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Zambia: U.S Envoy Wants Big Cats Ban Maintained

US Ambassador to Zambia Eric Schultz has urged Government to keep the ban on hunting big casts and elephants in place until it is established that the numbers support a resumption of hunting.

Ambassador Schultz who earlier this month visited the South Luangwa National Park notes that the best way to establish how many big cats there are in Zambia is by statistical sampling and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles with heat imaging capability.

He says without such reliable estimate, it is courting disaster to reinstate the hunting of big cats as the government and the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) have proposed.US Ambassador

Schultz notes that lions and leopards are not easy to count especially by air and that there is no agreement among stakeholders on how many there are in Zambia.

He points out that the fate of Zambia's rhinos is a good example that there is a different story possible as well that when hunting is neither ethical nor sustainable nor given to responsible hunters it is really no different than poaching and puts at risk the survival of a specie.



Schultz has questioned what will happen to Zambia's tourism industry, already the source of so many jobs and with so much potential to drive future growth, if the big cats or elephants go the way of Zambia's rhinos.

He, however, states that it was gratifying to see that State House is seized with Zambia's poaching crisis and considering drastic action.

Schultz states that while poaching must be eradicated, hunting can be a part of Zambia's tourism industry going forward; albeit a small part.

He says Photographic safaris on the other hand are the backbone of Zambia's tourism industry.

Schultz adds that at hundreds of dollars a night, it doesn't take much to figure out the economic value of Zambia's lions, stating that over the course of their lives they are worth millions of dollars in tourism revenue.

But of course! The US Abassador knows better how to manage african wildlife than the scientists and the Zambian them selves!

Good Hunting
Carl Frederik

Another career diplomat pretending that he really knows something.

See:http://www.allgov.com/news/app...z-140104?news=852073

(Just like his boss, John Kerry.)

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Originally posted by Carl Frederik Nagell:
But of course! The US Abassador knows better how to manage african wildlife than the scientists and the Zambian them selves!

Good Hunting
Carl Frederik

US bureaucrats knowing what is best for everyone else........... gee that is unusual.

Could someone explain to this idiot that rhinos were not driven to extinction in Zambia by sport hunting!

What an imperialist jackass. As far as I know almost nobody goes to Zambia for happy snappy. And it's not either/or ... it's always both/and.

[Q UOTE]Originally posted by Safari2:
Could someone explain to this idiot that rhinos were not driven to extinction in Zambia by sport hunting![/QUOTE]

+10000

I keep telling all you guys that want to bitch and moan about the USF&W (which includes me)...that electing Donald Trump (who's two boys ARE African hunters) to be POTUS would fix all this $h!t!!!

Maybe enough will listen.

Surprise, surprise, another ignorant politician!?!

One lion is worth millions?
The guy is retarded
That's right, who goes to Zambia on vacation?
LMAO

I'm not a follower of the global warming religion, but these types are. Say they do, in some fantasy world, get a photographic tourist industry going and blowing. What about the "carbon footprint" of all those stupid vans put-putting through the bush, almost bumper to bumper full of camera happy tourists?

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Originally posted by ledvm:
I keep telling all you guys that want to bitch and moan about the USF&W (which includes me)...that electing Donald Trump (who's two boys ARE African hunters) to be POTUS would fix all this $h!t!!!

Maybe enough will listen.

At this point I am all in on the Donald. Why not? Can't possibly do worse. This PC shit is going to be the death of this country.

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Originally posted by Safari2:
Could someone explain to this idiot that rhinos were not driven to extinction in Zambia by sport hunting!

You cannot, repeat, CANNOT explain any common sense to any politician!

God, how I hope THEY would become extinct!

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Originally posted by Bwana Bunduki:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
I keep telling all you guys that want to bitch and moan about the USF&W (which includes me)...that electing Donald Trump (who's two boys ARE African hunters) to be POTUS would fix all this $h!t!!!

Maybe enough will listen.

At this point I am all in on the Donald. Why not? Can't possibly do worse. This PC shit is going to be the death of this country.

And...he will reign in the USF&W.

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Bwana Bunduki:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
I keep telling all you guys that want to bitch and moan about the USF&W (which includes me)...that electing Donald Trump (who's two boys ARE African hunters) to be POTUS would fix all this $h!t!!!

Maybe enough will listen.

At this point I am all in on the Donald. Why not? Can't possibly do worse. This PC shit is going to be the death of this country.

And...he will reign in the USF&W.

I agree with your sentiment, but I believe Trump will be the primary reason for Hilary's presidency.

I agree about the Hilary comment. This guy needs to be recalled!

. . . there is one person that is thrilled with Hillary's email issues and the enchantment of the rhetoric gullible with Trump . . .

If Hilary gets elected you know the treatment hunters are in for. But then again the American voters always seem to elect the right person for the job.