Should wildlife be captured-hunted

For the purposes of assisting species survival or injured wildlife...many times a created situation by man. I'm an endorser.

And the sooner their reintroduction into the wild the better. Consequently I remain a supporter of nature parks and reserves where governmental authorities maintain their watch in preservational efforts.

(a noted exception was and is the treatment of wild horses on BLM controlled acreage...a f**king total disgrace)


Otoh, I have never been a huge fan of zoos or private complexes.

(Even though I remain well aware of ancient and more modern practices, in varying facets, reference the interaction of wildlife and people. And their display or capture for amusement or trophy practices)

Dunno why really and yes I have been to several. No matter how well run and maintained I'm generally not pleased there but rather sad.

Bars, cages and even more modern designed restrictive measures, still smack of a sense of inappropriateness for me.

Given the modern age of film, video, and computers it's not a question of information on habitat and or their nature and interaction that's a practical concern for me. Nor, imo, should it be for others.

I grew up on the high and lonely lonesome. And never ever am I far from it, if at all possible. It's beauty both in flora and fauna remain a child like delight for an ole horse trooper.

And it's there that wildlife belongs, afaic, for it's there that they were intended.

Because I have no ancient need for meat, skins and or bones-horns to prove my virility or for survival; versus my more ancient fore bearers anymore.

(And full disclosure: was an occasional an avid hunter for many years)

That period in life has passed however. And short of an unprecedented disaster situation..


It shall remain so.


Amen.


   

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

Certainly u make a valid point for the protection and reverence of all life Sid....

but there's a galactic difference, imo, between arboretums and conservatories, or even groomed city parks. And animals in confinement simply because we can. For the former often provide sanctuaries for wild creatures as do their wild cousins-versions.

But a Lion or a Bull Elk or many other types of wild creatures deserve their freedom.... and sry.... but i'm not buying into the conscious desire of a plant to be thus.