{"id":24075,"date":"2019-02-12T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24075"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:08:45","slug":"how-about-a-better-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/12\/how-about-a-better-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"How About A Better Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo<\/strong><\/em> has a report<\/a> on another hunter bagging a rare creature:<\/p>\n

The photograph, published last week in Pakistani newspapers, was stunning. It showed a magnificent mountain goat, with huge, symmetrically spiral horns, nestled on a rock and surrounded by breathtaking snowy mountains, with a man kneeling and smiling behind it.<\/p>\n

It took a few seconds to realize that the animal, a wild Astore markhor, was dead. The caption described the man as an American hunter who had paid a record $110,000 to shoot it on a tourist expedition to Pakistan\u2019s northern Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Outraged? Here’s the defense:<\/p>\n

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Lovely horns.<\/p><\/div>\n

But there is another, more benign, rationale behind allowing Harlan, along with two other Americans, to pay enormous sums to kill three long-horned markhors in northern Pakistan in the past month. According to Pakistani officials and conservation groups, the practice has actually helped save a rare and endangered species from potential extinction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about this: you pays your $110,000, and when one of these impressive animals dies of natural causes, you can have the head. Or the entire body.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or maybe you can hunt them, but you can only shoot one that would never reproduce again. Although making that work seems a bit difficult. Not to mention the utility of animals lying exclusively in their gonads is an unwarranted assumption. I don’t know for markhors, but among elephants the leadership of the matriarchs is an important element in their long-term survival strategy.<\/p>\n

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WaPo has a report on another hunter bagging a rare creature: The photograph, published last week in Pakistani newspapers, was stunning. It showed a magnificent mountain goat, with huge, symmetrically spiral horns, nestled on a rock and surrounded by breathtaking snowy mountains, with a man kneeling and smiling behind it. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24076,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}