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He is watching to see if the hunting community is going to step up to the plate and do the right thing...if so...he will help them.

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Trophy hunting is likely to have contributed to the declines in lion and cougar populations in many areas. Over the past 25 yrs, the steepest declines in cougar and lion harvests occurred in jurisdictions with the highest harvest intensities (Fig. 3a). Similarly, hunting blocks with the highest lion offtakes per 1000 km2 in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve showed the steepest declines between 1996 and 2008 (r2 = 0.26, n = 45 blocks, P = 0.0004). The Selous is the largest uninhabited hunting area in Africa (55,000 km2) and has long been the premier destination for lion trophies. Across jurisdictions, declining harvests were unrelated to habitat loss for either lions or cougars (Fig. 3b) or to snow conditions for cougars. We modified our population simulation models to estimate impacts of sport hunting in a changing environment and found that habitat loss only imposes an additive effect on the impact of trophy hunting (Supporting Information Fig. S4). Note that habitat loss in many African nations has been so extensive (Fig. 3b) that lion offtakes have failed to recover for 10–20 yrs following the peak harvest years except in Namibia.

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I know, I said I wouldn't comment any further on this, I read every word of every post on this issue. I just could not stop myself.....

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For those who will not take the time to read the entire paper, any thoughts on the above quote?

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Originally posted by smarterthanu:

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He is watching to see if the hunting community is going to step up to the plate and do the right thing...if so...he will help them.

So you are saying if he thinks the hunting community doesn't agree with him then he will do the wrong thing. I guess a man has to have standards.

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Lane, then how does splitting or alienating the hunting community helping move LCTF forward?

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I am saying he is going to do what "he" sees as best for the lion.

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So lets say for instance you are setting quotas and you actually decide to reduce your harvest to positively impact a population. He will take that data and say your population is in decline. Its cooking the books.

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These simulations assume a fixed harvest whereas many wildlife agencies reduce their quotas in response to lowered offtakes (Supporting Information Fig. S3 also see ref. [30]). However, offtakes may often be maintained at constant levels through compensatory increases in hunting effort, running the risk of an “anthropogenic Allee effect” [31]–[32]. Hunters in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania maintain their lion harvests by shooting males as young as 2 yrs of age (Fig. 5). In Zimbabwe, high lion offtakes were sustained from 1995 until 2005 by allowing females on quota [3], and the duration of lion safaris increased by nearly 18% from 1997 to 2001 (Supporting Information Fig. S3). Similarly, hounds have been used to hunt leopards in Zimbabwe since 2001, potentially masking a continued population decline.

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originally posted by gerryb:
i am scared of retaliation from any of the scientist.

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I just think if we could hit the rewind and speak with a common voice things may be different,