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by pixelbill 3462 days ago
Sure.

http://www.africanwildlifeconservationfund.org/wp-content/up...

Trophy hunting alone brings in over $200 million USD a year to Africa's economy.

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So what's your takeaway form the paper?

$200M isn't much on a continental scale. Also where exactly is this money going?

"New legislation is also required to tackle some problems associated with trophy hunting. For example, ownership of wildlife should be devolved to communities to permit direct receipt of benefits from hunting and thus create clear incentives for sustainable wildlife management"

Yeah, that will be easy to pull off, I'm certain of that.

The GDP of the entire content of Africa is $2.39 trillion, just the USA alone has a GDP 7x their entire content. It would be roughly equivalent to bringing in $1.4 billion into the US economy.

Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument? Or just more ignorant sarcasm?

And this guy thinks every buck goes directly into tribes and such. Reality check: that's not how the world works. They probably get peanuts -if they get anything at all-. Please stop being delusional and justifying non-sense with more non-sense.
> Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument?

No, just like you don't. The paper you posted doesn't cut it because it only discusses how much money was made, not the wellbeing of the fauna.

> $1.4 billion into the US economy.

So that's relatively nothing.