@@doctordef324do your research, it's not just because, it's to protect the younger population of animals from the older aggressive one that is no longer able to breed , if they don't kill it it will kill all the younger ones and the population will greatly reduce without this method
You hunt how? By sitting in a tree shooting a deer from far away? You need to get close to the elephant to take it down. Also, this takes way more balls because the elephant can actually kill you
@@jaydunbar7538 “we” as in 95% of the world Elephants are on two continents, and the largest of the two in the continent of Africa. Now we have to take the population that lives in the vicinity of those bulls, the people who have been on safaris that have seen, the big game hunter that have seen them, and the very few veterinarians that have had the pleasure to treat such an animal. We’ll be liberal and say “we” is 90% of earths population.
America used two Atomic Bombs on babies. Germany starved millions of Jews. 120 million people killed by their own governments in the last 100 years. FDR added to that number. Animals are not high on my list of things to have compassion for. But, no, I have no interest in hunting anything in Africa. I hunt and fish in the national forest I live in.
@@tanvirsourav83 buddy, you dont even know why they are endangered. and its not habitat, its paochers. and fyi in africa it is accepted to kill elephants, lions, etc when they cause problems.
Countries where there is an over abundance of elephants allow hunting (Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania). Countries where elephants and many other species are endangered don't allow controlled hunting and have poaching problems (Kenya). It's emotional for everyone. Imagine your emotions if you were those hunters for a second, you miss and you die. Imagine you're a villager and elephants just moved through and destroyed your livestock fences and leveled all of your trees and ate a few branches and moved on, you repair them and then next month it happens again. There is a lot of nuance and caveats to this. Nature is always a balance. It is not fair to the elephants or the hunters or the agencies and biologists that give the hunters permission and licensing to harvest these elephants for strangers to pretend they are at the local zoo and pass judgement. The basic question is would you rather see it done in a controlled and sustainable way that benefits the local area with meat and money, or in the shadows and darkness by thieves and smugglers.
The truth is, what is considered "over abundand" today, is actually less than 2% of the elephant population a few centuries ago. Their numbers went from 25 million to 400,000. Makes you wonder if it's the elephants who are over abundant, or us.
When they pay the government its "hunting", but If they dont give the government their cut, it'sit now called "poaching"...the difference has always been the government getting a piece of the action
You do realize these guys and others pay thousands and thousands of dollars to hunt elephant and the money the government gets goes back elephant conservation the moneys not going to corrupt politicians these hunts are also beneficial for the small villages in africa
The same as hunting a wild hog. Most hunters climb a tree stand and wait for a buck to come to them. Is that not hunting? Also, the meat is eaten by the villagers.
Hey so how do you guys stuff those Elephants and how is one sent to your house if you want it shipped overseas or do you have it taxidermies in your country
People being like 'well the locals would have just killed them', yeah the locals would have harvested it's parts and recycled it to the most it could be used. But instead I'm supposed to feel like people coming from far away places to hunt animals that the locals could have hunted and take their bodies away for personal profit is a good thing?
@@joefather6084actually they don't take anything. The local tribes get all the meat and everything else including the bones. The hunter is lucky if he gets to walk away with anything. That's the beauty of African hunting. The locals have ALL the say about what you do and don't do.
You should still feel bad because your initial thoughts were correct. Bull elephants don't get aggressive unless they're in musk. An elephant in musk is a breeding elephant, therefore they're killing non-aggressive elephants just for the thrill of it. They're killing and making excuses really. Another thing, if they tell you that this killing only happens where the laws allow because of overpopulation, that's also a lie. Tanzania where they allow this, shares a border with Kenya where this is illegal. The Mara and the Serengeti are connected. The animals migrate back and forth. How can we in Kenya report that their numbers are dwindling then when they migrate to Tanzania, hunters are given licenses to kill them? Human intervention is not needed in their ecosystem, but spineless leaders make decisions without foresight. Soon, elephants will be rare and all these ecology experts advocating for culling will move on to the next big game to apply their expertise there. On and on and there will be no more elephants, lions, giraffes, cheetahs, leopards, hippos. Poachers have already almost extincted Rhinos. In time tusked elephants will follow in line because of the many bleeding hearts for the poacher and his right to take a trophy home.
Sooooo why did they shoot the bull elephant? Not complaining about its death but just curious, was it dangerous? Rampaging through villages without provoke? Killing other elephants for no reason? Or was it a rogue elephant if that exists
@@The.Darkest.Knight-hj5bz Maybe for an idiot. They even refer to this execution as "hunt." Some adults should take away the guns from these childish people.
That dentist and his friend sure held great composure. What a great hunter. Walked off the path and everything and blasted that Elephant mid charge. Just the prowess of him as a hunter. Legend, I got chills.
Remember the Holocaust? And FDR refusing to save any Jews? Two Atomic Bombs used on children? Animals are not on my list of things to cry about. By the way, 120 million people killed their own government in the last 100 years. Not counting wars.
