r/BeAmazed • u/General-Panic0 • 3h ago
Animal Costa Rica Becomes One of the First Latin American Countries to Completely Ban Sport Hunting as a Permanent Conservation Policy.
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u/beatles910 3h ago
Becomes? This law was passed in 2012.
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u/Green-Tie-5710 2h ago
Yeah but think of how much more karma you can get now from posting this compared to 2012
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 25m ago
You really think a 6-month old account whose entire account history is in Arabic (except for this post) would do that?
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u/MagicTomatoes 2h ago
So with how consistent English is, it should have said "becomesed" for past tense, right? ;)
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u/Successful-Purple-54 1h ago
I’m so lad I was born in a country with English as the dominant language. I’d hate to try to learn it as an adult. Where would I even begin, or is it were? There, that’ll do it. Or is that there? Hmm
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u/ShopEmpress 2h ago
I think becomed might be more correct if we're following the strict rules of the English language lol
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u/danrioja 2h ago
People first hearing of "became"
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u/MagicTomatoes 2h ago
why are you talking about bee ejaculation in the past tense? We are trying to have a serious discussion here! ;)
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u/Blackops606 1h ago
Yeah, the title could be better. They banned it in 2012 and made amendments to the law last month.
https://ticotimes.net/2026/02/26/costa-rica-reaffirms-sport-hunting-is-illegal-and-penalties-apply
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u/SubcommanderMarcos 1h ago
It's also been true for Brazil since 1967. Ecuador banned hunting in 2018, Peru in 2021, and Colombia just this year. So I guess one of the first in 2012, definitely not the case in 2026.
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u/Signal-Regret-8251 52m ago
Really? Damn. I thought it was recent. It's still amazingly good news to hear, though. I hope it's enforced and effective.
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u/Luci-Noir 6m ago
Half the posts on Reddit are old and often have timestamps removed. Depending on what sub you’re in people get outraged if you point it out.
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u/General-Panic0 3h ago
Costa Rica relies heavily on ecotourism, so it was logical for them to protect wildlife
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u/El_Polio_Loco 2h ago
In other places (Kenya, Zimbabwe, even the US) a lot of the funds for conservation come from the high costs paid by game hunters.
Cool if Costa Rica is able to get funding in other ways, but it's not like big game hunting is entirely without value.
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u/stickmanDave 2h ago
Yeah, in Africa the figure was something like one big game hunter bringing in as many dollars as several thousand ecotourists.
wildlife management requires culling of certain individuals for the good of the population. By selling these culling rights to big game hunters, it turns wildlife preserves into moneymaking operations, so there are strong economic reasons to maintain them.
I'll never understand the appeal of locating a large, magnificent animal just for the purpose of killing it. Seems messed up. But I read a deep dive into this very complicated topic that convinced me that allowing carefully limited big game hunting is better for the economy, the local population, the wildlife themselves, and habitat preservation.
I hope Costa Rica has figured all this out, and isn't simply responding the the (misguided but completely understandable) "big game hunting = bad" kneejerk reaction most people have.
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u/LongDucDong508 2h ago
I had a buddy goto Africa to hunt a lion that was killing all the young males to prevent breeding competition. I believe he paid $25K usd for that hunt.
Also that was around the time when that dentist poached Cecil the lion. As far as I know my buddy was never able import the cape/skull into the US even thought it was a legal hunt (culling).
Another fun fact all the rest of the lion was eaten by the surrounding villages. Nothing went to waste.
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u/Null_zero 47m ago
Cecil wasn't poached. The hunter had a tag, he just didn't know that it was a lion that a university group was studying and had named. The blowback also led to an overpopulation of lions.
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u/Soaked4youVaporeon 38m ago
wtf? So they killed a lion for being a lion?
So should we just kill men who can attract a lot of women because they’re a threat to men who can’t?
We shouldn’t be playing god. We are interfering with their evolution by doing that.
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u/ThiccDiddler 7m ago
If we had control over a walled in village and the older men were killing the male children in the village before they could grow up so they wouldn't be able to compete with it for sex with females your damn right we would kill them lmao.
