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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6221816" data-attributes="member: 6750039">First of all, I hope this isn't out of bounds for this board - if it is, please accept my apology and lock.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/melissa-bachman-big-game-protest-161458798.html" target="_blank">Linky-dinky</a>.So this gal goes on a legal safari in South Africa - spending many thousands of dollars that will go toward conservation practices and actually protecting the animals she was hunting - and now the South African people are petitioning for her to be banned from ever entering the country again.I'm gonna step outside of my standard 'don't say a lot so as to not lead the discussion' philosophy for a moment to say this: These people have no idea what it is they're talking about.  Money from hunting goes toward conservation efforts - including anti poaching initiatives.  The meat is donated to locals and eaten.  In poor areas people poach because the demand for parts of these animals is high and they can then make money to pay for food for their families.  What hunting here does is give those same locals with wilderness expertise paying jobs as trackers, cooks, whatever - well paying and well tipped jobs.  This money means they don't need to illegally kill animals or illegally kill endangered animals.  In short, this woman they're decrying has likely done far more for the animals they profess to love than any of them have.  They're just too ignorant and stoopid to understand it.Hunters spend money and that money is used to protect the environment and the animals in it.  Most people who whine about the practice have donated exactly $0 to do the same.  You tell me who's more concerned about animal welfare.</blockquote>

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