Outside of the animals that are high dollar scores for poachers, the land there is good for hunting or raising cattle, not much else. If you raise cattle you don’t want them to compete for resources with the native animals so you kill them off. Literally the only reason most of those animal populations still exists is because people hunt there.
I primarily hunt whitetails and I always laugh at those outdoors shows where the "hunter" only shoots 200+" whitetails, but he's "hunting" for 10 minutes on a game farm and only cares about the rack… that to me is pretty pathetic, not to mention unrealistic unless you have money…
But the other side of the spectrum are the hunters who shoot everything that walks by… that's not good for the wildlife either, nor is it sustainable for your freezer…
There's gotta be a middle ground… when you can shoot a doe and a buck with your license, and then the state gives you a bonus doe tag for $10, and you can get one bonus tag per day, that destroys the deer population. Especially on public land… and then you get people not wanting to hunt because there is nothing to shoot…
Well on another note, if the people there werent exploited for cheap labor from big worldwide multi billion dollar companies then the poachers might not need to poach..
Outside of the animals that are high dollar scores for poachers, the land there is good for hunting or raising cattle, not much else. If you raise cattle you don’t want them to compete for resources with the native animals so you kill them off. Literally the only reason most of those animal populations still exists is because people hunt there.
I primarily hunt whitetails and I always laugh at those outdoors shows where the "hunter" only shoots 200+" whitetails, but he's "hunting" for 10 minutes on a game farm and only cares about the rack… that to me is pretty pathetic, not to mention unrealistic unless you have money…
But the other side of the spectrum are the hunters who shoot everything that walks by… that's not good for the wildlife either, nor is it sustainable for your freezer…
There's gotta be a middle ground… when you can shoot a doe and a buck with your license, and then the state gives you a bonus doe tag for $10, and you can get one bonus tag per day, that destroys the deer population. Especially on public land… and then you get people not wanting to hunt because there is nothing to shoot…
Early people to the americas mostly hunted to survive, food, clothes, tools, etc.
So they admit that trophy hunters just want the trophy and dont gaf about conservation bc they cant bring back something
Well on another note, if the people there werent exploited for cheap labor from big worldwide multi billion dollar companies then the poachers might not need to poach..