https://www.bloomberg.com/news...pressure-hunters-say



Zambia Cancels Hippo Cull After Activist Pressure, Hunters Say

By Antony Sguazzin

June 5, 2019, 4:21 AM CDT


Zambia has canceled a plan to cull 2,000 hippos in the Luangwa Valley after a concerted campaign by animal activists, the hunting group contracted to kill the animals said.

“Since it was officially announced in 2018 that the cull program will commence in 2019, we have been bombarded with hate mail, calls and messages on social media and mainstream media,” South Africa’s Umlilo Safaris said in a letter posted on the AfricaHunting.com website. “The abuse and profanity does get to you.”

The plan by the Zambian government was initially planned in 2016 before being canceled and reinstated two years later. The cull, which would have seen the animals shot by trophy hunters, was needed to stop the spread of anthrax among wild animals, the government had said.

https://www.africahunting.com/...ram-cancelled.50777/


Link to Africahunting regarding the cancellation.

So, anonymous loudmouths dictate wildlife policy now. Good to know.

Some got paid!

A little over ten years ago, I was the MD of a company in Zimbabwe that employed 2,500 people. Africa being Africa, everybody had it out for everybody else, and I would sometimes get more anonymous letters than legitimate mail.They just went in the bin. I'd immediately go to the bottom, and anything from "your friend", "concerned worker", &c.got trashed. I made it a dismissable offence. It just goes to show First World ARAs are out of the same mould as Third World minimum-wage staff. Why anyone pays any attention to anything anonymous I don't know.

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
So, anonymous loudmouths dictate wildlife policy now. Good to know.

I love how the anti-hunting community jump on this and claim they are the reason it was stopped.

I have personally been against this for two reasons:
1. There has been no scientific evidence that a cull was necessary.
2. It was a South African operator who was going to carry out the cull. Nothing against South Africans. I just think it should be handled by professional Zambians. And I also know the people who did the cull last time it was carried out and they informed me that carrying out the cull can in no way be financially viable unless it is done in a dodgy way.

I congratulate the people who actually managed to stop this. They know who they are but have no need to claim it. And they are in no way against hunting.