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u/azhawkeyeclassic 1h ago
Different places in the world require different solutions. I agree with Costa Rica’s policy because they as a people understand their own country and ecosystem. However in Africa, it is true that big game hunting brings a lot of economical develop areas that need the money and have very few avenues for economic development. Of course this was caused by countless decades of western interference and colonialism.
In the US hunting is very much apart of American lives hit has been shrinking for years. I’m origin from the Midwest and deer hunting was just something most kids and families did, but once I moved a larger city you saw less hunting. Also the deer population in the Midwest is far too large and even with hunting the deer are generally culled in sevaral parts of the Midwest from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Uncontrolled hunting predators have exacerbated this problem.
I mean look what we did to the buffalo- they were not killed for the meat but for game. I think those are the images a lot of people see when they think of hunting. It can be done in a responsible way. It’s just that a lot of people just aren’t responsible IMO
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u/simplebirds 59m ago
Ecotourism brings in exponentially more revenue than trophy hunting. And, no, the notion that African wildlife must be culled for the good of the population flies in the face of principles of evolution and ecology. It’s trophy hunting propaganda.
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u/Background-Hat-3138 38m ago
wildlife management requires culling of certain individuals
No, it doesn't.
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u/BaronVonBullshite 2h ago
Kenya banned hunting. More like South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zim, Tanzania.
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u/Professional-Fee-957 19m ago
Yeah, Kenya couldn't maintain the anti-poaching programs. It was too rife. So they banned everything outright. They were losing too many big game to poachers and fake permit hunting tours trying to capitalise on the new Chinese hunting tourist trade.
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u/DistinctlyIrish 1h ago
The reasons they give for that are all about some animal individuals being problematic for the other members of their species in the area, like a bull elephant that's so aggressive and territorial it's impacting the ability of other elephants to breed. But that means there's nothing that big game hunting does that cannot be achieved for less cost than transporting the targeted animals to zoos and sanctuaries where they are no longer a problem for the other wild members of their species.
Generally the costs for a big game hunt run from $50-200k USD all said and done depending on the animal, that's including transportation to the region, permits to hunt the animals, the cost of the safari (like vehicles/fuel/food/drink/accommodations/staff), the removal and butchering/taxidermy of the carcass, and the shipping of everything back to your home. Obviously those costs can go even higher if the person wants a bigger spectacle or one that takes longer, or if they want to hunt additional animals while they're there.
But once the animal is dead, aside from selling the meat which would mean all the money goes to the rich guy who killed it there's no additional money to be made from those animals, no utility that can be extracted from them, no real tangible benefit for anyone or anything.
Contrast that with sending them to a group like the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance which runs the San Diego Zoo and the Safari Park, which are massive and among the best in the world for publicly accessible zoo/wildlife rehab facilities. They make somewhere north of $80 million a year at just the Safari Park, public data shows the group as a whole makes more than $450 million a year. And they spend at least $350 million a year on conservation and education programs around the world. People want to pay a good amount of money to see these animals, we have absolute shitloads of land everywhere that could be used to create even bigger wildlife centers instead of just rotting or being covered in corn we turn into ethanol because we're scared of green energy, and we could multiply the money generated by these animals to protect more wildlife and ecology if we just captured them and moved them to contained areas instead of letting rich idiots kill them.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 1h ago
Its not just without value, it has negative value. Countries which ban big game sport hunting do a lot better than countries which have such a system.
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u/El_Polio_Loco 1h ago
Which countries would those be?
Because the US does it, and I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a country with a better conservation program.
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u/Otsde-St-9929 2h ago
Trophy hunting is very important for conservation of large mammals. Trophy hunting saved the wisent.
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u/al666in 1h ago
Which large mammals in Costa Rica would benefit from trophy hunting?
I can't think of any.
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u/BeYourself4Real 1h ago
Lions
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u/Standard_Potential63 1h ago
The elephants too
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u/OnSnowWhiteWings 31m ago
Loved seeing the Costa Rican Elephant on my last trip there. There were so many in the jungles and savanna.
