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Nov 15, 2023·edited Nov 15, 2023

Well done, Jared. I could do a Twitter poll among my followers and it would be more relevant ... It's indeed a mystery that none of the usual suspects want to even mention this weird survey. Maybe the PR wasn't supposed to be this obvious.

Regarding racism, there was a wildly racist article within the general pro-TH campaign in September, in Times Travel. A tourism investor - Chris Fox - whose family lobbied for an expansion of Ruaha National Park that has led to neverending human rights violations speaks for Tanzania in that article. The article's message is that trophy hunters are repugnant, but "we" are doomed without them since nothing is more repugnant than rural Africans land uses. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-uks-ban-on-trophy-hunting-will-harm-wildlife-this-is-why-2bbn52nk5

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I knew the poll sounded suspicious, especially after listening to the accounts of locals in Zimbabwe and Tanzania who absolutely DESPISE foreign trophy hunters. Jared, didn’t you interview somebody from Zimbabwe a while back?

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