Talk:Trophy hunting

message: Trophy hunting is very specialized, many a times even as large a fee as US$60000 is charged as Trophy fees for hunting an exotic animal in exotic lands or on hunting ranches, some of it is used and plouged back into conservation of Endangered species, there is a very important wildlife conservation aspect to trophy hunting, some of the money goes back to countries and very poor communities who then have an incentive to save these and other highly endangered species and their  original habitatAtulsnischal 09:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: SHOULD NOT BE MERGED

message: I have finally gone public with my new article:
* Reindeer hunting in Greenland
-- Fyslee/talk 08:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article: Reindeer hunting in Greenland 

message: Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game. 
"It also refers to canned hunting." I dont like the wording of this, seems very biased. It would be like saying sexual intercourse is xxxxxx. It also refers to sexualy abusing children.
Some trophy hunting might be canned, but not all canned hunting is trophy hunting.--Polygamyx4 08:29, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it should be changed. The whole article is POV and seems only to refer to fenced or stocked type trophy hunts, as opposed to fair-chase pursuit of a wild animal. Arthurrh 20:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: There is somekind of judging, evaluation for tusk, horn,... etc..   that are hunted, found or something. CIC points? SCI range? Does anyone know anything about that? --Domjanovich (talk) 15:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Found this   also. --Domjanovich (talk) 17:19, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Evaluation/judging of wild game trophies

message: I have just reverted a combined edit by a new user Spy88 and referred to this talk page in the edit summary rather than summarize it all in a few words.  There's a few points. 
The changes are POV, or presenting a point-of-view.  Wikipedia needs to remain neutral. Both supporting and opposing views can be included, if accompanied by reliable sources.
It reads like an essay, rather than a statement of fact.
You changed the lead significantly.  The lead is only intended to be an introduction to the subject, and not all-encompassing.
Some spellings were changed that were already correct.  See the appropriate page re UK/US spellings.
Can I suggest, (and this is not a rule but only a suggestion) that you make a small edit at a time, with a few words in the edit summary to show what you are including or deleting and why. 
Feel free to discuss anything you want to edit here and any of us will be able to advise.--Dmol (talk) 07:35, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits by Spy88.  

message: The second list in the Statistics section, which claims to list the top five trophy species imported to the US from Africa in 2005-2014, is incorrect. If you go to the source, it's merely listing the percentage of "Big Five" species imported to the US from various African countries. Therefore, the list must include the African Lion, African Elephant, African Leopard, Southern White Rhino, and African Buffalo, since these are, by definition, the "Big Five". The list displayed in the Wiki article is false in its claim that these are the top five trophy species imported to the US from Africa in 2005-2014. As evidenced in the list above it, the actual top five would probably be Impala, Common wildebeest, Greater kudu, Gemsbok, and Springbok, since these are all African animals. But including this corrected list would be redundant. Thus, I argue to remove the second list from the Statistics section altogether. Jescapism (talk) 17:40, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistics section 

message: I just restored this content after someone deleted it.
What do other editors think of it?
The Washington Post and New York Times have both published articles on how trophy hunting can, when done properly, lead to increases in the populations of endangered animals.
In 2015, a Texas hunter who had won an auction paid $350,000 for legal permission to kill an endangered black rhinoceros in Namibia. The Washington Post wrote the following about the particular animal that was chosen for this kill: "The bull, Knowlton said, was a problem in his own herd. The animal was too old to breed but so aggressive that it had already killed calves, cows and and other male rhinoceroses in a jealous rage." The money was used to fund conservation efforts. Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism had approved of the kill. The meat was eaten by residents of a nearby village.Texas hunter who paid $350,000 to kill an endangered black rhino has bagged his prey, Washington Post, May 21, 2015
 	
In 2017, a hunter paid $35,000 for permission to kill one bongo at a ranch in Texas. The ranch's manager said this was enough money to feed the ranch's approximately 30 remaining bongos for an entire year.Blood and Beauty on a Texas Exotic-Game Ranch, New York Times, October 19, 2017
In 2017, wildlife experts said the ranches in Texas had more blackbuck antelope than their native country of India.
71.182.238.157 (talk) 13:09, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a wildly misleading claim, as both the WAPO and the NYT have also published articles that pretty much say the opposite. It should be removed per WP:UNDUE.--C.J. Griffin (talk) 13:57, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with C.J. Griffin (talk). The articles cited to support trophy hunting also report both sides of the argument. It is WP:UNDUE. I have reverted the edit for now as the exclusion of this text has been relatively long standing. Robynthehode (talk) 14:02, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washington Post and New York Times report how trophy hunting increases populations 

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message: Link number 3 in the References tab doesn't seem to work. The page simply doesn't exist.
The same is true for link 41. Thus the parts of the article that are supported by these references should either be deleted or some new citations must be added to back up the claims. 
The following claim "These facilities are important in terms of tourism in Africa, one of the continent's largest economic sectors, accounting for almost 5% of South Africa's GDP" doesn't seem to be supported by the citations (links 5 and 12), and the information seems out of date. Some other sources indicate that tourism accounts for less than 5% of South Africa's GDP as of 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290545/contribution-of-travel-and-tourism-to-gdp-in-south-africa/.
Alex Bilyan (talk) 12:26, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some dead links and citation issues.