Hunting for memories

As hunters we always claim that hunting is conservation and that it is a very important tool to ensure the continuation of conserving wild places. We mainly link this to some form of financial incentive, be it for rural communities, for land owners or for ourselves as hunters. “If it pays, it stays” is the almost over-used credo. “Only if game has value will it be worth protecting”.

Hagen Denker

Personally, I have a different take on this: not an individual animal or species is what gives value and reason to hunting, but nature as a whole. And pristine nature at that. Conservation cannot merely be justified and defined by a headcount of the number of game animals present at a place. Conservation must look at the health of nature and the originality – for lack of a better word – of nature, how each species has its place in a habitat and plays its role in the life cycle of an ecosystem. Hunting – and the financials that inadvertently come with it – should be about the experience, about experiencing nature in all its layers. From a very early stage in my career I personally had difficulty to “hunt…

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