What can I say? Here

You could say that here is a perfect opportunity for hunter and sportsman to showcase the importance and values of hunting.
Or, as it in the hands of the media we can watch and see what and where the support comes from for either side in this discussion.
Be nice to have the resources and know how to spin this right back into our court and champion recreational and professional hunting.
There is always the danger that when sportsmen (Rugby professionals) go hunting that the assumption is that its sport. Hunting is not sport.

Actually, if you go back enough, hunting, fishing and bird-shooting are sport. Cricket and rugby and all the others are games ....

When man was pitted again wild beast in a canned arena arrangement[wild hunt simulation] , like at the Colosseum,
it was considered a game/form of entertainment,.. was it not?

Society at that time embraced the whole process, it was used effectively by leaders/politicians to ingratitude the public,
to further those leaders rule/public office.
even the loss of human life by pitting gladiator against gladiator was deemed acceptable by the public at large.
thrown into the whole mix of exhibitions at the Colosseum games days, was also the public execution of criminals.
and at the lower end there were low intensity-light hearted mock battles and acts of buffoonery, where no one was harmed.
...There was something there for everyone on the day...

Although hunting in those days[be it for food or pleasure] was not just a rich mans game, the upper class Romans used hunting
to demonstrate their status and power, there was glory to be had in being seen to temper nature.
Even back then, the growth of the Empire and hence growth of urban/more serviced economies, contributed to gradual decline in subsistence hunting.

If a person is not subsistence hunting, then its likely they are primarily out to demonstrate their supremacy/dominion/authority, over wild beasts.