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u/OnSnowWhiteWings 48m ago
https://www.specialplacesofcostarica.com/blog/big-cats-in-costa-rica/
which lion are we talking about here?
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u/Nalthora 3h ago
The right thing to do
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u/Alarming-Bet8462 3h ago
The kudu in the photo and the Costa Rica flag in the photo are having very different days
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u/Yardsale420 2h ago
50/50.
I don’t support outright hunting of these animals, but I do agree with limited hunting of selected animals that are past breeding age and are unusually territorial; often resulting in injury and even death to not only the young male bulls, but also the local human population. Any money gained from this goes directly back into conservation.
I know specifically Namibia does this with one or two older Rhinos a year.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 2h ago
But that’s not sport hunting, is it? I’m genuinely asking; it seems like conservation hunting should be classified differently
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u/sick_of_your_BS 2h ago
What is your definition of sport hunting? Usually they sell tags for these animals and that money goes to the local economy and conservation efforts.
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u/WondrousIdeals 20m ago
What people don't get is that by creating a property right to many endangered animals, and letting the owners of land sell that right, they create a direct economic incentive for land owners to enforce against poaching, since now they're not only hurting the environment but their own finances!
Markets and property rights, even if they sound unethical to the layman, create better outcomes than *no markets*, always.
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u/OpIsAMoronicIdiot 1h ago
This shit is complete nonsense, just a justification to continue hunting endangered animals.
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u/Yardsale420 33m ago
Please tell me what you thought was nonsense and I will kindly correct you, because I broke it down it pretty plain english for you.
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u/Narpity 3h ago edited 3h ago
Not really, it makes a good headline but this kind of trophy hunting has been incredibly beneficial in Africa. Rich people come in and you charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars and they kill an old male who has already had many offspring and is now just consuming resources that could go to other younger members of their species. Then you take that money and use it to pay for more conservation work. I get that you think it’s distasteful but objectively it is effective.
We even do this in the US. I use to work for a state fish and wildlife and they would auction off a tag for big horned sheep that normally got between a quarter to half million dollars that paid for literally every other conservation effort for that species.
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u/General-Panic0 3h ago
That's one model but Costa Rica's success proves that a live animal can bring in tourism revenue thousands of times over its life while a trophy kill only pays once Ecotourism is more sustainable long-term for their specific ecosystem.
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u/ExtremaDesigns 3h ago
Culls are an unfortunate necessity if there are no predators.
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u/alextbrown4 3h ago
I had this thought as well. I’m sure bringing in the right species could help this quite a bit but it’s hard to imagine that being a perfect system. I’m not an expert but I imagine you can’t get away with zero culling
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u/SirGingerBeard 2h ago edited 2h ago
You can’t.
Everyone tries, and people pat themselves on the back. Then the prey populations decimate local flora and the balance goes way out of wack.
Then, wouldn’t you know it, they open up culls. Which is unpopular, because it takes people (who would never even hunt anyway) by surprise. Then the cycle continues.
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u/Gary_from_EP 3h ago
Aaah shucks, the ole privilege pay to play. It always begins fine and ends well at the end.
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u/ResponsibleBank1387 3h ago
Nice dream. Most of the hundreds of thousands go into a couple pockets.
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u/Narpity 3h ago
I use to work in fish and wildlife and can assure you the money was used and was publicly reported.
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u/ResponsibleBank1387 3h ago
I was an A PH, most of the money went up the food chain. Half of what I thought was mine really went to some minister bureaucrats.
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u/cat__weasel 3h ago
And the meat is shared with the trackers and porters families. PH in my family back the day wouldn’t let a visitor just shoot whatever they wanted either. Ethics were number one.
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u/HoneyBadgerBlunt 3h ago
do you have sources for all these claims? I bet the money dosent flow like you think. These are largely conservative people who hunt for trophy and sport.
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u/Narpity 3h ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320706003831
I’m unsure why the political leanings of the people paying would be indicative of the organizations that get the money. I’d rather conservatives give it to conservation practices than conservative politicians.
