Goodwill hunting.
1. What is Green Hunting?
Green hunting is when you get the thrill of hunting without the dead animal, meaning that they use no live ammunition, only dart guns with tranquilizes to knock out the
2. Where and what is Kwandwe?
A 20,000 hectare private game reserve
3. Why is a qualified Vet employed?
To insure the safety of the animals
4. How much does a hunt cost?
$12,000 for a rhino and $15,000 for a lion
5. How long does it take for the drugs to take effect?
20 minutes
6. Why is the animal at risk each time it is darted?
Each time an animal is darted its life is at risk. The drugs can kill them because their filtration system can’t get chemicals out of its system. It could also fall over and injure itself, possibly impale itself on a tree stump. It is stressing to the animal as they aren’t used to being shot at.
7. Why are microchips inserted into the rhino’s horn?
To track where the horn I goes and to discourage poachers from hunting them
8. How much are horns worth on the black market?
Half a million dollars per kg
9. How many animals could be shot each night before Green hunting?
200 animals per night
10. Why is Green Hunting controversial?
Because not everyone likes that hunters are conservationists, it can be done to frequently and not effectively.
11. Do you think that Green Hunting is an effective conservation strategy? Why?
I believe that green hunting is an effective way to conserve and protect animals if it is done the right way. It’s a very good way to financially support the reserve, funding the anti-poaching team, and it is a good way to get treatment for the animal that would already have to be done.
Green hunting is when you get the thrill of hunting without the dead animal, meaning that they use no live ammunition, only dart guns with tranquilizes to knock out the
2. Where and what is Kwandwe?
A 20,000 hectare private game reserve
3. Why is a qualified Vet employed?
To insure the safety of the animals
4. How much does a hunt cost?
$12,000 for a rhino and $15,000 for a lion
5. How long does it take for the drugs to take effect?
20 minutes
6. Why is the animal at risk each time it is darted?
Each time an animal is darted its life is at risk. The drugs can kill them because their filtration system can’t get chemicals out of its system. It could also fall over and injure itself, possibly impale itself on a tree stump. It is stressing to the animal as they aren’t used to being shot at.
7. Why are microchips inserted into the rhino’s horn?
To track where the horn I goes and to discourage poachers from hunting them
8. How much are horns worth on the black market?
Half a million dollars per kg
9. How many animals could be shot each night before Green hunting?
200 animals per night
10. Why is Green Hunting controversial?
Because not everyone likes that hunters are conservationists, it can be done to frequently and not effectively.
11. Do you think that Green Hunting is an effective conservation strategy? Why?
I believe that green hunting is an effective way to conserve and protect animals if it is done the right way. It’s a very good way to financially support the reserve, funding the anti-poaching team, and it is a good way to get treatment for the animal that would already have to be done.