After news spread around the world of the killing of Cecil the lion by an American rich dentist The Internet's been in an hustle and uproar . The reviewers called the American dentist a murderer, The locals set up a memorial outside his closed office in Each of Bloomington, Minnesota, and in Zimbabwe, where the hunt took place, Locals are calling for the Dentist's extradition.
Walter Palmer paid $55,000 to kill Cecil The Lion, Walter palmer may face poaching charges about : shooting the lion Cecil with a crossbow after lured it out of a protected national park. Walter Palmer The dentist declared in a statement to a local paper that he believed his hunt was totally legal. "I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt," he said.
in many parts of Africa Trophy hunts are lawful, South Africa, Tanzania and Namibia, buyers can sacrifice hundreds of thousands of dollars for the opportunity to pursue The wildlife in africa. for example Zimbabwe makes $20 million/year from the sport, about 3.2 % of its tourism revenue. An estimated every year more than six hundred 600 lions are killed legally by wealthy tourists .
Some argue that the money earned from this regulated hunting can be reused again into conservation efforts. the World Bank allocated $700,000 Last year,to Mozambique to promote hunting sport as side of a $40 million conservation fund. But populations of highly prized game like lions and other animals, are suffering, natural habitats vanish and resources are depleted . Some conservation advocates consider the sport as unnecessary killing, with hunters that value dead animals higher than live ones.
“If you’re just giving money to kill an animal, it doesn’t make you a conservationist,” said Jeffrey Flocken, a regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. “We don’t have to kill an animal to save it."
Some studies have found that : the permit fees and hunting revenues go back to the national governments and foreign outfitters who arrange the hunts. Instead, only 3 % of it go to local communities.
all of Africa's (Big five starts) game animals -- black rhino , buffalo, elephant, lion and leopard -- are threatened . The Rarity of this animals seems to heighten the madness to hunt them.
Black rhinos and african elephants are endangered ; two months ago a Texas hunter paid $350,000 to kill a black rhino Even though currently rhinos number under 5,000 but that didn't stop the texas hunter from doing it. Recently, studies found that :100,000 African elephants had illegally slaughtered by ivory poachers in three years, and that in the central region the population of the continent has more than halved in the last ten years. in the past twenty years There's been a 42 % drop in lion numbers , and just 400 remain in West Africa.
The Conservation needs sustained funding, so in some cases, hunting permits can really help conservation, said Evan Hjerpe, The director of the Boise, Idaho-based Conservation Economics Institute. But it's difficult to track where all the money goes.
“Trophy hunting can maximize the price of permits, but it can create conservation backlash,” Hjerpe said. “Hunters are targeting the largest and most beautiful species, and that may impede other strains of conservation funding. If certain funders don’t like that there’s a trophy hunt going on, they may withdraw funding for that program. It’s a sticky situation.”
There are many other ways to balance the conservation efforts with the economic interests ,for example : the activists note, Nature tourism offers visitors more wildlife photography opportunities and can be significantly more profitable than poaching: a report found that one elephant brings in over $1.6 million in ecotourism revenue, compared to the $21,000 that its ivory might get on the black market.
In addition, most people of the world find that the regulated sport hunts are distasteful. A 2011 poll commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare found that more than 70 % of Americans would pay to view a lion, while less than 7 % would pay to kill a lion.
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