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Originally Posted by Inmem58
Glad that piece of shit is dead.
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Hunters pay like $20,000 to hunt an elephant. Then if you get one, you still pay a $10,000 trophy fee. A lot of that money goes back into conservation, some to the locals.
Hunters don't take the meat -- it goes to the locals.
Hunters pay for more than the elephant and that provides local jobs.
I reserve my hatred for the poachers who supply the Chinese ivory market. 70% of ALL ivory goes to China, much of it illegally obtained.
The number of elephants killed by big game hunters paying $20,000 a pop is NOTHING compared to the numbers poached for Chinese ivory. Nothing.
I would never want to kill an elephant. They are too majestic and cool for me, long lived and loyal to their mate. But who am I to tell someone else they can't kill an elephant while I am chowing down on my steak. That would be hypocritical. Just keep the quotas low so as not to deplete the herds.