For anyone wondering, hunting elephants on occasion is necessary for healthy population control. This is usually done through cullings but is also sold as hunts to private hunters to raise money for conservation.
Also human is overpopulating, someone needs to control them where this type of jerk exist that they think other animals population should be controlled by slaughter them, you better understand than nature huh :()
@@godzilladestroyscities1757 botwana has 80k too many elephants and are in a state of crisis because they are causing mass deforestation. The issue is not with the price of the hunts (10-20k) but with the trophy importation laws making it impossible to bring even the smallest ivory mementos back, thanks to all the greenies and western bleeding hearts.
@@Icreatedthisbymistake They eat trees not grass, they are actually capable of killing trees by overeating from them. They're extremely destructive in large numbers but they're sort of like nature's lumberjack by keeping tree growth to a healthy limit in Savannah's.
@@dundeeecroc yeah as long as the conservation money can properly hinder illegal poaching/protect the asset that is the elephant, it’s a lot less horrible than it seems. Killing bulls is typically good for population diversity, as long as it’s supported by good science and sustainable
@@guttasnipe4702 Why? few things arise to the questions.... the Old bull is probably too old to mate, the Old Bull my also be keeping the younger Bulls from mating to maintain a healthy herd. the old Bull may have underlying health issues that cannot be reversed. there are many factors , he also could be breaking through the perimeter and damaging homes in villages outside the Game Reserve.
I have a feeling that elephant knew what was going to happen and he couldn’t do anything but walk forward and accept whatever it was the humans were about to do
is it much of a hunt if you fly in on a helicopter, round it up, step off with a high powered rifle, and shoot it? Or is that for sport? Obviously there's sport hunting yes, but where's the hunt in flying in and just shooting it?
I understand the first part about the helicopter, but elephants are very large and dangerous game. there is a reason there is a whole class of firearms called elephant rifles. they were designed to have the penetration and power to have more of an effect than a bee sting on the elephants. Elephant rifles have been around have been around since the 1700s and the ones these hunters used are not even the largest
so people that drive their cars to go fishing would be nonsporting? riding an atv to a hunting location nonsporting? taking a flight from the east coast to the west coast to hunt nonsporting? 😄
@@Deadeye-lc8cb I only partly get the critique of flying in on a helicopter, though. Yes, its not hte same story as some 19th century british gentry braving the savannah for weeks on horseback for weeks, but the helicopter wasn't really a part of the hunt, it was how he got to the base camp for the hunt. The hunt was actually on foot.
Depends what part of Africa I guess. But this hunt here is actually a part of the conservation effort for elephants and rhinos. They only do select hunts and all the money goes back into conservation and anti poaching efforts. Pretty sure it's working quite well too.
@@dylStar00989 We should treat them well but not to a human degree. We still have dominion over them. Dogs are used for hunting cats for mice and other animals for transportation for us as well as food. It only has value to the degree it gives it to us. And in this case the elephant is legally a pest.
@ utterly childish. plus you’re just another rage bait. go waste mommies time instead of mine. people like you need to stay away from the orange vests🗣️ (condolences if she’s passed😮💨 but that’s a giving seeming as how you consider murdering creatures who aren’t even invasive “hunting”)
One bite at a time? Word spreads pretty soon a whole village sized crew shows up with buckets and baskets and takes away all the meat they can carry. Kind of like that scene with the airplane in lord of war. I've also read accounts of villagers following the hunting parties to get first dibs.
meat and employment for the locals...and a reason to keep the elephants around rather than letting poachers eliminate the herds--which is what they've done across Africa where hunting has been banned.
@@garywatson9917 Shame you have no idea what you're talking about but continue to post nonsense. I derive no funds from these hunts...in fact, I pay for the privilege to be there. What has been your contribution to conservation?
@@garywatson9917 from The NY Times: The United States Fish and Wildlife Service last month moved to allow hunters to bring home trophies from elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Safe to say, few conservationists saw it coming. In a 39-page report, the agency cited Zimbabwe’s progress in creating a sound management plan for its 82,000 elephants and evidence that hunting revenue is in fact reinvested into conservation. Well-managed trophy hunting “would not have an adverse effect on the species, but can further efforts to conserve the species in the wild,” the agency concluded.
I know most of the comments are quite negative but and however remember that the population of elephants in bots is simply out of control the elephants are very destructive creatures by nature and there simply needs to be a way to control the situation so to bring in large amounts of money from trophy hunters and keep an uncontrolled population down, as well as protecting the local ecosystems for all animals in the long run is a win win in my book
@@1362pcOr you know we could let it be eaten alive, suffering a long painful death. Since wild animals rarely go out due to old age, it’s due to not being in their prime and eventually succumbing to an attack by other predators. Education is free, however you have to set aside your feelings big boy you got this 😅 That’s not to mention the fact that the area they’re also in has an elephant overpopulation issue, which wrecks havoc on the locals.. though you’re too in your feelings to even ponder different perspectives.
as soon as the huge poaching problems of elephants is solved - then hunters should hunt elephants - not before - the only exception should be a rogue elephant that has caused problems to villagers or other elephants - and this comes from a dedicated hunter who has hunted africa twice and will go again this june
Tôi ủng hộ săn bắn và ủng hộ mục đích giúp đỡ người dân địa phương và duy trì mức độ bền vững để tránh dân số quá đông. Nhưng ngay cả khi đó, tôi vẫn đau lòng khi chứng kiến một sinh vật điềm tĩnh và uy nghiêm như vậy bị giết khi nhìn chúng với vẻ tò mò.
