[vash]

elephant hunting. i wont do it. EVER.

but that is the craziness of it all. i think elephant hunting is protecting the elephants. we can all agree that poachers run around without rules. they indiscriminately shoot elephants for ivory and other body bits. sure it is greed. but now that elephants are LEGALLY hunted..they hold a real value for the villages. they become a commodity. i dont know what the going rate for a rich hunter to go out on safari with a professional hunter..but i do know it isnt cheap. the money and meat goes to the people.

now that elephants have become a real value, the government has anti-poaching teams protecting them. i've read that most "Trophy" elephant hunts are some rogue animal tommenting a village. it needs to go. so they just find some rich schmoe that is willing to pay the money to shoot it. win/win.

just my take and lame opinion. i also think elephants are cool.