Yeah... from what I've heard you can buy permits to hunt the older lions. This is because the older lions fight the younger lions who try to mate with females, which in turn causes them to not breed, and you know, they're endangered and all. So hunting the older lions helps the species, and the money from the permits you can buy go towards helping lions. Basically they're going to be killed either way, by the park rangers or tourists, but at least one way helps provide more money towards the solution.
She bid a **** ton of money to be allowed to hunt that lion because it was gonna try to take over a pride on a reserve. If it had it would have killed all the cubs of the previous alpha male and seriously ****** the conservation effort.
All of these ignorant people hating on a girl who hunted an older infertile lion which is done to make sure the pack doesn't die out do to the infertile male lion holding onto the females.
>>#7, you forget that hunting lions can be done legally. They pick your lion for you and often it'll be one old-ass lion that's infertile, but still stronger than the younger lions. Because he's stronger, he keeps the fertile younger lions off the lionesses and thus halts growth.
Y'all acting like she snuck in the reservoir, shot some random lion and did a photoshoot.
People don't hunt Lions for food. They hunt them for some sick sense of accomplishment. Congrats, you held a machine and pressed a trigger and the endangered animal that didn't even pose a threat to you is now dead. Good job. That was a real triumph of human resilience.
Well, looks like I ****** up. In all honesty, I had no desire to enlarge those pictures or look closer at them, but that's my mistake and the point still stands; it takes a special kind of asshole to kill a lion for any reason other than self defense, and much more of an asshole to act like it's some kind of epic conquest.
You know that African nations sell licences to kill older lions to rich people. That 'unjustified killing' of that lion just helped fund the conservation program of the rest of the lions. Selective hunting also helps keep the population strong as it gets rid of older male lions who no longer breed, but are too strong for new breeding lions to take over.
>>#19, you're both correct. I don't know why this didn't occur to me, especially since, having studied in Nepal, I know that similar policies exist for rhinos there. It's an unfortunate policy to have to resort to, but it's the best that can be done considering it's impossible to completely stop poaching.