In one of Peter Capstick's books, he tells the story of an 1900's ivory hunter than used a 6mm rifle, and would shoot the elephants right behind the ear and they dropped instantly.
@@beaureynolds4480 It's not poaching. Poaching is the illegal killing of an animal, for fun or for the trophy. This hunt was completely legal. The country these people are hunting in (Botswana) has an extreme over population problem with elephants, causing problems for the villages like, elephants stomping through them and destroying them, killing the villagers, destroying the villagers crops, etc. After this elephant is killed , the meat gets donated to local villages, the tusks go home with the hunter and the money spent on the hunt goes to conservation efforts.
People, get off your soap boxes. The fact of the matter is nothing on this animal will go to waste, not even the teeth. And these animals are NOT as threatened as people think. These hunters pay literally 50 grand each to hunt and thats a MINIMUM. where does that money go? Towards the ranger services that go out in the bush armed to the teeth to hunt poachers. THAT'S what they mean by conservation and yes thats exactly what it does. There are over 150,000 elements just in botswana! Not even counting for other places like Kenya where its completely illegal to hunt ANYTHING.
So, if you are rich, you can do what cash-strapped poachers do illegally, which could cost them their lives for enough money. Is that what you are saying?
@ajaxada5786 what poachers do is OVER hunt. There's a reason why hunters pay so much money. It's because the money spent by legal hunters goes directly towards conservation. Usually directly towards the training and arming of anti poaching squads. You've clearly never been hunting nor do you know much of anything in regards to the subject.
@@dunkers5672 of course it doesn't. Because you're not a hunter NOR do you know anything about hunting. So don't say shit about things ya don't flippin know about. The money hunters spend to hunt goes DIRECTLY towards the protection of all these species. Basically a police force that enforces hunting rules, regulations and laws. Does it make more sense now?
For those wondering on “why” they did this. It’s a conservation hunt. For starters, most likely that big old male was infertile and wasn’t contributing to the population anymore, while also challenging younger fertile males for females… overtime this causes population damage and will end up decreasing the elephant population. Secondly a very little amount of the meat actually goes to the hunters, but stays in Africa and feeds tribes. Thirdly, A large amount of the money goes to conservation for the animals hunted, and other species in Africa (For example the Giraffe population in Africa has gone up by 20% since 2015 due to a lot of funds from conservation hunts). I would like to also point out, if these guys were inhumane killers and poachers they wouldn’t have taken the time to have a humane kill.
Who do you think manages the hunting in Africa snowflake? The permits are sold by Africans and the hunting benefits Africans in ways you obviously have no clue about.
@josephinetracy1485 the elephants cause a lot of trouble to the villagers, they're not endangered in Botswana and the elephant was probably too old to mate so it wasn't that bad I agree that dogs are way too protected.
See countries with elephants have too many elephants now and a lot of countries do not want them when offered because of damages to crops and the world expects the countries with elephants to just be a sanctuary for them. You must control the population.
I’m a hunter. This is not hunting.
Real hunters kill for food.... Bad people kill for fun.
A hunter 😂 something tells me you put cameras out, sit 25 feet high in a tree, and shoot Deer eating corn.
How is this any different? If anything, this type of game can fight back and kill you... A deer wont lol.
@@gl9500 And whats wrong with that?
They say the tags cost so fuggin much it helps with conservation and sheeeit. Something definitely feels wrong here. Probably the literal wrongness
The guide's laugh is a laugh of a guy getting a 20k paycheck
Murder elephants for money
30k
Yepp..
It’s a European/white culture thing tbh
@@Jason21012ask the Africans hunting animals there lol
Disgusting. I’m a hunter and this is just egotistical nonsense 😢
How is it different?
@@fupalover Because elephants are on the brink of extinction?
@@erokex killing is killing
@@fupaloverif you can’t distinguish the difference you’re a fucking moron.
@@fupalover Killing an endangered animal has a different impact than a normal one
The fact that our ancestors hunted much bigger than these with Spears is crazy
that was also the most advanced technology of the time.
They where hunters, calling these cowards hunters is big no no.
@@justintyme4690 being a bot is also a no no
They had balls made of iron.
Being hungry will do that to you@@le_souverainiste_francais7420
"That is just a fantastic animal" says a guy who just shot an elephant in the face..
this is just sad
Don’t you call a meal fantastic after eating it? Why are u eating something fantastic?
