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Challenge to Anti-Hunters: Save 170 Namibian Elephants by Buying and Moving Them

It’s time that we talk about the elephant in the room. Instead of using their money to help wildlife, most celebrity anti-hunters focus on stopping legal, sustainable hunting and offer no solutions for helping wildlife.

Jens Ulrik Høgh, Communication Officer for Nordisk Safari Klub, has a solution for anti-hunters that want to save wildlife. In a recent statement, Høgh challenges outspoken anti’s to buy surplus elephants being sold by Namibia. Essentially put your money where your mouth is.

We have previously proposed that individuals and groups, who are against population management of wildlife using hunting as a management tool, simply buy the surplus animals and take care of them.
 
Last year we offered a black rhino bull and later 10 Namibian giraffes to loud anti-hunters and animal rights NGOs. None of them stepped up to the plate.
 
Now the Ministry of Environment Forestry and Tourism in Namibia are selling four lots of surplus elephants – 170 in total – to the highest bidders. They are even open to let the pachyderms be exported if the buyers should wish to repatriate the animals. So here is another chance for Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, PETA, HSUS, Zac Goldsmith, Trevor Noah, Kevin Pietersen, Ricky Gervais, Eduardo Goncalves, and all the other antis to show the world how their alternatives work in real life. And this time, the animals are not offered for sale by hunters. They are offered by the country directly affected by the human/wildlife conflict these surplus elephants cause. Impoverished communities are threatened with their lives and livelihood. These elephants need to go.
 
So put your money where you’re mouths are! If you truly care for elephants and you really have a good population management solution, I am sure that you can raise the necessary funds between the millions of you…
 
You have until January 29th, 2021, to leave your bids, prepare your habitat, and hire your teams of vets and transport personnel. We are all looking forward to seeing you doing more than screaming. This is a golden opportunity to start using some of the funds you raise towards actual nature conservation.
 
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