https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...-of-hunting-africa#/

Join the fight for the future of hunting! The facts are on the side of hunters, but they rarely reach the non-hunters. This 50 min. TV documentary will explain hunting tourism and its benefits for nature conservation to an audience of non-hunters. We will take the honest approach and show hunting tourism and what it does for wildlife, nature and local communities. The film is funded entirely by the hunting community.

Join the fight for the future of hunting! The facts are on the side of hunters, but they rarely reach the non-hunters. This 50 min. TV documentary will explain hunting tourism and its benefits for nature conservation to an audience of non-hunters. We will take the honest approach and show hunting tourism and what it does for wildlife, nature and local communities. The film is funded entirely by the hunting community.

Hunters know it. Hunting is nature conservation! We know that the influx of money from hunting tourism is one of the major reasons for the huge success of nature conservation in southern Africa. The actual results achieved in just a few decades are mind blowing. More than ten thousand private nature reserves are now covering an area bigger than most US states. Practically all of these areas are re-wilded livestock farms – this is probably the largest re-wilding project in the history of man! Roughly 25 million large wild animals now thrive in these areas – four decades ago there were less than two million.

The facts are very much in favor of hunting tourism. There is plenty of peer-reviewed science supporting that claim. Respected international organizations like IUCN fully acknowledge the value of hunting tourism in relation to nature conservation. Nevertheless, hunting tourism - some call it “trophy hunting” - is under constant attack on all fronts. Politicians, celebrities, and millions of “internet experts” are working hard to ban “trophy hunting” on moral grounds. Sadly the facts of the matter are largely ignored in the debate. Few reporters in main stream media are hunters and they are typically more interested in causing moral outrage than providing in-depth information to their audience. We live in a post-factual era and we need to get our side of the story out there!

Teddy said it more than a century ago. Let's raise the voice of the hunters again!

A simple idea!
Since hunters cannot rely on mainstream media reporters or independent movie directors to tell our story, we believe we have to do it ourselves. That is why we want to produce an honest TV documentary specifically for an audience of non-hunters about hunting tourism and nature conservation from a practical point of view. We need that input in the debate!

We are going to illustrate all the facts with clear case studies on the ground in the African bush. We will show what a hunting area looks like and we are going to show the depressing agricultural alternative. We will let the people involved tell their story. Trackers, camp staff, rangers, professional hunters, outfitters and government officials alike will put human faces and destinies on the numbers. Facts are going to weigh much heavier than emotions in this documentary! There will be no assumptions. Nobody else has ever really done this.

The nature of hunting will be a 50 minute TV documentary in English. It will be filmed on location in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and possibly Mozambique and/or Botswana.

This project will be produced in collaboration with Pace Productions and Byron Pace, who has specialized in producing documentaries on controversial subjects. With an in depth knowledge, his team is ideally placed to present this complex narrative in a way people can relate

The nature of hunting is endorsed by the Danish Hunting Association and F.A.C.E.

Interesting. Once its produced , where will it be airing ?

Collectively we need to support this endeavour and others like it.
The antihunting trolls are well organised, adept at media manipulation and vocal.
I believe we cannot afford to waste time procrastinating over the finer points or debating the detail.
Let's just get behind this, get it done and then we can develop the appropriate avenues for show or distribution.
Perhaps, if every fund supporter was given a copy we could then network viewing through our own contacts.

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Originally posted by Jan Dumon:
Interesting. Once its produced , where will it be airing ?

Jan,

I am not involved in any way.

I sent him an email, but I think he is out hunting and he hasn't got back to me yet.

It is the roe buck rut time in Northern Europe, so I'll give him a couple weeks and get in touch with him again. If I can find a phone I'll try calling him in the next few weeks to discuss it.

Between AR and Africanhunting.com we ought to be able to figure something out.