This is some crazed psycho shyt... Killing a huge intelligent animal just because...😢
@@doctordef324do your research, it's not just because, it's to protect the younger population of animals from the older aggressive one that is no longer able to breed , if they don't kill it it will kill all the younger ones and the population will greatly reduce without this method
@@rosakop1 why wouldnt you eat something fantastic
I feel kinda bad for the elephant just minding his own business and blam some human just blasts you in the face
So bad for sure
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I’d rather have my lights put out in an instant without me knowing than be torn apart by lions
No, it didn't, that's just lies.@@chuckforeman2580
@notacommie.1 elephants don't normally get torn apart by lions especially the bulls that can just kill a bunch
Guns are quite the terrifying invention. The elephant IS MASSIVE and not to be messed with.. yet it falls like paper.
It’s not the guns but how we use them we should be fighting crazy humans and not used for wildlife unless for defense
@@momo_5193 isn't this one of the rogue bulls that tramples villages and threatens people? They were given a permit to hunt it.
@@momo_5193 people like you will find a way to blame everything but the actual subject
@@neuropathical wtf are talking about?? I love guns
@@neuropathical what?
I'm a hunter as well but wtf is this shit ?
Ik this is just bad
How is it different than what you do?
You hunt how? By sitting in a tree shooting a deer from far away? You need to get close to the elephant to take it down. Also, this takes way more balls because the elephant can actually kill you
Real hunting
You aren't a hunter. You are a lying activist.
I don’t think we realize how big a bull elephant really is. Just holy shit. They are huge.
Facts right there✔️
By “we” you mean yourself right? Because some of us do know and have ridden elephants.
@@jaydunbar7538you ain't rode one of them, a cow one third his size maybe
@@jaydunbar7538 “we” as in 95% of the world
Elephants are on two continents, and the largest of the two in the continent of Africa.
Now we have to take the population that lives in the vicinity of those bulls, the people who have been on safaris that have seen, the big game hunter that have seen them, and the very few veterinarians that have had the pleasure to treat such an animal.
We’ll be liberal and say “we” is 90% of earths population.
Bush elephants 12 feet at the shoulder and 12 tons
The basic problem of "overpopulation" of elephants is not enough territory due to overpopulation of humans.
The people that say this always want other people to die, not themselves lol
@@FourKidsNoMoney all while occupying space themselves.
But we have to control their numbers as humans
then give your house to an elephant lol
@@Seancena0927😂
Spent like 5 seconds justifying why he was going to shoot the elephant 🐘..
America used two Atomic Bombs on babies. Germany starved millions of Jews. 120 million people killed by their own governments in the last 100 years. FDR added to that number. Animals are not high on my list of things to have compassion for. But, no, I have no interest in hunting anything in Africa. I hunt and fish in the national forest I live in.
Yeah, I mean if you aren't dumb, it's pretty easy to understand they will make themselves go extinct with over population.
Absolutely disgusting and shameful. No one should be allowed to do this anymore.
Even when they're overrunning the game preserve? How shall they be culled?
@@jmso8096elephants are not overrunning anything stop trying to justify this
I’ve been a hunter all my life. I don’t see why people hunt endangered animals.
They're hunting it because elephants are a bother in some African countries
@@Mi56-u7h They r already endangered cuz of habitat loss...
@tanvirsourav83 they're not endangered in the country they filmed this video
@@tanvirsourav83 buddy, you dont even know why they are endangered. and its not habitat, its paochers. and fyi in africa it is accepted to kill elephants, lions, etc when they cause problems.
🐘: I thought we were friends.
Hell nah
💔
Never ever kill an animal that trusts you.
Not how that works 🤣
man enters elephants habitat, man kills elephant...why
Countries where there is an over abundance of elephants allow hunting (Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania). Countries where elephants and many other species are endangered don't allow controlled hunting and have poaching problems (Kenya). It's emotional for everyone. Imagine your emotions if you were those hunters for a second, you miss and you die. Imagine you're a villager and elephants just moved through and destroyed your livestock fences and leveled all of your trees and ate a few branches and moved on, you repair them and then next month it happens again. There is a lot of nuance and caveats to this. Nature is always a balance. It is not fair to the elephants or the hunters or the agencies and biologists that give the hunters permission and licensing to harvest these elephants for strangers to pretend they are at the local zoo and pass judgement. The basic question is would you rather see it done in a controlled and sustainable way that benefits the local area with meat and money, or in the shadows and darkness by thieves and smugglers.
The truth is, what is considered "over abundand" today, is actually less than 2% of the elephant population a few centuries ago. Their numbers went from 25 million to 400,000. Makes you wonder if it's the elephants who are over abundant, or us.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t cool go ahead and lead by example
@@locknloadvideo Now that escalated quickly. Having a bad day, or do you normally tell people on the internet to end themselves?
