我们也得听一听 都有哪些 反对的观点

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我们也得听一听 都有哪些 反对的观点

The Grizzly Facts
http://stopthegrizzlyhunt.org/thescience.aspx

global tv grizzly hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSb913YE1zI

Anti Trophy Hunting
http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/02%20anti-trophy-hunting.htm

Stop Trophy Hunting BC Bears
http://www.greenmuze.com/animals ... ting-bc-bears-.html

Conservation groups say eBay should ban trophy hunt sales
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10232181-93.html

B.C. coalition seeks ban on trophy hunting of bears
Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british ... .html#ixzz0gXEQqFFT

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british ... p-bear-hunting.html

Will Canada ban polar bear trophy hunting?
http://www.democraticunderground ... address=389x5491284


Global TV run a segment on their prime evening news programme wondering why the hunt is still allowed.

Charlie Russell, the veteran grizzly bear expert who has worked with bears, around the world, co-founds www.stopthegrizzlyhunt.org.  8/10/2009.

Games will be used to spotlight 300 dead bears, by Ethan Baron, The Province.  Ethan voices fears that BC's upcoming Olympic games may come to be associated with the continued hunting of grizzly bears in the province. 17/06/2009.

Why are we still killing for sport? by D. Simon Jackson, Special to the CBC, wondering why the BC grizzly hunt is still legal. 15/06/2009.

Trophy Hunters in the line of fire, by Larry Pynn, The Vancouver Sun. Larry writes a long story taking in all points of view and examining the current state of the grizzly hunt in BC. 14/06/2009.


Ban the Trophy Hunt
http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/camp ... gold-for-this-sport


Trophy hunting in Africa: 'Hunt operators are conservationists first, and hunters second'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro ... ophy-hunting-africa


还是让我们  来看《非洲环保基金会ACF》的’说法“ 吧:  希望能够有高手， 将其翻译出来。 老上我 这里先叩谢再三了！
http://www.africanconservation.org/dcforum/DCForumID21/291.html

"Ban on hunting is misguided"

          WHILE Kenya misses out on the huge worldwide outdoor sports industry, that includes sport hunting, bird shooting and game fishing, the debate on whether or not to legalise sport hunting has become stale, unimaginative, illogical and repetitive.

Strangely enough, Kenya allows game fishing and bird shooting, but not sport hunting which is the biggest money earner and conservation tool of all. Meanwhile Botswana, Nambia, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa rake in billions of shillings annually in hunting and conservation revenue.

Lost in this impenetrable debate (“Scramble for Africa’s wild life,” The EastAfrican March 5-12) is the need to bring Kenya’s wildlife policy up to date with the rest of Africa and international norms and away from the colonial rules where the government decided issues such as hunting for the entire country, by decree of remote authorities.

That is what radical conservationists like International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and others want to retain, so that they can command all Kenya’s complex web of wildlife users (from landowners to tourist lodges) to adopt a single, rigid wildlife policy. This is bad conservation at its worst. And it has failed.

KWS should implement a number of pilot hunting schemes with selected landowners and communities. Opponents like IFAW and wildlife experts such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other UN affiliates can be invited to monitor these schemes.

Kenya has lost 70 per cent of its wild animals outside parks since the ban on hunting in 1976. Hunting therefore cannot be blamed per se.

There should be no countrywide lifting of the hunting ban, nor any total imposition, but selected projects to be assessed.

This will help landowners and communities choose the wildlife policy that suits their needs.

That is smart conservation and Kenya’s way forward.

Despite regulated hunting being a legal and valuable conservation tool that is used by most countries worldwide and endorsed by the most respected and senior wildlife bodies such as the WWF and World Conservation Union/IUCN, the matter in Kenya is wholly dominated by extremist conservationists.

They are spending millions of shillings opposing hunting in Kenya by every means.

Thus Kenyans have a weird impression that the only choices are a complete hunting ban, or else hundreds of foreigners will descend on the country and invade national parks, guns blazing away at all sorts of animals, endangered or not.

But the truth is that nobody has ever proposed the latter, not even hunters.

John M’jongola,
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"Sport Hunting Has Its Gains, Too"
Kenyans are debating whether the Government should lift its 30-year ban on trophy hunting. While the talk continues, the elephant population in Kenya continues to drop.

Meanwhile, elephant populations in countries such as Namibia and South Africa are increasing, a resurgence that is due surprisingly, in part, to trophy hunting. More importantly, our research in Namibia has found that as elephant populations rebound, so do the fortunes of the people.

What can Kenya learn from Namibia?

In the early 1990's, the Namibian government instituted a policy known as Community -Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). CBNRM gives people who live on communal land the rights to manage wildlife and to build businesses based on ecotourism and similar activities.

WHILE TROPHY HUNTING IS A major source of cash income for conservancies, other forms of direct wildlife utilisation provide important cash and noncash benefits for conservancy members.

In 2005, there were 12 trophy hunting concessions across 16 Namibian conservancies, providing approximately US$495,000 in income to conservancies, making trophy hunting the second highest source of income for conservancies.

In Namibia's programme, the ministry of Environment and Tourism sets quotas to hunt threatened or problem animals. Conservancies that have these quotas can then contract with professional hunters, who bring paying hunters to the area to track and shoot the animals. In the contracts, conservancies can specify what benefits trophy hunting will give the conservancy and its members beyond just income.

The Namibia Association of Community Based Natural Resource Management Support Organisation (NACSO) reports that by providing some jobs, income, and meat to conservancy members, trophy hunting can "strengthen local support for wildlife and conservancies because people see the link between wildlife and conservation in the form of a tangible, immediate benefit." Strengthening these links is vital for countries seeking to protect endangered species.

The ministry also requires conservancies to develop plans to distribute benefits. Conservancies may pay out cash benefits after they have paid out conservancy operating costs, which may include vehicle maintenance, salaries, and other expenses, such as relocating wildlife or maintaining water holes. Some conservancies have distributed cash to households.

As valuable as trophy hunting is to the conservancies, it is not only activity that conservancies undertake. In fact, as the Namibian conservancies work to diversify their sources of income, trophy hunting is playing a smaller, though still important, role in conservancies' management strategies.

Even though trophy hunting can provide important economic and social benefits, the practice also creates tension and conflict if there isn't a transparent process for using the income or distributing the meat. In addition, because hunters often place a premium on hunting potentially destructive animals, such as elephants, local people may experience human/wildlife conflict from having animals that outsiders desire in their conservancies.

THE KEY TO NAMIBIA'S SUCCESS in managing the tension over trophy hunting lies in the fact that the local people of an area decide whether to permit trophy hunting. With CBNRM the Namibian government has recognised that those most affected should have the right to decide their fates, a right currently denied to the people of Kenya.

While lifting the trophy hunting ban in Kenya could be a vital step in increasing the fortunes of both the elephants and the people, it is just a step. With greater legal empowerment and a devolution of rights to manage wildlife, Kenyans too would experience what the people of Torra Conservancy, Namibia, are now experiencing: an improving environment and economic development.


The Nation (Nairobi)
Karol Boudreaux
Nairobi

Karol Boudreaux is lead researcher for Enterprise Africa, a joint project of the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University, Virginia, US.