The paradox of the hunting ban

Saturday, March 01, 2014

One professional hunter asks: “Everyday millions of chickens are slaughtered, around 28,675,000 broilers in 2005 alone. Have you ever heard of chickens being listed as vulnerable or endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?”

Hunting is such a strange issue that it can turn even the most logical people into purveyors of irrationality and make the most liberal intolerant.

A study titled ‘An Interdisciplinary Approach to Inform Conservation Strategies for Threatened Species in the Australian Western Desert’ by scientists Rebecca and Doug Bird offers insights into maintaining animal communities through ecosystem engineering and co-evolution of animals and humans.

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