Goodwill hunting questions
What is green hunting?
Green hunting is a tranquilized hunting with no real ammunition or guns but simply for sporting fun without the dead animal, it helps get data from the animals and get microchips into the animals such as rhinos or elephants to prevent further hunting.
Where and what is Kwande?
Kwande is a 20,000 hectare private game reserve in South Africa, which is a 1 hour flight away from Cape Town, South Africa’s capital city.
Why is a qualified vet employed?
A qualified vet is employed at all times to ensure the animal is safe at all times, e.g.) to make sure the correct amount of drugs are used to tranquilize the animal correctly and efficiently.
How much does a hunt cost?
A shooting hunt costs around $12,000 to $15,000 each time. It is very expensive as it the equipment is unique and expensive. They need the money to pay for the employees that make the hunt possible.
How long does it take for the drugs to work?
It takes 20 minutes for the drugs to start and to kick in to the animal’s body to fall unconscious. They must then continue to follow the animal at all times to ensure safety of the animal.
Why is the animal at risk each time it is darted?
The animals are at risk at all time because it constantly puts the animal into danger, if something is slightly wrong with the drugs they take, then the animal may die due to incorrect procedure. The liver of these animals continuingly get effected each time from taking the drugs often.
Why are microchips are inserted into the rhino horns?
The microchips are placed into the Rhino horns to discourage poachers from killing the Rhinos for their horns so that they can cut them off and sell them on the black market as they can be tracked, if they did get taken.
How much do horns sell for on the black market?
The horns such as Rhino or Elephant horns would sell on the black market for around $500,000 per kilogram. These horns are illegal to sell and very expensive to buy, because they are known to help diseases and other medical problems such as cancer.
How many animals get shot before green hunting started?
Before green hunting started in South Africa, over 200 animals were getting shot at each night in the game park as a sporting game/competition. They would shoot anything that they could and take photos as their trophies.
Why is green hunting so controversial?
Green hunting is so controversial because the hunters themselves are doing it for fun, they enjoy shooting and making the animals conscious. They see it as the best sport ever which is dangerous as these hunters see themselves as conservationists even though they are shooting and hurting these wild animals. They make these animals into a form of self-entertainment.
Do you think that Green Hunting is an effective conservation strategy? Why?
Green hunting is a great effective conservation strategy but also has its negative features. The idea of hunting but not killing is a great idea which helps reduce animal deaths and extinction, but the fact they do it because they love being able to make these animals unconscious and take their photos with their lifeless bodies is morbid. The animals deserve to live and not being constantly sedated and hunted by vicious creatures such as humans. The game parks make their money off these expensive shoot outs to pay for their staff to watch some of the species from being hunted for their bodily materials. But what’s the point in hiring staff to watch these creatures from being hunted when they are already are getting hunted just from their own back yard. It is effective for money but you have to always think of the animals needs first.
Green hunting is a tranquilized hunting with no real ammunition or guns but simply for sporting fun without the dead animal, it helps get data from the animals and get microchips into the animals such as rhinos or elephants to prevent further hunting.
Where and what is Kwande?
Kwande is a 20,000 hectare private game reserve in South Africa, which is a 1 hour flight away from Cape Town, South Africa’s capital city.
Why is a qualified vet employed?
A qualified vet is employed at all times to ensure the animal is safe at all times, e.g.) to make sure the correct amount of drugs are used to tranquilize the animal correctly and efficiently.
How much does a hunt cost?
A shooting hunt costs around $12,000 to $15,000 each time. It is very expensive as it the equipment is unique and expensive. They need the money to pay for the employees that make the hunt possible.
How long does it take for the drugs to work?
It takes 20 minutes for the drugs to start and to kick in to the animal’s body to fall unconscious. They must then continue to follow the animal at all times to ensure safety of the animal.
Why is the animal at risk each time it is darted?
The animals are at risk at all time because it constantly puts the animal into danger, if something is slightly wrong with the drugs they take, then the animal may die due to incorrect procedure. The liver of these animals continuingly get effected each time from taking the drugs often.
Why are microchips are inserted into the rhino horns?
The microchips are placed into the Rhino horns to discourage poachers from killing the Rhinos for their horns so that they can cut them off and sell them on the black market as they can be tracked, if they did get taken.
How much do horns sell for on the black market?
The horns such as Rhino or Elephant horns would sell on the black market for around $500,000 per kilogram. These horns are illegal to sell and very expensive to buy, because they are known to help diseases and other medical problems such as cancer.
How many animals get shot before green hunting started?
Before green hunting started in South Africa, over 200 animals were getting shot at each night in the game park as a sporting game/competition. They would shoot anything that they could and take photos as their trophies.
Why is green hunting so controversial?
Green hunting is so controversial because the hunters themselves are doing it for fun, they enjoy shooting and making the animals conscious. They see it as the best sport ever which is dangerous as these hunters see themselves as conservationists even though they are shooting and hurting these wild animals. They make these animals into a form of self-entertainment.
Do you think that Green Hunting is an effective conservation strategy? Why?
Green hunting is a great effective conservation strategy but also has its negative features. The idea of hunting but not killing is a great idea which helps reduce animal deaths and extinction, but the fact they do it because they love being able to make these animals unconscious and take their photos with their lifeless bodies is morbid. The animals deserve to live and not being constantly sedated and hunted by vicious creatures such as humans. The game parks make their money off these expensive shoot outs to pay for their staff to watch some of the species from being hunted for their bodily materials. But what’s the point in hiring staff to watch these creatures from being hunted when they are already are getting hunted just from their own back yard. It is effective for money but you have to always think of the animals needs first.