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by bell-cot 1743 days ago
"Traditional hunting" generally implies "competent", "sustainable", and "only enough for the community's own needs".

Its sounds like the supposedly trained-and-certified "traditional" hunters here fell far short of such ideals.

If one wanted to end this particular tradition, that seems like the best angle to attack it from.

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I don't know about the other 2, but I wouldn't say sustainable. Humans have been overhunting species for a long while now, from the Ice Age megafauna, to lions in Europe in Antiquity and the Dodo a few centuries ago, and plenty of species currently. If anything, sustainability is a pretty new concept.