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Originally posted by zimFrosty:
This entire thread boils down to one thing.

Funding

The greenies pour enormous amounts of money into research, public awareness,animal rights organisations etc. To this end they are always going to have the edge in terms of putting their points of view across. The old communist ideal of "say something often enough and its becomes the truth" is their ideology. We all know that you can argue until the cows come home with a greenie and even in the face of logic and statistic they will not budge. The greenies have achieved their goal of making hunting not politically correct through masses of money and public awareness.

Obviously a concerted effort by Hunting organisations, pro hunting bodies and indeed hunters themselves can improve this situation vis a vis the public concept of hunting. I think we make the mistake of saying we need Pro Hunting researchers to provide information and data etc. Researchers who are cogniscant of all stakeholder interests and ones who will provide unbiased and untainted data is what is needed.

My reason for saying this is simple. In some areas, there is a problem with lion hunting as populations have suffered and the species has suffered. In other areas, lions have flourished and numbers improved. Unbiased and specific research would allow both the Greenies and the hunting fraternity to look at best practice scenarios and ultimately do whats best for the species, which IMO benefits both the greenies and the hunters.

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Originally posted by Zig Mackintosh:
zimFrosty

You are 100% right, a researcher has to be unbiased or else he loses all credibility. We have to be careful of researchers who dance to the piper's tune, much like Packer does.

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We as hunters have to find a way to get $$$ funneled to REAL research! Cause...it will bear out that hunting is the way forward for African Wildlife!