https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-06-09-trophy-hunting-is-an-essential-brick-in-the-wall-of-sound-african-conservation-practice/

There is huge pressure from lobby groups in developed nations to ban trophy hunting in Africa. Would the outcry be the same if farmers in the UK had to deal with man-eating crocodiles in their rivers, marauding lions around their cattle farms, and elephants killing people and destroying their crops?

Unless you have been to Africa and ventured beyond the well-travelled roads and comfortable accommodations found in many of the continent’s great national parks, you will never understand the real reason why Africa’s precious wildlife is in such peril.

You will never see first-hand what poor rural Africans must deal with just to survive on a day-to-day basis, often in direct conflict and competition with wildlife.

You will never understand the persecution that African wildlife is facing at the hands of illegal poachers.

But above all, you will never see how much habitat is being destroyed every day to…