tanny wrote:
Even organised hunting for the purpose of control etc should not be promoted with any form of trophy display or similar. Control can be carried out in a much more discrete way under the watchful eye of the relevant authority. These trophy hunters travel to so called third world countries as they wouldn't get away with it so easily in their own back yard.
Roll on the day a Lion goes for the trophy kill and gets a Trump or two or any of the boastful idiots we now see exposed on social media.
"Control" of wildlife cost money that governments of those countries can ill afford or are reluctant to fund. Trophy hunters pay lots of money for the privilege of killing the animal and I doubt the animal aware of who killed it.
The meat is distributed to locals and the shooter gets his trophy, I dont see the problem.
Trophy hunters are usually accompanied by local wardens who check the animal has a clean kill.
Poachers on the other hand will sometimes deliberately maim an animal to stop it running away and kill it a close quarters.
Terry