Trophy hunting has lots of tangible benefits for conservancies and inhabitants of rural areas where these animals exist. Most people don't realize that there are subsistence farmers that have to deal with these large game animals destroying their farms and livestock. Farmers will and do kill endangered animals (cheetahs) if they are attacking their cattle. Allowing money to be made off of the culling of these animals (of course at an appropriate level) is a way to create value in the mind of these people.
As I told someone else, the discussion is not about trophy hunting. The discussion is about how to produce an environment where the people that deal daily with these animals and the animals themselves can thrive.
Trophy hunting has lots of tangible benefits for conservancies and inhabitants of rural areas where these animals exist. Most people don't realize that there are subsistence farmers that have to deal with these large game animals destroying their farms and livestock. Farmers will and do kill endangered animals (cheetahs) if they are attacking their cattle. Allowing money to be made off of the culling of these animals (of course at an appropriate level) is a way to create value in the mind of these people.
As I told someone else, the discussion is not about trophy hunting. The discussion is about how to produce an environment where the people that deal daily with these animals and the animals themselves can thrive.