Reply To: The consequences of NOT killing lions

[Matt]

I don’t know enough about lions to endorse or condone the hunting permit scheme.

I do know that in the US, a big part of allowing the hunting of deer is to cull their numbers so that they don’t over consume their environment. Likewise here in Australia, we had a massive kangaroo cull because their numbers were spiralling out of control. Even today, camels are fair game… I’ve heard we even export camels to the middle east.

But I digress. Here’s the real point: the lions in question belong, as much as any animal can, to the country in which they reside. Is it really our place to tell that country what they can and can’t do with their own natural resources?