13 February 2010, 00:42
shakariSomeone please sort this pillock out for me please
I can't comment or even write to the editor from here but if anyone out there can, please do.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tra...fricas-wildlife.html13 February 2010, 01:00
ChetNCSteve,
Is this your way of keeping your client's blood pressure up in the off season?
13 February 2010, 02:01
Idaho SharpshooterI did post a comment. I was even polite, merely suggesting that the countries who support sport hunting provide the cash influx that is the lifeblood of those countries, and most of the fresh meat that villagers depend on.
regards,
Rich
13 February 2010, 03:07
Bwana BundukiThere are studies that support the notion that sport hunting and hunting camps leave a much smaller ecological foot print than the camera weilders.
Think about it.
Still and all this is a protectionist stance.
Jeff
13 February 2010, 07:23
jdollaras soon as the author said the bull elephant weighed 2 tons, i knew i was in for a load of Disney bullshit.
13 February 2010, 12:58
ScriptusTo think that starry-eyed little bunny huggers all over the world believe this horse wallop.
13 February 2010, 16:55
JBrownI wonder if there is any truth in any of these quotes....
quote:
One conservationist in east Africa told of an official arriving at the conservancy he manages with a black briefcase which, when opened, revealed $200,000 in crisp notes.
“This was what he was offering me to allow some Middle Eastern clients to come big game hunting in this proscribed park,” he told me. “I told him to get off the conservancy immediately.”
quote:
Bell and the Jouberts are taking their anti-hunting message into the heartland of big game safaris: Tanzania. Trophy fees there have remained the same since the mid-Eighties, making Tanzania the international hunter’s bargain basement. Though there are no statistics available on the number of animals shot annually, it is estimated that Tanzania generates $13 million from what is coyly termed “wildlife utilisation”, which includes hunting and live animal capture. In South Africa, which does keep statistics, more than 54,000 animals of all species were hunted in 2006, earning the country more than $250 million in trophy fees. Big business, indeed.
"Bargain basement".... I have heard the prices in Tanzania called many things, but bargain basement wasn't one of them!
quote:
“We are buying the hunting licences in the Selous Game Reserve and tearing them up,” says Joubert with glee. “Our total bill will be close to $90,000 this year. We are saying that we are going to own these animals for the year.”
I wonder how many of Mr. Joubert's clients believe this tripe. I would love the chance to ask to see the receipts.
The sad truth is that these idealistic bunny huggers actually do believe this because they want to believe their photo safari fees are saving Africa's wildlife.