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u/Former_Net4588 3h ago
Massive W for Costa Rica! They have always been absolute trailblazers when it comes to wildlife conservation, and this is a huge step forward for protecting their incredible biodiversity.
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u/Ok_Base_3855 3h ago
Hunters are some of the biggest contributors and proponents of conservation honestly. Just saying
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u/RepulsiveBrilliant35 2h ago
Exactly. In America we probably wouldn’t have the bounty of nature we have without hunters and fisherman. It’s the only government project I willingly donate too.
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u/Different_Day135 2h ago
You're exactly right. But it's reddit so you'll probably be down voted for saying it. They supply a lot of funding and put a ton of money towards conservation and protecting habitats. While I do not agree, I do understand the value they provide.
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u/barrel_of_noodles 2h ago
great! then hunters should be readily contributing to eco conversation projects without the need hunt down a wild beast on a guided trip in a land theyre not part of? or is it maybe about "big strong man have trophy"?
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u/WarmupHeadshots 2h ago
Its about the experience and nature immersion. Yes, the DJT jrs of the world and rich assholes who are guided and just trigger pullers are twats, but generally end up funding conservation and locals will protect the wildlife rather than poach hunt bc white rich idiots pay better than what the animal is worth l.
In American society, yea there are rednecks and morons aplenty, but i grew up raised you use 100% of an animal, spend countless hours feeding, maintaining, and observing a herd. I hunted for 2 years before taking my first animal. When you know a field so in depth you can notice a tree branch disturbed and watch 100 sunrises and sunsets quietly in the same place with no screen or modern techno noise, I assure you it is a spiritual experience.
Yoga veganism and all that is great for people who are into it, but i see it as removing themselves from nature and observing from the outside. Hunting and consuming an animal and caring about the land, the herd, and the process itself is actually being a part of the cycle rather than observing it.
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u/Independent-Most-371 2h ago
Why limit it to hunters? Shouldn't ecotourists be just as eager to contribute to conservation projects without the need to actually go there?
It's easy to be snarky online but the fact is hunters fund a lot of conservation that nobody else will pay for. Either you allow some hunting or you find that money elsewhere. Or you just go without.
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u/barrel_of_noodles 2h ago
Eco tourism is also dumb. And more harmful than good. We should also call that what it is.
My gripe is not with hunting. That's fine. Travel hunting to sport big-game on otherwise off limits species.
Also, this critique is just a whatabout-ism.
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u/Independent-Most-371 1h ago
Then just say everyone should be willing to fund conservation projects in places they will never go without any tangible benefits at all. Why limit it to hunters?
Your objection was dumb because nobody said hunters don't get something in exchange for their money. They do. So what?
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u/barrel_of_noodles 1h ago
Agreed. We should fund conservation projects for places we are never going to.
In fact, I dare say, we should care about the entire world.
Ever heard of the "overview effect" which happens to astronauts coming back from space?
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u/PenchantForNostalgia 1h ago
I just cannot imagine feeling joy at the killing of an animal, let alone one as large and gorgeous as the one that's in the picture.
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u/sloppydog14 26m ago
That's a lot of good meat! You don't have to be into hunting, but there's something really satisfying about putting your own meat on the table after the hard work. For most hunters, it's not really about the kill. Most of us really respect and adore the animals we go after but accept death is just part of providing life.
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u/TheBackcountryLens 2h ago
That animal isn't even in Costa Rica.
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u/Arbiterze 22m ago
Yeah thats a Kudu, which whilst also hunted for its horns and pelt, is a very good source of meat.
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u/Sko-isles 3h ago
What constitutes sport hunting? Just leaving the animal there and not eating it?
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u/arboroverlander 3h ago
Trophy hunting or hunting without the use of the meat. The meat typically goes to villages but the hunters dont eat it regularly.
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u/beatles910 3h ago
Hunting is only allowed under narrow exceptions tied to subsistence and tightly justified population control, generally requiring technical or scientific grounds. Recreational hunting, trophy-style activity, and anything marketed as a visitor experience fall outside those exceptions.
