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The ethics of hunting: What???s in a trophy?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (548+ words) Trophy has become a dirty word. Wall-mounted antlers are seen as vulgar and disrespectful, despite a seared free-range backstrap being regarded as nourishing, sustainable and natural. The idea of hunting a large trophy has been separated from the rest of…...
Hunting quotas: The quiet rewriting of our biodiversity compact
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (1217+ words) Dr Bool Smuts is the founder and general manager of the Landmark Foundation, a conservation NGO specialising in human-wildlife coexistence and conflict, and focused on leopard conservation. He is a leopard researcher and is a research affiliate at the University…...
The Origins Foundation Urges France to Reconsider Hunting Trophy Import Ban
1+ week, 3+ day ago (281+ words) Support The Origins Foundation The Origins Foundation Why Foundation warns proposed restrictions could harm conservation funding, rural economies and communities that depend on wildlife The Origins Foundation has formally appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu…...
How the Canton of Bern governs around freedom of conscience when it comes to hunting
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1690+ words) Anyone who rejects the killing of animals on principle must nevertheless tolerate hobby hunting on their own land. A ruling from Bern shows how Switzerland is falling behind several European states that have long given legal weight to the ethical…...
The most expensive illusion of hobby hunting: when killing makes the problem bigger
1+ week, 6+ day ago (568+ words) A new study in «Biological Conservation» calculates what the killing of 1.7 million foxes, mustelids and corvids per year in France actually achieves: no demonstrable benefit, but costs of up to 123 million euros annually Since mid-August, several associations in France have…...
The ecological impacts of game shooting – Professor Dave Goulson
3+ week, 5+ day ago (173+ words) Professor Dave Goulson is a leading UK conservationist, known especially for his work on bee behaviour, ecology and conservation, but also a lot more. He’s also a celebrated author, and his most recent book, Eat the Planet Well, (Penguin Books,…...
Tolstoy against hobby hunting: From hunter to critic
4+ week, 1+ day ago (253+ words) The author of “War and Peace” was himself a passionate hobby hunter for decades before he exposed the killing of non-human animals as a moral regression. Hardly any writer lived through hobby hunting as ambivalently as Leo Tolstoy. The lynx…...