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What is the connection between the African #WildlifeEconomy, legal #hunting & trophy trade, and #rhino #conservation? Here are some insights from my work as detailed in recent articles for @ConLetters @Society4ConBio @TC_Africa @africa_resource @OppGenRC & @WildlifeEconomy
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First, consider the context: African conservation’s colonial legacy, a fast-growing human population, growing economic pressure to exploit wildlands, and the recent loss of critical revenue flows to wildlife custodians caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. See
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One source of these revenue flows is legal wildlife hunting tourism. Hunting wildlife for meat is common, but international tourists pay the most to hunt large charismatic species (e.g., the ‘Big 5’) and usually (but not always) like to take mounted specimens home as trophies.