@@locknloadvideou the type of person to type out a wall of text, but then refuse to consider another argument
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t Yup that is true. Our population just keeps growing and continues to push out there megafauna species.
For a damn trophy that is a joke man what a beautiful animal tho
Nothing says boomer like shooting an elephant
"Boomer?" Brits were hunting elephants hundreds of years ago.
@@alwaysfreedom9354 Yeah during years of colonisation, slaughter, and enslavement of Africans and Asians.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@alwaysfreedom9354 kinda the point, its old fashioned.
Who shoots an elephant
I guess the owner of an ammunition company.
Retards
What's the difference between these and poachers,
Paying tax
Disgusting I no it's poaching no matter what just legal
When they pay the government its "hunting", but If they dont give the government their cut, it'sit now called "poaching"...the difference has always been the government getting a piece of the action
You do realize these guys and others pay thousands and thousands of dollars to hunt elephant and the money the government gets goes back elephant conservation the moneys not going to corrupt politicians these hunts are also beneficial for the small villages in africa
Exactly
I’m a hunter. This is not hunting at all. This is a cowards trophy. Disgraceful!
Its just a animal don't get emotional
@@Haris20055correct!
Getting that close is cowardly lol?
What do you hunt? Probably things that don't deserve it compared to an elephant
@@Haris20055 agreed but what about a dog?
The same as hunting a wild hog. Most hunters climb a tree stand and wait for a buck to come to them. Is that not hunting? Also, the meat is eaten by the villagers.
Hey so how do you guys stuff those Elephants and how is one sent to your house if you want it shipped overseas or do you have it taxidermies in your country
Actually until the laws are changed the tusks stay in Africa. I guess he could have mount done with fake tusks.
@@frickdogg77 I thought the ivory ban was only on commercial hunting and not private use
@thomasmolyneaux3700 you could be right but I don't think that or polar bears or walrus either
@@Shadowman-1960 You are wrong. The villagers in the area come out and butcher the animals to take home and eat.
@@RR-bh8vd Okay, you're right. Thank you. 👍🏻
even an inexperienced hunter could take down this huge target
Initially I was going to say how disgusted I am to see them kill the old elephant.. but after reading the comments.. I understand..still sad 😢😢
People being like 'well the locals would have just killed them', yeah the locals would have harvested it's parts and recycled it to the most it could be used. But instead I'm supposed to feel like people coming from far away places to hunt animals that the locals could have hunted and take their bodies away for personal profit is a good thing?
@@joefather6084actually they don't take anything. The local tribes get all the meat and everything else including the bones. The hunter is lucky if he gets to walk away with anything. That's the beauty of African hunting. The locals have ALL the say about what you do and don't do.
@@joefather6084The locals get all of the meat from these hunts anyway.
You should still feel bad because your initial thoughts were correct.
Bull elephants don't get aggressive unless they're in musk. An elephant in musk is a breeding elephant, therefore they're killing non-aggressive elephants just for the thrill of it. They're killing and making excuses really.
Another thing, if they tell you that this killing only happens where the laws allow because of overpopulation, that's also a lie. Tanzania where they allow this, shares a border with Kenya where this is illegal. The Mara and the Serengeti are connected. The animals migrate back and forth.
How can we in Kenya report that their numbers are dwindling then when they migrate to Tanzania, hunters are given licenses to kill them? Human intervention is not needed in their ecosystem, but spineless leaders make decisions without foresight.
Soon, elephants will be rare and all these ecology experts advocating for culling will move on to the next big game to apply their expertise there. On and on and there will be no more elephants, lions, giraffes, cheetahs, leopards, hippos. Poachers have already almost extincted Rhinos. In time tusked elephants will follow in line because of the many bleeding hearts for the poacher and his right to take a trophy home.
Sooooo why did they shoot the bull elephant? Not complaining about its death but just curious, was it dangerous? Rampaging through villages without provoke? Killing other elephants for no reason? Or was it a rogue elephant if that exists
Its fun.
@@JackGorton1960sIs it really fun? 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yes. Yes it is
@@The.Darkest.Knight-hj5bz Maybe for an idiot. They even refer to this execution as "hunt." Some adults should take away the guns from these childish people.
they are feeding entire villages with this kill. Keep your ignorant comments to yourself
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That dentist and his friend sure held great composure. What a great hunter. Walked off the path and everything and blasted that Elephant mid charge. Just the prowess of him as a hunter. Legend, I got chills.
Humans are real animals
Technically we are
Remember the Holocaust? And FDR refusing to save any Jews? Two Atomic Bombs used on children? Animals are not on my list of things to cry about. By the way, 120 million people killed their own government in the last 100 years. Not counting wars.
Why you killed that elephant?
Because they have much Money . Big shit
he was heading straight for them.
@@actontreadway1168why were they there in the first place? U got a brain in ur head?
@@sertmizr7320 ruclips.net/video/GaazFYTrQ_A/видео.htmlsi=VhttBn4GrS2sjmmb
5:05 Thank me later :)
Giant was alive 1 second before it collapse on its feet.....
