"Trophy hunting is a form of
wildlife use that, when well-managed, may assist in furthering conservation objectives"
(IUCN)
My respect for WWF is
substantially diminished over the years, now the intent of CITES, as was elucidated
by one of its spokesperson, has appalled me in no small measure. As one was trying
to come in terms with serious ethical breaches and moral expediencies comes the
revelation of IUCN. Are these people for conservation or is conservation a ruse
for furthering themselves and their ways, animals as a convenient alibi to
spread oneself. Animals cannot speak so you can be the spokesperson and
manipulate (reminds me of cunning Indian elite who with effortless feudal ease seek
to represent common people and rub it in through ever purifying moral matrix).
It
is becoming quite clear that the wildlife related conservation issues are still
run by erstwhile hunters and colonisers. The kind of literature on hunting by colonisers
will leave you baffled, the depravity of it beyond shock. Indeed if you visit
Bharatpur bird sanctuary you will see a placard on the number of birds killed
in one go, it crosses thousands. What kind of sick people will do these? These
hunting zones were protected as they wanted the numbers to increase so that
they can kill for their perverse pleasure. These regions later acquired the status
of wildlife sanctuaries, so conservation wasn’t the early concern. During these
massacres of animals for pleasure common people’s knowledge were used for tracking,
while Indian elite were enthusiastic participants of massacre creating their own
records to match the masters. In the weekends they cemented further as they fawned over
master’s gentlemanly attributes through cricket (like squatter’s temples
cricket was also quite successfully pushed through the throats of common
people, with immense success and relish. Cursory study will show how mediocrity
thrived as it sucked on), they also got essential lessons on modernity that
they easily blended into feudal norms and sickening traditions.
It is in this context I find the
ease to analyse WWF, CITES, IUCN so on (I must again express my gratefulness to
Indian elite and their depraved ways). Clearly the erstwhile hunters and decadent
colonisers have occupied responsible positions in the wildlife conservation related
organisations. They might have morphed themselves successfully as conservators
but their intent will show in the crucial situations. ‘Trophy hunting’ is such
an occasion where they open up as practical souls with higher intent in mind. The kind of conservation strategy that they
pursue quite clearly carries the legacy of brutes and colonisers. Selective
killing maybe used as a last resort to balance or to weed out, in rare
instances, but trophy hunting is a different matter. It seeks to encourage sick
minds and their debauched ways, it is awfully disturbing. Even the monetary gains
and ‘economic incentives’, that seeks to exploit the poverty in an exceedingly
classist framework, doesn’t stand scrutiny. A study shows that 70.4 percent of
Americans would pay to view lions on an African safari, while only 6.6 percent
would pay to hunt them.
The people who are holding responsible
positions in WWF, IUCN, CITES etc. must be scrutinised closely, the erstwhile
scums seems to have morphed as conservators. Ironically people who are
connected to forest and its ways generally tend to be sustainable in the
practice and compassionate in their outlook. They rarely kill for fun, sick
thrills nor will support depraved minds, their poverty (which ofcourse is the
result of skewed nature of socio-economic system, than any claim to competence.
Donald trump is a sterling example) is being exploited for furthering one’s debauched
ways.
My respect for WWF is
substantially diminished over the years, now the intent of CITES, as was elucidated
by one of its spokesperson, has appalled me in no small measure. As one was trying
to come in terms with serious ethical breaches and moral expediencies comes the
revelation of IUCN. Are these people for conservation or is conservation a ruse
for furthering themselves and their ways, animals as a convenient alibi to
spread oneself. Animals cannot speak so you can be the spokesperson and
manipulate (reminds me of cunning Indian elite who with effortless feudal ease seek
to represent common people and rub it in through ever purifying moral matrix). 
It
is becoming quite clear that the wildlife related conservation issues are still
run by erstwhile hunters and colonisers. The kind of literature on hunting by colonisers
will leave you baffled, the depravity of it beyond shock. Indeed if you visit
Bharatpur bird sanctuary you will see a placard on the number of birds killed
in one go, it crosses thousands. What kind of sick people will do these? These
hunting zones were protected as they wanted the numbers to increase so that
they can kill for their perverse pleasure. These regions later acquired the status
of wildlife sanctuaries, so conservation wasn’t the early concern. During these
massacres of animals for pleasure common people’s knowledge were used for tracking,
while Indian elite were enthusiastic participants of massacre creating their own
records to match the masters. In the weekends they cemented further as they fawned over
master’s gentlemanly attributes through cricket (like squatter’s temples
cricket was also quite successfully pushed through the throats of common
people, with immense success and relish. Cursory study will show how mediocrity
thrived as it sucked on), they also got essential lessons on modernity that
they easily blended into feudal norms and sickening traditions.
It is in this context I find the
ease to analyse WWF, CITES, IUCN so on (I must again express my gratefulness to
Indian elite and their depraved ways). Clearly the erstwhile hunters and decadent
colonisers have occupied responsible positions in the wildlife conservation related
organisations. They might have morphed themselves successfully as conservators
but their intent will show in the crucial situations. ‘Trophy hunting’ is such
an occasion where they open up as practical souls with higher intent in mind. The kind of conservation strategy that they
pursue quite clearly carries the legacy of brutes and colonisers. Selective
killing maybe used as a last resort to balance or to weed out, in rare
instances, but trophy hunting is a different matter. It seeks to encourage sick
minds and their debauched ways, it is awfully disturbing. Even the monetary gains
and ‘economic incentives’, that seeks to exploit the poverty in an exceedingly
classist framework, doesn’t stand scrutiny. A study shows that 70.4 percent of
Americans would pay to view lions on an African safari, while only 6.6 percent
would pay to hunt them.
The people who are holding responsible
positions in WWF, IUCN, CITES etc. must be scrutinised closely, the erstwhile
scums seems to have morphed as conservators. Ironically people who are
connected to forest and its ways generally tend to be sustainable in the
practice and compassionate in their outlook. They rarely kill for fun, sick
thrills nor will support depraved minds, their poverty (which ofcourse is the
result of skewed nature of socio-economic system, than any claim to competence.
Donald trump is a sterling example) is being exploited for furthering one’s debauched
ways.
The picture herein is that Donald
trump’s son. A CNN newsreader, an Afro-American trying to balance the discussion,
was saying in defence of Trump “...but his children are normal and not in wrong
ways”. Being normal is such a big deal, even in this limited ethical space look
what is there to see. Sickening.
