Powerful stuff, for those that have an open mind to education.

Unfortunately, I don't believe the minds of some anti-hunters can ever be changed. They don't want to save wildlife, they just want to stop hunting. Period.

"The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it".

That should be some organizations tag line.

Great video. These types of videos need to continue to be funded by hunters, DSC, SCI, etc.

What a great storyboard. Very well done! Need this type of message on main stream media.
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This one is going up on my FB and website also.

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Originally posted by Greg Brownlee:
Great video. These types of videos need to continue to be funded by hunters, DSC, SCI, etc.

This should be seen by Dob Beyer and all the others who think with their hearts instead of their minds.

I just shared it on Facebook. Everyone else should do the same so it will spread as far and wide as possible.

Very well done

So..this is excellent and well produced
AND. Has 128 views only!
The Cartoon we all just watched has nearly 1M!!!
How do we get these positive messages to outside audiences like that? No...not us. Not "Internal" audiences of SCI, DSC, NRA....
That Cartoon had 725k External watches.
I'll post to my Facebook etched but how do we get a massive external view..?

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Originally posted by Poyntman:
So..this is excellent and well produced
AND. Has 128 views only!
The Cartoon we all just watched has nearly 1M!!!
How do we get these positive messages to outside audiences like that? No...not us. Not "Internal" audiences of SCI, DSC, NRA....
That Cartoon had 725k External watches.
I'll post to my Facebook etched but how do we get a massive external view..?

That is what we need to solve.

It is so obvious and who denies that will only be for financial reasons !
Excellent piece of work.

Very good video. Too bad the non believers will not open their minds to information that's available.

As fantastic as this video is, it has been viewed a grand total of less than 600 times as of this morning.

This is a major problem we need to solve. Personally, I have no idea how to. I wish I did.

IVEN CARTER '' FINGER PRINTS'''

BEST I HAVE SEEN SO FAR

IF YOU KNOW 9 PEOPLE ''GET IT OUT TO THEM''

THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT HERE LARRY

IT'S NOT PREACHING TO THE DEACONS

WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO SING TO THE WORLD

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Originally posted by stradling:
IVEN CARTER '' FINGER PRINTS'''

BEST I HAVE SEEN SO FAR

IF YOU KNOW 9 PEOPLE ''GET IT OUT TO THEM''

THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT HERE LARRY

IT'S NOT PREACHING TO THE DEACONS

WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO SING TO THE WORLD

I posted this in my FB. I think it got 2 reactions.

Excellent video that no one is watching. Very sad.

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Originally posted by Wesheltonj:
Excellent video that no one is watching. Very sad.

It is 17 minutes long. I wonder what percentage of the views actually watched the video until the end?

People with a keen interest will watch, but I doubt it would hold most millennials attention for very long, which means it will not spread via social media, which means once again the message only exists in an echo chamber of like-minded individuals.

Per a quick google search:

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On an average day when we were drafting this post, we found that in the top ten most popular YouTube videos, the shortest was 42 seconds, and the longest was 9 minutes and 15 seconds. The average video length was 4 minutes and 20 seconds

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* Favor short videos. If you can make it shorter and make all the same points, do so.
* Make sure to start off energized, and get the important stuff in. Your audience will start to disappear over the length of your video.
* Don’t hold your call to action to the end, especially for longer videos.

The problem is IMHO is that most entities publishing "hunting as conservation" content for social media don't understand the SM habits of their intended audience, assuming they know who that audience actually needs to be (hint...it's not "anti-hunters").

one of the best videos i have seen
thanks for sharing larry

Excellent video, already posted it on Facebook. Spread it far and wide.

Excellent video.

Posted on FB as well. Probably too long for someone with little interest.

I have over 4800 "friends" on Facebook. I posted this video this morning and only 4 "likes" all day. Sad, sad, sad.

People need to understand the 'Hunting Paradox'; that is, only hunters actually care about wildlife. All the so-called wildlife lovers, sitting and blathering away on Facebook, living in some comfortable modern city, really have no clue, about TRUE conservation. Yet they vote against hunting, which paradoxically, works against the wildlife. Sadly, none of those same people will ever see this video. Everybody should read the book 'Mahoboh', by Ron Thomson.

Thanks for all the generous comments - and thanks for posting Larry - This short video has been put on a custom thumb drive and will be distributed to all of 2500 delegates attending CITES- who knows maybe it will help something.

you will notice that there are no credits at all in spite of peoples generosity making this possible, this is in an attempt to get wider distribution and sidestep some of the politics that may stop that happening - if anyone would like to add it to their own youtube channel or distribution please email me and i will be happy to send you the file for you to upload -

Ivan, great stuff, please email me a download link so I can put it on my Youtube channel.

I will also circulate on my social media if that is OK?

Rgds,
K

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Ivan, great stuff, please email me a download link so I can put it on my Youtube channel.

I will also circulate on my social media if that is OK?

Rgds,
K

Kiri:

Just copy the link I posted.

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Originally posted by larryshores:

quote:

Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Ivan, great stuff, please email me a download link so I can put it on my Youtube channel.

I will also circulate on my social media if that is OK?

Rgds,
K

Kiri:

Just copy the link I posted.

Thanks Larry I'll take a look

Up to just shy of 16,000 views

Just over 19,000 views.

An outstanding production!

Watching that got me thinking. Could the Cecil debacle ultimately have been a good thing? There is no doubt that hunters & outfitters have needed to clean up their act in many areas of Africa.

Maybe Cecil was a tipping point?

An opportunity to clean up and at the same time show the world the good that is achieved by sustainable, ethical and well managed hunting

The anti's will never go away but we have an opportunity to state the facts and swing the tide

Great video. Truely horrified by the still living rhino at the end with the cleaved face.

Hope it causes people to think.

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Originally posted by drongo:

quote:

Originally posted by Greg Brownlee:
Great video. These types of videos need to continue to be funded by hunters, DSC, SCI, etc.

This should be seen by Dob Beyer and all the others who think with their hearts instead of their minds.

This was a PHASA production and was co-ordinated by one of the PHASA office ladies Marriana especially for the PHASA and HAWASA booth at CITES.
Big thank you to Ivan Carter , DSC , PHASA and others who contributed to this amazing video.

So if any South African outfitters say "What dies PHASA do for me ..... A lot !! That's for bloody sure.

A very well presented basket of facts, not the ignorant rhetoric so often coming from folks who have absolutely no idea of what TRUE wildlife conservation is all about!

IMO this film should be shown in every school in the free world!

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Originally posted by leopards valley safaris:

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Originally posted by drongo:

quote:

Originally posted by Greg Brownlee:
Great video. These types of videos need to continue to be funded by hunters, DSC, SCI, etc.

This should be seen by Dob Beyer and all the others who think with their hearts instead of their minds.

This was a PHASA production and was co-ordinated by one of the PHASA office ladies Marriana especially for the PHASA and HAWASA booth at CITES.
Big thank you to Ivan Carter , DSC , PHASA and others who contributed to this amazing video.

So if any South African outfitters say "What dies PHASA do for me ..... A lot !! That's for bloody sure.

Fully agree Dave!! Sorry we could not meet, maybe another time.

Ivan,

Is there any chance this video could be entered/played in any film festivals that are held all over the world? It certainly has the quality in production. Maybe there is some sort of short documentary categories it could be entered in?

Those are the types of people that need to see this......

Shared on Facebook. The anti's won't be open to facts, but I know a lot of non-hunters that get blasted daily by the anti rethoric. They are still open to being educated at this point.