The elephant numbers in Kenya, Zimbabwe, etc are growing - in countries where elephants Posted: Mar 7th, 2018 - 12:21 pm In Reply to: Elephants live in Africa and India. They set the laws. - He lifted the import ban. They
are treated as a resource. Kenya made trading in them illegal so there is no incentive to keeping them alive.
My information is straight from people who live in Africa and who work with land management and animal behavior. Treating elephants as a natural resource and managing them as such, both for trophy hunting and for regulated ivory sale (as opposed to black market poaching) is their only hope for long-term survival. It they have no monetary value, no one will care. They are too big to feed as a "pet."
Every animal that's managed as a game species in the US, from whitetail deer to elk to bears, is more abundant today than 100 years ago. If Africa can do the same for elephants, then elephant numbers will climb back to what they were once. If not, they'll just be extirpated.
Personally, I don’t get the appeal of trophy hunting, but I'm just trying to look at what, why, how. We hunt to fill our freezer.
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