John Varty & Tiger Canyon

[Matias]

@Pckts @Rishi @parvez 

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Everyone made very valid remarks. Canned lions hunting has always been championed by the trophy hunting industry as a deterrent to wild lions' deaths. SCI, as the largest hunting club in the world, has enough influence to promote together with other practical associations that unravel South Africa (SA) as host country of canned hunting. What SCI did was break a paradigm in the world of hunting, which adds up to the restrictive quota of lion derivatives to be exported + public opinion are jointly initiating the destabilization of this lion raising industry. Now, there is no doubt that the creators of this lions will look for a commercial escape valve to get rid of them or continue with them. The very concept of canned hunting can be put in check, many private areas in the SA that use hunting to increase financial resources or to manage quantitative population will be determinant as to the survival of this industry of lions, since today the hunting these places are not considered canned hunting despite the use of fences around their perimeter. PHASA has recently positioned itself in favor of canned hunting for lions and the result has been the creation of a new association representing the interests of professional hunters as opposed to captive-bred lions (CPHCSA).

I know many opinions about trophy hunting, favor or against, and none in favor of the canned hunting of lions. No it is useful to make conjectures about the future of both the canned hunting of lions or what will happen to the wild lions after a possible end of this implement of creation in the SA. Let's just wait, signs that the current context can change. These lion creations for the hunting, entertainment, and bone market (Asian market) may simply relocate. Other countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique etc, can give vent to the needs of this trade. It is a source promising resources for governments with few international public concerns. In the context of reality today, it shows that there are more areas reserved for hunting in Africa than national parks. In the absence of public policies, regulated hunting retains at least habitat. Banning wild lion hunting will lead to many of these concessions (mainly those located in Mozambique and Tanzania) losing their main hunting incentive. For all that I have read, lion trophy hunting is responsible for numerous quantitative reductions, where very few hunting concessions have an increase in the number of resident lions, however, such countries are unable to promote any conservation of lions and other wild species in these hunting blocks. Let's look at the situation in Botswana that in 2014 abolished the trophy hunting. We can not forget that Bostwana is among the four most visited in Africa, and yet it is facing an increase in unprecedented poaching after abolishing ancient hunting blocks and not having implemented a substitute to keep its wildlife population safe.


That's why conservation is so interesting ....... the more we study ........ the more distant are the answers. Reply