Banning Trophy Hunting Will Exacerbate Biodiversity Loss.
Kenya has banned trophy hunting outright since 1977, and in Botswana, a comparatively wildlife-rich country, a temporary ban in government-controlled hunting areas went into effect in 2014. View.
That this House welcomes the Government's public consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies; notes the strong cross-party support for EDM 1829, Session 2017-19 and that 86 per cent of the British public support an end to trophy hunting; further notes that most UK trophy imports are of threatened species and that the number of trophy imports from captive-bred animals.
In 2014, Botswana outlawed all commercial trophy hunting within it's borders. As expected, this infuriated the hunting industry, who in turn shouted out all sorts of alarmist projections. However, according to Wildlife photographic companies, wildlife areas under photographic tourism delivered 1000 times more benefits toBotswana than the hunting areas.
Trophy hunters are also motivated by the competitions sponsored by trophy hunting organizations. The world’s largest trophy hunting advocacy organization is U.S.-based Safari Club International (SCI) which reportedly has 50,000 members.11 SCI gives hunting awards in dozens of categories, including the Africa.
Im going to explain about the two sided views on hunting for food, trophy hunting, and the hunting for trading valuables of skin, toes, eyes, anything on an animal. c. Hunting, I have always had been open on trying to understand about why we have to eat animals, trade, and learn what is cruel and what isnt. d. Hunting is something where we need to understand both sides of the story.
Trophy hunting is actually beneficial to the conservation of endangered species because it generates the needed monetary resource to sustain wildlife conservation efforts. By regulating the killing of a few members of the species, the wildlife effort can prosper by using the money that rich people pay to hunt a few of these animals.
International pressure to ban trophy hunting is increasing. However, we argue that trophy hunting can be an important conservation tool, provided it can be done in controlled manner to benefit.