Trophy hunting: A cruel hobby or species conservation? | DW Documentary
Elephants, antelopes, lions. Rich people kill animals threatened with extinction, then hang them on their walls as trophies. On the face of it, trophy hunting seems morally reprehensible. But could it be more complicated?
Trophy hunting is big business. Germany is the second most important country in the world when it comes to trophy hunting. There is no other country in Europe where so many hunters set off every year to shoot animals abroad. Why is this allowed and who benefits from it? Is it just a bloody hobby, or might it contribute to species conservation?
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The arguments from the trophy hunters are very weak!
Conservation is costly. It requires scientists to study ongoing… there are people who are displaced by large game reserves. And should be compensated ongoing. In fact their livelihoods should not just be considered immaterial. There is a large web of "players" who all deserve to be seen in the full circle of conservation. There are always those individuals who do behave in an unscrupulous way and their "Trophy" becomes a debauched spectacle. And too there are those Individual "landowners" who are greedy and disconnected from the "community".
But recently a conservationist who had protect 1000 rhinos for many many years was simply unable to sell those rhinos… Nobody cared! They simply had NO VALUE – they are only valuable to poachers! Imagine somebody pouring millions of dollars of their money towards protecting a critically endangered species and yet comes away with nothing – and I also believe there was a media campaign to discredit them.
There are also complex security teams operating on the ground and 24 hours using high tech satellite monitoring… it all costs money!
There are too many people who have a lot to say about the complex matters of conservation and yet do absolutely nothing to engage and drive the very protection of all these 1000s of species that need protecting and all the many humans that are impacted by the nature reserves.
Which doesn't mean I am a trophy hunter – but I am an educator and work ongoing as a conservationist.
Somebody got to feed the poor….
Excellent documentary from DW. Wildlife existed perfectly well until trophy hunters came along to kill animals and hang heads to show off to their friends.
All critics don’t understand the reality of the ground realities.. When crops are destroyed and invasion of homes living in the conserve
God created animals..and humans soh humanity must take care of animals not killing it
Seak and tiered locals live better.Its better live locals alone in ballans with nature and everything will be regulated by nature.
Well here's a question that I'll ask these trophy hunters, if they're so concerned with conservation and if they really do want to hunt animals for the challenge…. Why not go to Texas and help them hunt their feral pigs? Or why not go to a place where it's unequivocably a good thing to hunt whatever animal?
It's because it's not about conservation, it's like what's said in the video. Status. Or pride or a misguided belief that killing the animal makes them more masculine.
All the other answers just seem to be a bunch of post-colonialist louts trying to justify why they are entitled to murder an elephant or a rhino.
You want to earn a trophy? Do something that’s really meaningful, cause this is meaningless. So what if you have all these trophies? When you die, you won’t bring them with you into the afterlife. But if you put in the effort to preserve them, that’s the true trophy.
On another note, as an aspiring conservationist, watching this really sickens me because nature is beautiful. Why destroy it for our own greed? It needs to be saved before we too suffer from our own actions.
A $350,000 hunt for a critically endangered black rhino in Namibia.
An outfitter advertised its “Trump Special” – a $25,000 hunt for a buffalo, sable, roan and crocodile.
Advertised as a “bargain” was a captive-bred lion hunt for $8,000 in South Africa.
A $6,000 hunt for any six animals that a customer can choose to kill in South Africa. The offerings were: zebras, wildebeest, warthogs, impalas, hartebeest, gemsbok, nyala and waterbuck.
A polar bear hunt in Canada was offered for sale for $35,000.
An Asiatic black bear hunt in Russia sold for $15,000.
A 15-day Alaska hunt to kill a brown bear, black bear, mountain goat and wolf was sold for $25,000.
Between 2014 and 2018, the U.S. imported 2,169 lion trophies, or more
than 433 trophies on average per year (Table 14). All lion trophies
imported into the U.S. during this period originated in Africa. The vast
majority (86%) originated in South Africa, followed by Zimbabwe (6%),
Tanzania (5%), Mozambique (1%), Namibia (1%) and Zambia (1%) (Table
14). Of the 2,169 lion trophies imported, 1,165 (54%) were from lions
bred in captivity with almost 100% of those originating in South Africa
they are all psychopathic
Dear ancestors
400 years and they are still bringing there printed dollar bills and taking the lives of our wildlife. you have to be from a different planet to see beauty in a dried up corpse 😢😢
Trophy hunting made the survival of Markhors in Pakistan.
They earn revenue and helps other animals survive.
But lots of corrupt practices are there involved in trophy hunting
I’ve never understood how people can hunt animals for trophies and have them stuffed and hung on walls. It’s deplorable.
First time I hear about this.thanks for share.but it should be Stop.
Trophy hunters are the lowest division of human being I cuold think of.
DW is the worst news channel, where is your coverage of minority Hindus in Bangladesh.
Any hunter or person who is involved in big game hunting is doing 100 times more for the environment on a daily basis than any of the loud mouths sitting on the sidelines judging ignorantly.
The humans are NOT aliens, they are part of the ecosystem. Every ecosystem has a carrying capacity which when exceeded serious problems arise like overpopulation and disease. So hunting is part of the equation to keep everything in check. But the crazy LEFT will want you to believe you that the "teddy bears" need to be fed and bred like dogs so they can live with other animals and people "in harmony". Let the real professionals speak, people that go to school and deal with these matters for a living, not dubious NGOs that want to "protect".
I bet the girl that finds immoral to tag a price to a life doesn't have any sort of life insurance..
It's an inhumane hobby.
Trophy hunting is despicable.
It’s the only thing that works!
Stop telling African countries how to run their business.
Couldn't care less. Earth needs very few (from global perspective) species to make it perfectly habitable for humans.
What is really important is the green stuff and elimination of industrial coal consumption.
Mein Hund schaute interessiert auf den Bildschirm. Ich glaube, sie hat einen neuen Ehrgeiz💞
1st view 😊
Where is your documentary on Bangladesh Hindus ??
Biased media shame on you