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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>A leading SADC Safari hunting company that has so far spent over US$3 million to support wildlife conservation and socio-economic development in Tanzania has appealed to the British Government to discontinue the trophy hunting imports ban bill because it will harm African people and wildlife.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes the UK Government really want to destroy those human lives, let alone the wildlife in these conservancies?\u201d asked Robin Hurt of Robin Hurt Safaris, in his appeal asking the British government to stop the wildlife-harming trophy hunting imports ban bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafari hunting is a legal and much-valued industry in African countries that allow it, including Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Africa and Mozambique. Namibia alone has over 80 community wildlife conservation projects, all managed by indigenous peoples; that depend 100% on safari hunting revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurt\u2019s appeal comes ahead of the 18 March 2022 British parliamentarians\u2019 vote on the animal rights groups fundraising industry-sponsored private members\u2019 bill to ban trophy hunting imports into the UK, including Africa\u2019s big five (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, and buffalo).<\/p>\n

Hurt has like other safari hunting companies operating in Africa, continued to use international hunting revenue to support wildlife and habitat conservation, including socio-economic development in hunting communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI chose to support wildlife and habitat conservation, anti-poaching as well as socio-economic development in Tanzania\u2019s hunting communities where we operate,\u201d he said \u201cSince 2006 we have built 37 schools, 75 teachers houses, 28 medical dispensaries, 34 village government offices, 19 wells and water pumps, nine water storage tanks and five water pipelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Britain, Hurt, who celebrates his 59th season as a full-time professional hunter this year and also his 77th birthday; has lived his whole life in Africa. Although he has British blood in his veins, he is \u201cAfrican at heart\u201d and considers himself African. Robin Hurt Safaris Tanzania is now being run and managed by his sons, Derek and Roger Hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sons are both professional hunters who continue enthusiastically with my conservation ideals,\u201d said Mr Hurt. The Robin Hurt Safaris supports key wildlife and habit conservation as well as community socio-economic projects that include anti-poaching activities such as the collection of steel snares, supporting community game guards, building classrooms, community health programmes, bee-keeping, village community banks and education improvement activities.<\/p>\n

Hurt said that one of the most important parts of \u201cour anti-poaching efforts are the removal and destruction\u201d of steel snare lines. \u201cThese snares are hugely destructive to wildlife numbers,\u201d he said. \u201cAlthough the snares are set to catch buffalo and antelope, numerous predators get killed as well. Additionally, elephants and rhinos occasionally get maimed by these snares. We estimate that each snare kills an average of five animals annually. Since 1986 we have destroyed approximately 60 000 snares. This has saved the lives of approximately 300 000 animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRobin Hurt, who in my long years in conservation, is probably the single most committed conservationist I know,\u201d said Wilfried Pabst a German who operates in Zimbabwe\u2019s Sango Conservancy and who has made an immense contribution to wildlife conservation that includes the translocation of 100 elephants using his finances.<\/p>\n

If implemented, the proposed British government trophy imports hunting ban Bill would destroy not only the wildlife and habitat conservation gains that Hurt has supported for the past 59 years as a professional hunter; but would also crush the socio-economic development hopes of African hunting communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ban is an excellent idea if destroying our wildlife is what the UK government has in mind\u201d, said Pabst who warns the British government that \u201cit is a form of neo-colonialism\u201d if it proceeds with the bill without conducting site visits to African hunting communities and also without consulting African politicians, chiefs, rural councils, and the local population.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, over 100 leading wildlife scientists and conservationists worldwide, this month wrote an open letter to the British government warning it against introducing the trophy imports ban Bill because it takes away both the revenue and incentives to conserve African wildlife.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough supporters of trophy hunting import bans claim such legislation will save African animals, these bans will ultimately achieve the exact opposite, resulting in unprecedented rates of habitat loss, with consequent wildlife depletion,\u201d said president of African Professional Hunters Association, Mike Angelides.<\/p>\n

