this guy seems to think that hunting should be banned, as it is no longer a justifiable conservation tool. http://africaanswerman.com/

"The main reason big game hunting should be immediately ended throughout almost all of Africa is corruption and bad policy. The same reasons that conservatives use to deplore even humanitarian aid to emerging nations is grossly evident in Africa’s management of sports hunting, today."

Sounds like he is advocating throwing up our hands, letting the animals be slaughtered and putting up strip malls

This is what has become known as "The Idiots Way To Gain Attention"

When someone has nothing useful to write about, he picks an easy subject that is bound to get some attention from like minded idiots.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
This is what has become known as "The Idiots Way To Gain Attention"

When someone has nothing useful to write about, he picks an easy subject that is bound to get some attention from like minded idiots.

+1, couldn't have said it any better than that.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
When someone has nothing useful to write about, he picks an easy subject that is bound to get some attention from like minded idiots.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the desired end product of the US education system these days; like-minded idiots. There sure seems to be a lot of them lately. Karl Marx referred to them as "useful idiots."

This country needs an enema.

Some people just hit their heads one too many times when they were young
It's the same thing with veggie eaters, pine cone eaters, Prius drivers, politicians, cops ... You name it. Same controlling personalities that always want to tell other people how to live according to them. The dogooders that spent their teens and twenties in purple haze and now they have all the answers for rest of us
They wouldn't make it through one winter in Ice age

Supercilious twats, every last one of them. Liberal wankers living on bran and soy milk with a couple sedatives thrown to really confuse their far too few brain cells.

Hunting and science need to work side-by-side. Hunters need to embrace science based conservation. In-turn scientists need to see sport-hunting as "the best method" to keep populations in check while giving wildlife value.

Once the 2 factions conjoin...the "true and pure antis" have no teeth.

This is what LCTF has been about from the beginning...bringing science and hunting together.

One thing that IS true in the piece is that corruption is wide-spread and it does get in the way of science-based best-practice conservation.

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Hunting and science need to work side-by-side. Hunters need to embrace science based conservation. In-turn scientists need to see sport-hunting as "the best method" to keep populations in check while giving wildlife value.

ledvm is correct. If you want a touchstone subject that is a little closer to home to check on your own true attitude about this, examine what your stance is regarding chronic wasting disease and the research and management strategies currently being used to combat it. If you find yourself on the side that is fighting the natural resource agencies, I would submit you are part of the problem and need to support the management activities the science dictates.

Only problem is that a government scientist is now defined as a two to four year indoctrination/degreed in ecology. Or their boss at the department just got a BA in Ecological Theory with a minor in pallet composting.

Who would have ever thought that our game departments would want and pay more for BS/BA in ecology? A biologist with a BS or more, is going to create a bland, realistic program based on solid fact and empirical data. That's problematic for funding and PR when the various groups picket the office. Emotional, unsupportable theory, especially when extrapolated years out gets more attention ($). Especially when there's even a slight chance that it could actually happen.

Not to mention, the director can be an appointed politician, with zero relevant education.
I agree, proper management by professionals should dictate hunting policy.

I never used the word "government" to precede the word "scientist" in any post I wrote. Most of the scientists I work with are independent researchers.

Government bureaucrats are usually capable of making ice cream taste bad.

Few are more libertarian than I...government and proper science do NOT go hand-in-hand.