(11-16-2017, 04:59 PM)Kane Wrote: Nice try.... but

The Trump administration is reversing an Obama-era ban on hunters importing trophies of elephants killed in Zambia and Zimbabwe during government-approved big-game expeditions.

Maybe you should take issue with the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe

Also... not killing Elephants for "fun"

Yes, killing elephants for fun. Why else would you kill an endangered species? Are you gonna bring the meat home and make elephant burgers? I am a hunter and what I kill, I eat, (squirrel, rabbit, deer.) Big game hunters sicken me almost as much as poachers and often the two go hand in hand. Do I approve of what the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe are doing? No, but the U.S. has no control over what they do. I'm only concerned about America and by lifting this ban, we are contributing to the slaughter of endangered species. It's not like the world is overrun with elephants and they need population control. The numbers are low enough that the populations can regulate themselves.

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(11-16-2017, 05:00 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: I'm split on it.

I don't like the killing of these animals on principle..

But the hunters do have to pay $25,000 - $50,000 for the "right" to hunt one of them legally and allegedly all that money goes to supporting conservation of the animals in Africa...

Taking away from a small population, so you can save the animals that are left makes no sense.

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(11-16-2017, 05:44 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(11-16-2017, 05:40 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Sounds a bit hypocritical

A little but it makes sense when you think about local Africans putting a few dozen AK47 bullets in an Elephant, cut the Ivory right from its face and get paid $300 for it from, more than likely, a Chinese ivory dealer.

One American/European Big Game hunter paying over $25,000 for one Elephant buys a lot of security against those local Africans.

If you shoot the poachers on site and leave the bodies on stakes as warning to other poachers, you knock down the problem.

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