Americans’ interest in hunting is on the decline, cutting into funding for conservation, which stems largely from hunting licenses, permits and taxes on firearms, bows and other equipment.
LINK (via: The Washington Post)
Americans’ interest in hunting is on the decline, cutting into funding for conservation, which stems largely from hunting licenses, permits and taxes on firearms, bows and other equipment.
LINK (via: The Washington Post)
I saw today, here in Britain, that a certain someone is trying to stop the US Hunting Rot.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/04/donald-trump-jr-trophy-hunting-auction-nevada-aoe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/04/donald-trump-jr-trophy-hunting-auction-nevada-aoe#img-2
Here in Britain, kids and young people moved on from doing / wanting to do such stuff (did I hear an old, Cordelia, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel fame, “E-e-u-u-u-w!” ?) a long long time ago.
As they have and are now far less-fatal fishing.
Some big rethinking about Sport, Wildlife and Conservation needs to be done now, fellas – something that I very gently suggested to a number of British Angling and Rural “luminaries” I knew as friends beginning a couple of decades back. My body is still carrying quantities of their Purdey and Holland & Holland shot and Steyr Mannlicher Pro and Merkel stalking rifle lead….
Ducks then runs…..
Our public land resources (hunting fishing birding paddling and so on): use ’em or lose’em
That being said hunting is in dire need of a branding makeover, there’s got to be more to it than aisle after aisle of camo’d Under Armour merch.