Indians For Guns

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WWF trophy hunting policy

WWF is committed to protecting the world’s threatened and endangered wildlife and does not condone any activity that would threaten the long term survival of any species.

For endangered species, trophy hunting should only be considered when all other options have been explored. We don’t support trophy hunting in countries where it is culturally or religiously inappropriate.

However, WWF as a global organization, recognizes the diversity of cultural attitudes and opinions towards trophy hunting. Trophy hunting occurs—and ultimately, it is up to local communities and their local and national governments to determine how they use their natural resources.

With that in mind, WWF acknowledges that trophy hunting, where it is scientifically based and properly managed, has proven to be an effective conservation and management method in some countries and for certain species.

This is particularly the case in areas where alternative sources of income or land use practices are unlikely to bring in much needed funds for people or wildlife, or create sufficient incentives for conservation. There is also evidence that in specific areas where trophy hunting is practised that poaching of hunted and other, often endangered species has gone down.

However, when improperly managed, trophy hunting can of course have serious detrimental impacts on wildlife. In these circumstances, WWF has been asked in some instances to provide scientific and technical advice to improve the management of those programmes. WWF vigorously opposes any project involving threatened or endangered species that is detrimental to the species.

Trophy hunting must always benefit the conservation of the species or its habitat and provide benefits for local communities. A significant proportion of revenue generated should be reinvested into conservation programmes.

It is important to point out that WWF does not run or derive revenue from any "trophy hunting" Projects.

-Inder

Thanks for posting that, Inder.

Is Prince Phillip still the top dog at WWF?

Mack The Knife

With that in mind, WWF acknowledges that trophy hunting, where it is scientifically based and properly managed, has proven to be an effective conservation and management method in some countries and for certain species.

WWF might get its stats and facts ok, but our mutts will only use what suits their 'flavour-of -the-month' mentality...

Asif,

Our neighbours in Pakistan have recently begun to allow the private farming of partridges for hunting in a strictly controlled business and have taken the help of British businesses to develop this. And, under the WWF, Pakistan's sheep hunting project has been a monumental success with ungulate populations rising visibly over the past decade.

Nick's friend Mamunur Rehman in Canada has acquired a huge river island in Bangladesh for setting up a hunting preserve and there are most probably going to be similar efforts in Bhutan with Nepal already on the sheep hunting map with WWF support.

While I do agree with you on the mental makeup of our neta-babu class (mutts is a bad term for them - I brought my little mutt with me to the US when I moved here and he certainly has a higher IQ than most of our leaders ) I hope we could hit the morons with this at every possible opportunity to show them how badly our desperately poor country could earn a huge amount of money by implementing something like this. This could also help in reforestation in the long term as tribal communities are given an economic incentive to preserve forests instead of destroying them due to a lack of knowledge as well as of an opportunity to gain anything concrete from them. AFter all, anything that does not have economic value is certain to be lost forever.