free
More than one million seals died in annual seal hunts in Canada over the past five years. Harp seals are the main targets of hunters. Approximately 97 percent of the harp seals that are killed are puppies less than three months old.- Humane Society of the United States.

Trophy Hunting

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Trophy hunting is the shooting of carefully selected animals, often large games such as rhinos, elephants, lions, cougars and bears, under official government license, for pleasure.
The trophy is the animal (or its head, skin or any other part of the body) that the hunter keeps as a souvenir. It is a booming industry and is legal, although with restrictions on the species that can be hunted, where and when hunting can take place and the weapons that can be used.
Is it the same as "canned" hunting?
Canned hunting is trophy hunting in its most indefensible form, in which animals (especially lions) are raised on ranches and held captive (often in appalling conditions) specifically for hunters to shoot.




Is it really legal to kill endangered species?
Can be. Some countries do allow a small number of endangered species to be killed in the wild by sport hunters and, with the approval of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), it is still possible to carry trophies to home.
Is that why the subject is so controversial?
Yes. Allowing endangered species to be killed by sport is counterintuitive. Poachers are killing about 100 elephants and 3 to 4 rhinos per day, so allowing the trophy hunters to kill even more seems absurd. Critics are also concerned about the mixed messages it sends to the local population: they can not hunt endangered species, but wealthy Westerners can.

 What about the morality of bringing animal trophies?
This is another topic. Most find it difficult to sympathize with someone who pays tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, has everything prepared for them in advance, fires (often incompetently) at an animal at close range, and then waits for the delivery of the carefully prepared trophy. .
Where do the trophies go?
USA UU It imports legally no less than 126,000 animal trophies each year, and the EU around 11,000 to 12,000 (representing 140 species, including from African elephants to American black bears), not counting the trophies taken in the countries themselves.
Does everyone agree that trophy hunting is bad?
No. South Africa allows hunting for trophies of the 'Big Five' and many other species, for example, while Kenya has banned trophy hunting since 1977. Even conservationists can not agree: many argue for more compassionate solutions for conservation challenges, while others Believe that trophy hunting can be a good thing.
How can it be good?
While there are many examples of what is bad (the largest declines in lion populations occur in countries with the highest hunting intensity, for example), an apparently good example is cited again and again. It is claimed that trophy hunting has played a role in the recovery of the southern white rhinoceros population in South Africa.
The argument is that by allowing private landowners to conduct a limited trophy hunt, they have been given an incentive to maintain and protect rhinoceroses (albeit in large enclosures). There is also an argument that income from trophy hunting helps conservation by re-entering desperately poor communities.




That's right?
Trophy hunters spend large sums of money, but where it ends is another matter. Critics argue that the hunting elite and corrupt government officials deflect up to 97 percent.
In addition, these are unique payments, you can not kill the same animal twice, while a lion or a rhinoceros can earn money from traditional ecotourism for many years. And that, apart from moral issues, is the heart of the matter.