For anyone wondering, hunting elephants on occasion is necessary for healthy population control. This is usually done through cullings but is also sold as hunts to private hunters to raise money for conservation.
Also human is overpopulating, someone needs to control them where this type of jerk exist that they think other animals population should be controlled by slaughter them, you better understand than nature huh :()
I would assume that too many bulls in an area can lead to massive problems.
@@godzilladestroyscities1757 botwana has 80k too many elephants and are in a state of crisis because they are causing mass deforestation. The issue is not with the price of the hunts (10-20k) but with the trophy importation laws making it impossible to bring even the smallest ivory mementos back, thanks to all the greenies and western bleeding hearts.
@@Bartimusblue27
Really? Did you know that elephants live in grassland savannah and not the jungle? What forest are they supposed to be destroying?
@@Icreatedthisbymistake They eat trees not grass, they are actually capable of killing trees by overeating from them. They're extremely destructive in large numbers but they're sort of like nature's lumberjack by keeping tree growth to a healthy limit in Savannah's.
5:14 - The moment that makes you shake your head at the state of mankind. As if you needed another reason.
What is going to happen with the elephant ?
Meat goes to the villagers around that area, tusks comes home with the hunter. money he paid goes to conservation to the parks.
@@dundeeecroc Very well said...
@@dundeeecroc yeah as long as the conservation money can properly hinder illegal poaching/protect the asset that is the elephant, it’s a lot less horrible than it seems.
Killing bulls is typically good for population diversity, as long as it’s supported by good science and sustainable
I’m a hunter but I just cannot understand this……WHY..?
@@guttasnipe4702 Why? few things arise to the questions.... the Old bull is probably too old to mate, the Old Bull my also be keeping the younger Bulls from mating to maintain a healthy herd. the old Bull may have underlying health issues that cannot be reversed. there are many factors , he also could be breaking through the perimeter and damaging homes in villages outside the Game Reserve.
I can tell that elephants are not used to being hunted. Everytime they see people with guns their first reaction is to imtimidate not run away.
That guy that talked first, looks like Ned Flanders from the Simpsons cartoon.🤣🤣😂😂
"Gun's are ranged weapons they said"
These short ranged fellas:
Best aim evar - 🤠💥🐘
Ong
Shame on humanity
shame on you
Shudupj€vv
You're alive and have access to the shit you have because of people like this. you also support it everyday. Shame on being a hypocrite.
Yo who gave this dude oxygen?
I have a feeling that elephant knew what was going to happen and he couldn’t do anything but walk forward and accept whatever it was the humans were about to do
is it much of a hunt if you fly in on a helicopter, round it up, step off with a high powered rifle, and shoot it? Or is that for sport? Obviously there's sport hunting yes, but where's the hunt in flying in and just shooting it?
I understand the first part about the helicopter, but elephants are very large and dangerous game. there is a reason there is a whole class of firearms called elephant rifles. they were designed to have the penetration and power to have more of an effect than a bee sting on the elephants. Elephant rifles have been around have been around since the 1700s and the ones these hunters used are not even the largest
so people that drive their cars to go fishing would be nonsporting? riding an atv to a hunting location nonsporting? taking a flight from the east coast to the west coast to hunt nonsporting? 😄
@@Deadeye-lc8cb I only partly get the critique of flying in on a helicopter, though. Yes, its not hte same story as some 19th century british gentry braving the savannah for weeks on horseback for weeks, but the helicopter wasn't really a part of the hunt, it was how he got to the base camp for the hunt. The hunt was actually on foot.
It's completely legal
I'm impressed by how they collaborate with farmers and authorities to mitigate wildlife impacts.
I thought they were an endangered species.
Depends what part of Africa I guess. But this hunt here is actually a part of the conservation effort for elephants and rhinos. They only do select hunts and all the money goes back into conservation and anti poaching efforts. Pretty sure it's working quite well too.
@@matt7561 this is just simply untrue. I'd advise you do a bit of research before you say things.
They are, but due to climate change and racism, they congregate in and overpopulate certain areas, necessitating their culling.
Source?
@@mememachine2013 and you actually believe this? 🤔 🤣🤣 you’re too innocent .
6:27 Points an unopened rifle at his buds. I don't care if he thinks he unloaded or not, that's terrible firearms safety, there. 👎👎
Treat firearms as if it was loaded
Why are you doing it?
Because animals don't have the same value as humans.
@@TheSignofJonah777could you define what animal values are ?
@@dylStar00989 We should treat them well but not to a human degree. We still have dominion over them. Dogs are used for hunting cats for mice and other animals for transportation for us as well as food. It only has value to the degree it gives it to us.
And in this case the elephant is legally a pest.
@@TheSignofJonah777fact
Secondly what the f*** are they going to do with it?
Naw, this isn’t hunting. This is people stroking their ego.
Stfu 😂 clearly you don't know shit
This is hunting.
