International Union for Conservation of Nature Report: Trophy Hunting Preserves Wildlife

By Robert Farago

According to their website, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is “the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisation, with almost 1,300 government and NGO Members and more than 15,000 volunteer experts in 185 countries. Our work is supported by almost 1,000 staff in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world.” [Click here for an intro video.] You may – or may not – be surprised to learn that the IUCN’s international eco-warriors support trophy hunting. In fact . . .

An IUCN briefing published this month discusses in great detail how legal, well-regulated trophy hunting can and does generate critically needed incentives and revenue in order for government, private and community landowners to maintain and restore wildlife as a land use and to carry out conservation actions, including much-needed anti-poaching interventions.

That’s the Dallas Safari Club’s take [via ammoland.com] on the IUCN’s briefing paper Informing decisions on trophy hunting. It was prepared in the wake of the “Cecil the lion” debacle and subsequent calls for the European Union to ban the importation of hunting trophies. The IUCN acknowledges problems …Read the Rest

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