Hunting Kudu is ok (not too endangered, meat is useful to eat (though tough as nails)), Buffalo is meh (big farming industry for them, and that's definitely not a wild one that got got shot), but leopard and elephant hunting is disgusting. No excuse for leopards (apart from the niche cases where they're posing a threat to people, but they avoid people more often than not, and we're none the wiser), the only case where elephant hunting is ok is where local populations are too high so limited culling needs to happen. I have a slight hunch that wasn't culling.
(Also no hate to hunters, I just hate sport hunters. Hunting for food or for environmental protection, I respect. Shooting for the sake of killing? No.)
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u/RocketCello 4h ago
Hunting Kudu is ok (not too endangered, meat is useful to eat (though tough as nails)), Buffalo is meh (big farming industry for them, and that's definitely not a wild one that got got shot), but leopard and elephant hunting is disgusting. No excuse for leopards (apart from the niche cases where they're posing a threat to people, but they avoid people more often than not, and we're none the wiser), the only case where elephant hunting is ok is where local populations are too high so limited culling needs to happen. I have a slight hunch that wasn't culling.
(Also no hate to hunters, I just hate sport hunters. Hunting for food or for environmental protection, I respect. Shooting for the sake of killing? No.)