Continuing their pattern of doing every awful thing imaginable, the Trump administration/wrecking crew has reversed a rule banning big-game hunters from importing African elephant parts for display as "trophies." Can't you hear Beavis & Butthead (Don Jr. & Eric)? -- "Oh, Daddy, please! We just gotta have more elephant tails! Please, Daddy, please!"African elephants are an endangered species.
The rationale for this fish-in-a-bowl "sport hunting" is that it creates necessary revenue for animal conservation efforts. Wealthy trophy hunters pay very large fees for the privilege of killing these magnificent creatures, and all that money helps protect and preserve the animals and their habitat. The hunters have convinced themselves they're actually saving animals by killing them and mounting their heads on a wall.
I call big BULLSHIT! I will readily grant that African animal conservation takes a bunch of money. But if the primary concern of these high-minded hunters is really the preservation of elephants, lions, leopards, etc., they should just donate the fee or an even larger amount, and skip the killing part. That would literally save an animal and help the cause.
And I can hear their reply: "Hell no, you pantywaist lib-tard! If I'm coughing up $50 large, I'm friggin' shootin' something! Yee-ha!"
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| A whole lot of "conservation" going on here. |
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