Last male northern white rhino dies

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Dave Allen fought a few weeks ago 😂

[Batman]

Dave Allen fought a few weeks ago 😂

Funny how the male white rhino became extinct just after he changed his name to the Doncaster De La Hoya

[X]

I know it legal in some places, but I have to say I don't agree with trophy hunting. I don't understand how someone gets a kick from shooting s leopard from far away with a high powered rifle. Maybe that's just me. I disagree with it, but accept that others don't.

In terms of poaching, we all seem to agree that it's bad. But I lived in Tanzania and I understood why a guy whose family will starve to death unless he provides for them might turn to poaching. I get that, and I have seen people do it. I defy anybody on here who says they would refuse to kill a giraffe, and who would let their family die instead.

It seems the main difference is the trophy hunter has money, and the poacher offer does not. So, that's ok then .

in terms of motivation a) that's a really beautiful animal, and I respect it's power and grace. I have money, so I'd like to kill it and keep bits of it to show off to my friends or b) That's just an animal, and I live near lots of them. My family will die unless I harvest those animals. It's them or us. I have no money but foreigners think they are magic

In my view, the problem is the consumer. Some uneducated savage who thinks eating tiger bones will help them get a hardon is the problem .... especially now they have money.

[El Kabong]

I guess poachers in the United States and poachers in other areas have different motivations. Poachers here are after antlers (for mounts), skins/furs (for various things), and very seldom they are after meat. Poachers in Africa seem to be after ivory, skins/furs, and certain organs used as homeopathic remedies.

If I was to hunt in Africa (which I'm quite certain I'll never do) then I'd probably be after animals very similar to white tailed deer some sort of antelope or gazelle. I'd only shoot a predator if it were a problem in the area.

My view on hunting is you take and make use of everything you can from what you harvest otherwise you're doing it wrong. Also you need to know the population for that animal in the area you're hunting because if you hunt a place until there are no more of that animal to hunt then well you've got no more hunting left to do.