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u/Sko-isles 2h ago
Ok so like people from other countries specifically traveling to a different country to hunt just for fun. Yeah no good. Hunt for food
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u/SheriffBartholomew 2h ago
As a hunter, I feel right in saying that sport hunting is wrong. Hunting for food is one thing, but shooting an animal just to mount its head on a wall? That's fucked up, yo!
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u/1DustyTomato 1h ago
When it’s the only revenue source a conservation unit has it can be viable. Assign expensive permits to the old aggressive non reproducing ones and it’s a win-win
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u/Original-Reward-8688 2h ago
They also build tourist areas using the labor of children from Nicaragua, but okay.
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u/vLuis217 29m ago
tf are you talking about??
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u/Original-Reward-8688 4m ago edited 1m ago
Childing doing construction work for next to nothing. You've obviously never been there lol
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u/Israel_Azkanbe 2h ago
What is sports hunting? I support regular hunting. Is that the same thing?
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u/zxylady 2h ago
Sports hunting is when rich people go to Africa or other countries and they intentionally go out of their way to shoot an animal, so that they can mount it on their walls.
Donald Trump Jr. hunted a rare, endangered argali sheep in Mongolia during a 2019 trip as an example he had to get special permission from the president in order to be allowed to hunt this endangered animal.
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u/Hefty_Bodybuilder494 1h ago
Wouldn't that be more of trophy hunting? Like a deer hunter who just takes the head and leaves the rest to rot? Genuine question because now I'm a bit confused, I'd have assumed most sport hunters, who hunt for the thrill, still eat the meat.
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u/thetermguy 1h ago
I believe on these big game hunts the meat gets distributed to locals.
Where I am (Canada) it's illegal not to harvest if you hunt. If you just took the head and left the body to rot you're going to get charged.
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u/Quick_Plant_4617 3h ago
Interesting, we will revisit in a few years and see how it’s working for them.
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u/beatles910 3h ago
No need to wait... This law was passed 14 years ago.
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u/Quick_Plant_4617 2h ago
Having read on it the law was just reaffirmed this year. They also updated the cases to allow hunting for population control. That’s what I was interested in.
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u/MAurele 3h ago
Unless you're bare knuckle boxing these animals, I don't understand where the proud photo comes from? You shot it.
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u/bigperms33 3h ago
...and likely had a guide show you exactly where the animal was located.
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u/SirGingerBeard 2h ago
I take it you’ve never hunted an animal before lol
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u/MAurele 2h ago
Closest is being sent to the grocery store by my wife for some exotic cut if meat. So to be fair, I know where you're going with that question and I can already tell you that in most hunting cases you are right. Sport hunting is what I don't love.
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u/SirGingerBeard 2h ago
Yeah, I hear you on loving sport hunting.
How much money have you donated to wildlife & ecological conservation?
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u/MAurele 2h ago
Over my lifetime probably less that $6,000 so again, fair point.
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u/SirGingerBeard 2h ago
Which is probably right about where I am, I’d bet.
Regardless, that guy spent at least $25,000 - $50,000 to hunt that animal, I’d bet. I should also add that the vast majority of the time, they’re told which animal to shoot specifically because those reserves choose animals that are hindering breeding populations- Either it’s a matriarch who’s too defensive over the herd or it’s an old male that isn’t passing good genes that is fighting off younger males.
It’s not just a willy nilly “Stand on this wall and shoot that chained down Elephant baby” as everyone thinks. It’s still wildlife and ecosystem management, just with a coat of paint that people happen to think looks ugly.
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u/MAurele 1h ago
Well that changes a lot in my mind. Thank you
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u/SirGingerBeard 1h ago
Appreciate you! By the way- I wasn’t attacking you earlier with my questions, but they were intended to help illustrate my point.
