@rugby_ap Without harsh punishment the species could go extinct. The impoverished can poach meat but choose to go for rhino for big money knowing the risks. But they also know army vets / hired guns can’t track or hide in the bush as well as they do
@Mackeymac123 You’d rather want millions of hectares of pristine African bush to be turned into crop farms? You’d rather want government to be the sole custodian of African wildlife? You’d rather want people to only eat mass produced hormone fed meat?
@KP24@zimspurs@BeefGolf But privately owned land safeguards the majority of African wildlife in SA. So without the hunting industry, the government would have the sole responsibility of protecting SA wildlife, and they can’t be trusted to do this
In 1997, they declared war.
And it'd take a team of elite snipers, ruthless aerial assaults, and multi-million-dollar tracking technology in order to find and kill the enemy.
But who was the enemy, you ask?
Goats.
200,000 of them.
A thread on the "Goat War" of the Galápagos: