Sverre how is this topic so complicated?
Gemsbok don't live natural in the EC
nor do the other species live Natural in Texas, or Florida it's what we call in English an "analogy"
If your content with hunting stocked game that's great, but why try to sell the idea to those who don't buy it?
The only reason for this debate between these few people is that they are trying to sell this idea to themsleves and convince themselves that the hunting of non-native species is really Okay as long as it was on the continent of Africa. After all they are from the African continent so it must be natual..........right?
WRONG
They are not natural from the area they were killed, Not any more then shooting a whitetail deer, Nyala, waterbuffalo, tar, pronghorn antelope, Big horn sheep, or Leopard would be in Sweden!
I think hunting game farm stocked animals is fine. I have absolutely no problem with this. I've done it on two occasions with kids. However everybody knew this going into to place.
The problem I have is with the way RSA runs this safari business. They know how uneducated the average American hunter is regarding natural wild game, and they don't tell them what they are hunting has been planted or stocked after being farm raised or trapped and relocated in these consessions. Then these hunters come here and are so embarrassed about what they bought into they actually try to argue the point. Just as is seen right here on this very site!
You're reading about these folks claiming this is not the case, these are natural. There is a whole lot of misinformed folks thinking that because an animal is born someplace that makes it indigenous. Just because it is born there does not make it indigenous and natural.
RSA is simply banking on the fact that Americans don't know what's going on and when they tell the story of the hunt that everyone they tell is also so badly misinformed they also assume that all African game lives all across Africa. Nothing could be further from the truth! African game is just as exclusive to parts of the African continent as big game is exclusive to specific areas of North America.
Changes are in the works, and will take place in our lifetime. There will be a point at which RSA will only allow the hunting of wild natural indigenous species. The plans and new regulations are in the works as I type this. RSA is finally doing the right thing and correcting for the horrible put and take hunting that has been so cheap and degrading to the Safari industry there.