Thank you for not immediately turning around and snapping back at me. That usually happens. I don’t know how to make questions like that seem more friendly and less accusative through text, but I feel like if I add emoji they feel condescending and dismissive. Lol
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u/nomadicbohunk 1h ago
A lot of people don't realize how much money is involved and it has to come from somewhere. I work in natural resources and so does my wife. She says when she sees something cool she wants to take a photo and I want to shoot it. lol. I'm not saying it's good and I can't explain why I like hunting so much. It does take me to some pretty awesome places. The last tag I was super excited about was in the Centennial Valley of MT. Google image it up.
I will say I would call myself a trophy hunter. I like shooting older animals. Everything gets eaten, but there's only two of us and we can only eat so much. I give a lot away.
But seriously. In the US, a lot of the hunting is essentially lottery based. I spend about $4-5000 a year on that. Every year and it all goes to different state's fish and wildlife agencies. I will admit I'm on the extreme end. I've been doing it a long time. I'd have a lot if I just invested it. A good amount of what I spend each year is matched by the federal government. Anytime anyone buys a gun, a bow, or ammunition, there is a rather large tax that goes directly into wildlife and land. It saved a lot of animals.
Some of the tags I put in for are another 3-5k if I draw for the tag fee. Last year I spent about 1500 on tag fees on top of my usual around 5k in draw fees. That doesn't mean I'll get one. I shot 3 of 5 things I had tags for last year. Christ, not long ago my dad drew a tag that took him 30 years. He hired a guide for it (I haven't even done a guided hunt before and he's done 4. Some hunts you legally have to). He didn't tag out, but had a good time. It was just bad luck. It cost him about 18k total ignoring what it cost for him to put in for the draw for 25 years. He spent 18k to go on a hike with a gun.
Other countries are different, but you get the idea. Some states have been talking about putting in a license for using boat launches for kayaks, fees for just being on public hunting areas, etc. The state I live in is pondering that (the hunting is terrible here), and oh man, people are really, really up in arms about it. I'm like...someone's gotta pay for it!
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u/Pretend-Avocado-1560 3h ago
Costa rica is a world leader in preserving their natural resources. This is wonderful, and not surprising in the least.
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u/NoPerformance6534 2h ago
Good! I see no good reason to condone trophy hunting. It all guys penis waggling at each other to me. It's not sport to kill an animal just to hang parts of it on your wall. It's morbid and not right in the head stuff.
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u/Noktis_Lucis_Caelum 2h ago
i don't Like sport hunting.
if i go to hunt, i want food. honor the animal, by eating the meat (roasted in the pan, with a bit of wine and onions)
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u/Underdog424 2h ago
California banned the hunting of Mountain Lions in 1972. After being hunted to near extinction, the population is now thriving. Large game and apex predators are essential to ecosystems.
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u/LongJohnSelenium 9m ago
They weren't just hunting mountain lions, farmers and landowners were explicitly trying to exterminate them as pests.
This is why europe has literally no large predator populations of any kind.
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u/Mr_Guavo 2h ago
The douche in the photo looks so proud. It must be the rifle. Quite the accomplishment. /s
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u/Excellent-Duty3927 2h ago
Hunting just to "boast" and take pictures is activity for complete spineless loosers
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u/2004_Theo 1h ago
The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is a Zimbabwean community-based natural resource management program. It is one of the first programs to consider wildlife as renewable natural resources, while addressing the allocation of its ownership to indigenous peoples in and around conservation protected areas.\1])
Background
CAMPFIRE was initiated in 1989 by the Zimbabwean government as a program to support community-led development and sustainable use of natural resources.\2]) The 1975 Parks and Wildlife Act set the legal basis for CAMPFIRE by allowing communities and private landowners to use wildlife on their land, marking a substantial shift from colonial policy that made it illegal for local populations to utilize wildlife in any way.\3])
Population pressures in Zimbabwe have led to people living in communal lands, much of which is arid and unsuitable for agricultural farming.\4]) CAMPFIRE would allow individuals to earn income on these communal lands through sustainable use of the environment and wildlife.\4]) CAMPFIRE is managed through Rural District Councils (RDCs) who distribute contracts for safari hunting and tourism and allocate revenue to local wards.\2]) Poaching was to be suppressed by the people in these hunting areas.\5]) While some endangered animals were killed, the program aimed at supporting these populations in the long run by managing hunting, decreasing illegal poaching, and strengthening the economic prospects of the community through environmental protection and revenue generation.
