http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/c...tion-may-hurt-wildlife-zimbabwe-guide-n402926
I found this story a few minutes ago and wanted to share.
The video is really unrelated to the rest of the story however, read the text. Basically this is coming from a Zimbabwe resident and photo safari guide reinforcing what many here have been trying to get across from the beginning. Lion hunting is not hurting the population and eliminating it will do more harm than good.
Some excerpts
I found this story a few minutes ago and wanted to share.
The video is really unrelated to the rest of the story however, read the text. Basically this is coming from a Zimbabwe resident and photo safari guide reinforcing what many here have been trying to get across from the beginning. Lion hunting is not hurting the population and eliminating it will do more harm than good.
Some excerpts
However, he added that the largest decline of animal populations across Africa had come because of a loss of their habitat, rather than sport hunting. "Sport hunting is not really at the heart of the reduction of animals, it's a lack of space for those animals to live in," he said.
If you look at the hard lifting that's been done in Africa...who's there doing the conservation work? The hunting operators," he added. "Most of them are dedicated conservationists
Photographic safari trips, which Gammon provides, would not bring in enough money on their own to persuade cash-strapped governments "that these areas should be preserved for wildlife and not given over to people and cattle," he said.