@ you’re apart of the problem.
@@MiMute no, you
@ utterly childish. plus you’re just another rage bait. go waste mommies time instead of mine. people like you need to stay away from the orange vests🗣️ (condolences if she’s passed😮💨 but that’s a giving seeming as how you consider murdering creatures who aren’t even invasive “hunting”)
I know your wife bored
Ooga booga, nick. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
What do you do with a dead elephant?
One bite at a time? Word spreads pretty soon a whole village sized crew shows up with buckets and baskets and takes away all the meat they can carry. Kind of like that scene with the airplane in lord of war. I've also read accounts of villagers following the hunting parties to get first dibs.
What u get from this
meat and employment for the locals...and a reason to keep the elephants around rather than letting poachers eliminate the herds--which is what they've done across Africa where hunting has been banned.
TO MANY ASSHOLES HUNTERS IN THIS PLANET
@@garywatson9917 Shame you have no idea what you're talking about but continue to post nonsense. I derive no funds from these hunts...in fact, I pay for the privilege to be there. What has been your contribution to conservation?
@@garywatson9917 from The NY Times: The United States Fish and Wildlife Service last month moved to allow hunters to bring home trophies from elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Safe to say, few conservationists saw it coming.
In a 39-page report, the agency cited Zimbabwe’s progress in creating a sound management plan for its 82,000 elephants and evidence that hunting revenue is in fact reinvested into conservation. Well-managed trophy hunting “would not have an adverse effect on the species, but can further efforts to conserve the species in the wild,” the agency concluded.
Humans can hunt animals but why can't animals hunt human?? 😅😂
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT KARMA!
I hope all these cowards have loved ones who are hurt by animals
Dtruth. You know what they say about mindless people like you...
It isn't real
What had the elephant done that its life had to end with human pleasure?
The weight ratio is grown man vs an 10lb chihuahua
Uhhhhh its more like 400 pound man vs 4 pound rat
what was the caliber?
Prob 470
I know most of the comments are quite negative but and however remember that the population of elephants in bots is simply out of control the elephants are very destructive creatures by nature and there simply needs to be a way to control the situation so to bring in large amounts of money from trophy hunters and keep an uncontrolled population down, as well as protecting the local ecosystems for all animals in the long run is a win win in my book
Sure
A proper end for a noble creature
Proper end??? being murdered by a gutless coward
@@1362pcOr you know we could let it be eaten alive, suffering a long painful death. Since wild animals rarely go out due to old age, it’s due to not being in their prime and eventually succumbing to an attack by other predators. Education is free, however you have to set aside your feelings big boy you got this 😅
That’s not to mention the fact that the area they’re also in has an elephant overpopulation issue, which wrecks havoc on the locals.. though you’re too in your feelings to even ponder different perspectives.
@@Aqotics
Disgusting pretend humanitarian. Have you ever seen an elephant die in the wild to know what that's like?
@@Aqotics Education is free so go get some education dumbass.
@@1362pcyou would never have the balls to get that close to it, you're projecting when you call them gutless cowards.
This man just headshot a elephant
You really "hunted" him well
as soon as the huge poaching problems of elephants is solved - then hunters should hunt elephants - not before - the only exception should be a rogue elephant that has caused problems to villagers or other elephants - and this comes from a dedicated hunter who has hunted africa twice and will go again this june
Sick absolutely sick there magnificent animals 😢
I thought that elephants were going extinct in the wild? I heard that they had only about 20 years left!
'They are' is shortened to 'they're' not 'there'.
then let one destroy your house
@@josephinetracy1485they're not endangered in the country they filmed this
Like walking up to your pet and taking a shot. Ridiculous. I guess rich people still need to get pats on the back too. Ugh.
Tf are u killing these elephants for
How they’re cruel, heartless mans
Cry about it
This is just sick...
sick as in awesome
5:15 elephant: hey broskies..pow!!!!!
This doesn't feel too right
I understand both ways
Monstre
Quien el animal 🦍 o el elefante 🐘❓
Nhìn trông nó thân thiện với con người. Tôi không nỡ nổ súng tội nghiệp chú voi quá
Tôi ủng hộ săn bắn và ủng hộ mục đích giúp đỡ người dân địa phương và duy trì mức độ bền vững để tránh dân số quá đông. Nhưng ngay cả khi đó, tôi vẫn đau lòng khi chứng kiến một sinh vật điềm tĩnh và uy nghiêm như vậy bị giết khi nhìn chúng với vẻ tò mò.
Not me
@@asatopaz2079 human also overpopulating, someone needs to reduce by using nuke, is it OK now mf :)
In one of Peter Capstick's books, he tells the story of an 1900's ivory hunter than used a 6mm rifle, and would shoot the elephants right behind the ear and they dropped instantly.
Bet they got extremely small pencils 😢
Why are you projecting your own problems?
Be ashamed!
Why?
It’s poaching, that’s why!