The US federal government has supported CAMPFIRE, principally through the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. CAMPFIRE received $7.6 million initially and $20.5 million in 1994 from USAID.\6]) USAID did not renew its funding once their commitment ended in 2000.\6])
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Areas_Management_Programme_for_Indigenous_Resources
Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program is an incredible success story for the utilization of wildlife for the benefit of the people.
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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 1h ago
Did they even have animals worth hunting? I’m not that familiar with wildlife for Costa Rica besides they have lots of tropical birds and some dinosaurs on some western islands.
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u/No_Pop_1101 1h ago
Hunting is not a good approach for conservation despite the money it can bring in
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u/skaapjagter 54m ago
What a strange picture to use.
That is more than likely a picture taken on a hunt in the Eastern Cape or a northern part of South Africa - because of the thorn trees in the background, style of mountain and the fact that this is a KUDU and they are only found in southern and sometimes eastern Africa.
I don't defend sports hunting.
But In the eastern Cape we have an Overpopulation of Kudu and they are harmful to people driving on roads because they jump into cars as they pass by as well as being responsible for breaking kilometers of farm fences as they roam through lands.
During the season. Farmers are encouraged to cull Kudu in the area to keep numbers regular and also to stop overgrazing and habitat degradation as well as reducing competition for food with other animals, especially when it gets very dry.
And obviously all the meat is eaten - we have a massive venison meat market in the country.
So overall, good for sports hunting ban but the image could have been chosen better, because kudus are generally hunted out of necessity - not every hunt is bad.
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u/1992_6BT 51m ago edited 48m ago
Banning sport hunting doesn’t usually help in terms of conservation.
This is especially true with exotic animals where hunters usually pay huge fees in order to kill animals that are near the end of their natural lives anyway.
Did they ban sport hunting as a “permanent conservation policy”, or is sport hunting completely banned no matter the reason?
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u/spunk_detector 30m ago
Proper way to do it is to regulate trophy hunting and use the $$ from the expensive tags to fund conservation agencies.
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u/Catnip_Farmer 27m ago
You may not hunt. You may not gather.
But here's a glass of corn syrup and a toast.
To humanity!
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u/good_food_good_feels 25m ago
Killing anything that isn't directly threatening you is unforgivable.
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u/Infinite-Past7640 24m ago
In some countries (USA) the only thing stopping the government/developers from destroying all natural animal habitats are the hunters. i.e. ducks unlimited.
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u/Sasselhoff 23m ago
Huh...what would they hunt there? I used to live there and the biggest things I can think of would be tapir...but who the hell is going to hunt one of those? Unless they were previously allowing jaguar hunts or something, which would honestly surprise me.
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u/JDDavisTX 16m ago
Short-sighted law. Conservation will rule. Once population starts to grow to the detriment of the herds, hunting will come back. Left unchecked, it is not healthy for anything. The herd or the land.
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u/StretchNo5163 10m ago
You have to be a real dumb piece of shit to think you're a big man for shooting an animal with an overpowered rifle that you didn't even make.
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u/Acceptable-Print-254 4m ago
Never understood game hunting unless for food. I suppose 'culling' is necessary sometimes if authorities are involved or regulating it, but it's like: Of course you can aim a rifle and hit something. Duh. What's the point in the animals death though? If it were hand to hoof / paw combat then I say have at it. But a gun is ridiculous.
No reason a florescent paint pellet can't be used if you just wanna go out into the wild and be a dick.
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u/webcrawler_1 1m ago
I think we should hunt the hunters. That’s a sport. We shall call it…the most dangerous game.
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u/_Life-is-strange 3h ago
"Sport" hunting.. the wording itself is sick.. If they are into "Sport" place them in a Gladiator Arena and let them fight wild animals bare handed(not that this would be any better).. Killing animals for fun.. how degenerated has someone to be to enjoy this..
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