Some good news!

[plainolamerican]

AI Overview

Hunting can help elephant populations by providing revenue for conservation, including anti-poaching and habitat protection, and by managing human-elephant conflict

. The practice is controversial, but proponents claim that by targeting older bulls, it can improve the genetic health of the population and provide an incentive for local communities to protect elephants from poaching. 

Potential benefits of regulated hunting

• Revenue for conservation: Hunting generates significant funds through licenses and fees that can be reinvested into conservation efforts like anti-poaching patrols and wildlife management programs.
• Incentive for local communities: When local communities see economic benefits from hunting, they are more likely to support wildlife and take action against illegal poaching.
• Population and genetic management: Hunting quotas are often set at very low levels, and hunting can be restricted to older bulls that have passed on their genes. This can help improve the genetic health of the population by removing older, monopolizing males and allowing younger bulls to reproduce.
• Human-wildlife conflict mitigation: In areas with large elephant populations, hunting can help control numbers and reduce conflicts like crop damage and danger to human life, which can lead to retaliatory killing of elephants. 

Concerns and counterarguments

• Ethical concerns: Many people find the practice of killing elephants for sport morally repugnant.
• Potential for mismanagement: If quotas are set too high or if females are hunted, it can have a negative impact on the population.
• Ineffective revenue distribution: Critics argue that the profits from trophy hunting may not always reach the local communities or be used for conservation, sometimes benefiting a few wealthy landowners or officials instead. 

Conclusion

Whether hunting benefits elephant populations is a complex and controversial issue with arguments on both sides. The effectiveness of hunting as a conservation tool depends heavily on it being well-managed, with strict quotas, accountability, and a clear flow of revenue to local communities. 

[Lobo]

<<Incentive for local communities: When local communities see economic benefits from hunting, they are more likely to support wildlife and take action against illegal poaching.>>

Just as they are when villagers are made responsible for and given the revenue from non-lethal tourist "safaris".

All three still-existing species of elephants are Endangered. The very last thing they need is to be deliberately killed.

<<Population and genetic management: Hunting quotas are often set at very low levels, and hunting can be restricted to older bulls that have passed on their genes. This can help improve the genetic health of the population by removing older, monopolizing males and allowing younger bulls to reproduce.>>

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That's not how it works. Those older bulls are the very ones that have proven their ability to survive, and thus have the best genes to pass on.

BTW: It's always a good idea to check a little further into the source of memes, when you can.

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[Lobo]

[BEZARK]

Perhaps a decent plan for  Bison on restored tall-grass prairie above depleted aquifers that now preclude intensive agriculture.

[BEZARK]

Years ago one  African nation had army snipers hunting poachers!

I’ll bet some rich men would pay big to do that.

[Irie]

The meme was 100 % true.  The "AI Overview" was so.ething totally separate from it.

Yes, the claim is true, but the event is not recent. Amboseli National Park in Kenya recorded a record-breaking 140 elephant births in a single year, which was reported in August and September of 2020. 

This "baby boom" was attributed to a combination of factors at the time:

Abundant rainfall in the years prior provided lush vegetation, ensuring the mothers and calves had enough nourishment to thrive.

Reduced poaching due to the Kenyan government's increased anti-poaching efforts and stricter penalties for offenders.

Fewer tourist interruptions due to travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic also contributed to the favorable conditions. 

[Lobo]

True. But though any good news is welcome, however fleeting, the group that published the meme is of the sort that proves very unhelpful when someone points out that they also believe chemtrails are an ET-alien conspiracy. (Not that Plainol was likely to know that.)

Even worse are lobbying groups with deceptively environment-friendly sounding names that are actually anti-environment corporate "stealth"-groups, funded by those who want to profit from removing all restrictions on driving other species to extinction, using up scarce non-renewable resources, corporate polluting, and heating up the planet ASAP.

("For what shall it profit a man to gain all the money in existence, but lose the whole world?", as Jesus might have pit it a couple of millennia later...)

Groups like the "Land Conservation Coalition" -- a DC corporate lobbying group that, far from trying to "conserve" public lands, pushes cattle grazing and minerals-extractions from them (with a little destructive off-roading on the side).

Or the Koch Bros-funded "Global Climate Coalition", which has done more than any other since the 1990s to halt the UN’s IPCC process and spread rumors and false doubts about climate science. It was they who were chiefly responsible FOX "News" so-called "ClimateGate" faux-"scandal", which has eventually resulted in Donald Trump declaring in-our-faces global warming a "Hoax", and halting or actually dismantling all national efforts to switch over to clean, cheaper, sustainable sources of energy, while adversaries like China leap over us economically and technologically.

[plainolamerican]

https://wwf.panda.org/es/?75340/A-numbers-game-Managing-elephants-in-southern-Africa

[Lobo]

<< https://wwf.panda.org/es/?75340/A-numbers-game-Managing-elephants-in-southern-Africa  >>

If any culling must happen -- and there are alternatives to explore before we resort to that -- it should be very limited, done under the supervision of locally-managed Conservatories (as explained in the article) that also receive the fees, and should be limited to adolescent, sick, wounded, or overly aggressive individuals (the first three as would be done by natural predators to keep the species genetically strong and numerically in check).

And as much as I hate to say it (being a male myself), limited to young male "bulls". In contrast to the patriarchal whitetail deer herds that you and I are familiar with, that consist of one male with a "harem" of females -- with other males living on the fringes, occasionally coming in to challenge the dominant male for his females -- elephant herds are very matriarchal, consisting entirely of all-age females and pre-adolescent males. As soon as they reach adolescence, males leave -- or are ejected -- from the herd, living mostly as loners that compete with each other for sex during mating season.

As for the larger question, it is a conundrum, with no apparent solution: a species (actually, three distinct species, including African Elephants and African Pygmy Elephants, as well as Asian Elephants) that are all critically endangered, but "overpopulated" within the bounds of some of the Parks they're confined to.

Unfortunately, the obvious solution -- increasing the habitat available to them and other wild species -- is politically unpalatable, since it requires placing limits on human overpopulation. But it's an absolute necessity if life on Earth is to survive at all. We cannot have infinite human growth on a very finite planet. And by the time we're forced by Nature to accept that fact, most life on Earth will be gone.

Earlier humans drove the other human-contemporary elephant species -- the Mammoths and Mastodons -- to extinction even before we invented civilization. But at least those humans didn't know what they were doing. We do.