@@beaureynolds4480 It's not poaching. Poaching is the illegal killing of an animal, for fun or for the trophy. This hunt was completely legal. The country these people are hunting in (Botswana) has an extreme over population problem with elephants, causing problems for the villages like, elephants stomping through them and destroying them, killing the villagers, destroying the villagers crops, etc. After this elephant is killed , the meat gets donated to local villages, the tusks go home with the hunter and the money spent on the hunt goes to conservation efforts.
That African guy can’t watch it and he just went off
People, get off your soap boxes. The fact of the matter is nothing on this animal will go to waste, not even the teeth. And these animals are NOT as threatened as people think. These hunters pay literally 50 grand each to hunt and thats a MINIMUM. where does that money go? Towards the ranger services that go out in the bush armed to the teeth to hunt poachers. THAT'S what they mean by conservation and yes thats exactly what it does. There are over 150,000 elements just in botswana! Not even counting for other places like Kenya where its completely illegal to hunt ANYTHING.
So many elements..
So, if you are rich, you can do what cash-strapped poachers do illegally, which could cost them their lives for enough money. Is that what you are saying?
@ajaxada5786 what poachers do is OVER hunt. There's a reason why hunters pay so much money. It's because the money spent by legal hunters goes directly towards conservation. Usually directly towards the training and arming of anti poaching squads. You've clearly never been hunting nor do you know much of anything in regards to the subject.
That literally makes no sense
@@dunkers5672 of course it doesn't. Because you're not a hunter NOR do you know anything about hunting. So don't say shit about things ya don't flippin know about. The money hunters spend to hunt goes DIRECTLY towards the protection of all these species. Basically a police force that enforces hunting rules, regulations and laws. Does it make more sense now?
Dude is the ultimate hype man
Absolutely uncalled for
No puedo creer que se rían después de asesinar a ese grandioso animal😢😢😢
Of course they would. That's the kind of people they are.
Bullshit. We must stop trophy hunting in Africa
Thank you
Thanx
That's BS
elephant is very good ANIMAL WHY YOU KILLED :((
@@jeanjalbert2402 same happens when some one do same to you rascal .. they are sacred animals bro
because there is way too many
Fr Ganapati is Elephant head
A bit rich to use the term “harvested” like all he did was pull a potato out of the dirt…These folks are a disgrace all for money and trophies
Why did he have to die
So the man can have fun
They have to pay 10 000 $ to shoot an elephant-this was murder for hire!
hunting isnt murder. thats a human on human thing but stay mad i guess
@@Castigar48 According to your definition murder is also hunting, if you kill someone its hunting then? 😂
@@westernspykolya no thats murder ya dork
Why?
man...why you gotta shoot a damn elephant.
Disgusting.
“I HATE HARMLESS/FUN ACTIVITIES!” - everyone in the comments
>poaching
>harmless
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
for real
@@Nordisk11that's not poaching
For those wondering on “why” they did this. It’s a conservation hunt. For starters, most likely that big old male was infertile and wasn’t contributing to the population anymore, while also challenging younger fertile males for females… overtime this causes population damage and will end up decreasing the elephant population. Secondly a very little amount of the meat actually goes to the hunters, but stays in Africa and feeds tribes. Thirdly, A large amount of the money goes to conservation for the animals hunted, and other species in Africa (For example the Giraffe population in Africa has gone up by 20% since 2015 due to a lot of funds from conservation hunts). I would like to also point out, if these guys were inhumane killers and poachers they wouldn’t have taken the time to have a humane kill.
Please stop parroting that lie. You might have read it on other comments, but it's not true.
Talk about mid life crisis
5:08 don't waste your time jst click to the part
Poor animal.
No one should be allowed to hunt elephants today except for indigenous tribes.
They do lots of native africans do with rifles.
Who do you think manages the hunting in Africa snowflake? The permits are sold by Africans and the hunting benefits Africans in ways you obviously have no clue about.
Nope
Mf tribes kill elephants without any control, U should've said except lions
Poor Elephant, it was literally grazing and not harming nobody and these guys just creep behind and bush and shoot it.
cruelty, This is not hunting..
Absolutely pathetic
you are
@@Mi56-u7h We shoot the most magnificent creature on earth dead..... but at the same time we protect the lowest creature on earth.... dogs!
@josephinetracy1485 the elephants cause a lot of trouble to the villagers, they're not endangered in Botswana and the elephant was probably too old to mate so it wasn't that bad
I agree that dogs are way too protected.
this is sad.....
Subjective
What, you get a peek in the mirror again?
See countries with elephants have too many elephants now and a lot of countries do not want them when offered because of damages to crops and the world expects the countries with elephants to just be a sanctuary for them. You must control the population.
This is plain murder in cold blood. How can you be so inhuman?
Ikr these are conscious creatures
This is EVIL, not justifiable at all 😕
boo hoo
White people
Oh shut up
Your name is adam, what are you? Lmfao
This is pathetic.
Which type of gun did they use