CITES allows the hunting of all wildlife, including endangered wildlife, as long as it\u2019s not harmful to the hunted population, and acknowledges hunting as a necessary wildlife management tool. Hunting doesn\u2019t have a detrimental impact on wildlife, as only 0.5-3% of the population is hunted.<\/p>\n

Despite knowing that CITES allows the hunting of endangered species as a scientific method to successfully manage wildlife, a British newspaper based in London, The Times, this month, chose to demonise hunting and mislead the public in an article written by Judi Dench and Mr Peter Egan.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026British hunters are shooting endangered animals in growing numbers,\u201d they said in an attempt to mislead the ignorant world to think that international hunting of endangered species is illegal.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, observers say that it\u2019s hypocritical and dictatorial for the UK to allow hunting domestically while seeking to prohibit hunting trophy imports. The Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa said in a recent statement that such double standards undermine the human rights of millions of its members, threaten their livelihoods and disrespect the SADC region\u2019s unparalleled conservation success.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it seems, unfortunately, that Africa is facing a new kind of racism – one where one life is worth much more than another,\u201d said CEO of the Operators and Professional Hunting Association of Africa, Danene van der Westhuyzen.<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019 Dame Judi Dench and Egan\u2019s demonisation of international hunting have been questioned. They said without quoting a single villager from African countries where hunting takes place, \u201cSome of their operations are multi-million-pound businesses, yet villagers say they receive no benefits from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is The Times set on demonising the legal safari hunting industry?\u201d asks Hurt. \u201cIt [legal hunting] is a means of funding the expensive stewardship of wilderness and wildlife outside of protected areas – and importantly funds local communities that co-exist with wild animals and justly have the right to earn revenue for setting aside lands for wildlife habitation. Furthermore, it funds anti-poaching programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurt said that contrary to The Times\u2019 misrepresentation of international hunting benefits, there is enough evidence on the ground in African hunting communities to illustrate the benefits of hunting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wildlife hunting revenue-built Masoka Secondary School in Zimbabwe, has so far produced two medical doctors and more doctors and professionals will be produced in the future,\u201d said a Masoka wildlife hunting community representative, Ishmael Chaukura. \u201cThe school also produced accountants, teachers, nurses, technicians and engineers, etc. Wildlife revenue enables children born into poverty to escape from it; through education. These hunting benefits make us appreciate the need to conserve wildlife and its habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n

International hunting benefits have impressively made Namibia\u2019s Anabeb Conservancy residents switch from the tradition of using their land for cattle production to safari hunting. Their attitude to wildlife has changed positively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember poaching a big kudu for meat,\u201d said chairman of Namibia\u2019s Anabeb Conservancy, Ovehi Kasaona. \u201cMy friends were also poachers for meat, including my father and grandfather. My uncle even poached for rhino horn sale. In the past when we saw wildlife, we saw meat for the pot. Now we are associating wildlife with tourism businesses such as lodges that we have built, using money from wildlife hunting. This has created employment for people who work at the lodges and those involved with game drives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Africans are known not to ever conserve wildlife as long as they don\u2019t benefit from it \u2013 they would rather poach it. Therefore, it remains to be seen whether or not the British government will go ahead with a bill that takes away these never-seen-before international hunting benefits and in the process add to the list of the British\u2019s bad legacy of colonialism in Africa \u2013 the needless destruction of Africa\u2019s wildlife and its habitat.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat Britain has a dark past of colonisation, exploitation, slavery and the cause of a litany of sadness across our continent (Africa),\u201d said Paul Stones who runs Paul Stones Safaris and hunts in Mozambique and South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica is tired of being treated like the mongrels [dogs of no definable type or breed] of the world, by what is regarded as \u2018first world\u2019 countries. The Covid-19 pandemic was proof enough of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

*Emmanuel Koro is a Johannesburg-based international award-winning independent environmental journalist who writes extensively on environment and development issues in Africa.<\/p>\n

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