Can hunting endangered animals save the species?

Some exotic animal species that are endangered in Africa are thriving on ranches in Texas, where a limited number are hunted for a high price. Ranchers say they need the income to care for the rest of the herd. Animal rights activists want the hunting to end.

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• hunting
• game
• nature
• texas
• antelope
• exotic
• wildlife
• association
• oryx
• senegal
• populate
• cbs
• 60 minutes

[Daniel44125]

Private property rights. A wonderful thing. The best incentive for conservation is ownership. The idiot women winning her retarded crusade is arguing an emotional irrational position that will destroy the wildlife ultimately.

[Resoses]

" isn't there a greater chance for survival the more of them there are"

"in their native lands"

LOOOOOLLL you mean the native lands where they almost went extinct??

Stupid bitch

[NobleJamsRock]

Hundreds of these animals have been VERY recently taken at a steeply discounted rate. I have personal access to these animals on a huge game ranch in South Texas and I tell you that these animals thrive under the millions of dollars of private money put into quality fencing, food and grasslands. These animals would have continued to provide genetic diversity to populations around the world. The outcome of these regulations will be massive animal loss in a very short period of time. BACKFIRE!!

[TheJonmcgill]

I'm a lifelong TX resident, educated in ranch mgmt, very familiar w/ this subject...check out oryx hunts on Dallas/Austin/Houston/San Antonio (and basically every other city in TX)Craigslists. As the clip said, last year these hunts cost $4-$5K per animal, now are $500-$1000 and getting cheaper every week! RANCHERS ARE LIQUIDATING THEIR HERDS!!... As they must, If herds can't be selectively culled these animals will overpopulate and starve but only after causing massive damage to the ranch!!!

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@magicblanket So long as you kill these animals your number won't grow much, maybe 0.1% every ten years. As for goverment money, you get a president that is pro equality, pro life, pro liberty then all is possible.......so long as you reduce your warfare just a little.

[magicblanket]

@TheIcelandicPatriot Again, you're implying that an agency with guaranteed tax appropriations is just as efficient as an earnings dependent business. It's not. And while there's a limit to how much money a gov. is willing to spend on conservation, there's nothing to keep this ranch from expanding its herd endlessly as long as its raking in business. It may even sell a few mating couples off to newer ranches and the cycle beings again in even more locations.

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@magicblanket Im not saying this does not work no. Im saying how can you as a human being be so cruel. So far as i know the U.S goverment is doing very little for these animals but just like how we build roads we can safe these animals without a single death.

If we save them like this we safe maybe few 100's but if we use taxes all the once great heards of Africa might be restored to it's former glory.

[magicblanket]

@TheIcelandicPatriot

IcelandicPatriot....if government run reserves are so great, how come there aren't any that can claim this ranch's success rate? A government agency gets tax money regardless of how well its doing its job. If antelope numbers dropped, they'd probably get MORE money in fact to try to imrpove the situation. The moment the antelopes decrease here, there are less to hunt and the ranch loses money. When people's asses are on the line, you get better quality work

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

@fordoz1999 Saving a rare animal is a noble thing but to save them just so you can kill them later is moronic.

Call be a fool if you like but an allmost extinct animal to me is worth far more then countless human lives and why? Because we are more in numbers and we take more then we need.

[fordoz1999]

"First i would like to say that killing rare animals is nothing less then barbarity and to anyone who does it i would gladly kill for free."

Is this meant to be ironic, or is it just moronic?

I'm not following the logic of some of these posts... The animals are being saved! Just to let you know they will be hunted in Africa too. If not by hunters then by their natural predators. Are you going to tell me it's better to be mauled by a lion then shot by a hunter?

[Mauivavi]

yeah waiting in a bush to kill a animal 150feets away, I am great in life,looool..

[Mauivavi]

hunting for fun or show off, is weakminded and for losers in life..