https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwUyqXwobMo
BTW....Here is my post if you cannot find it in the comments:
Please everyone let me explain something; those of you who are expressing negative feelings toward hunting are missing the point. By far, the greatest threat to wildlife around the world is loss of habitat. This comes in many forms, from population pressures and over-development to simple neglect. But it all steams from one simple thing, a loss of connection to the natural world.
All hunter-gatherers had a spiritual connection to the natural world that most people today do not understand. But it is still in our subconscious mind – and many of us yearn for it in our own ways. As an active hunter and fisherman, I can truly say understand that feeling of "connectedness" to nature. I've been in the outdoors my whole life. I am an active spelunker, backpacker and hiker, and I chose professions that keep me outside often (professional geoscientist and professional land surveyor). I am also an active and ethical sport hunter.
I remember being very young when I was carried along on my families many outdoor excursions. Proper ethics were taught at an early age, and those lessons stayed with me to this day. As my passion began to grow, the natural world became one of the most valuable things in my life, and that included my pursuit of fish and game. I inserted value into it because I loved and developed a true passion for it, and with that passion eventually came the feeling of responsibility as a guardian of nature.
Nature has no morality associated with it because it is simply about survival; it is something that just IS. Hunting is a basic driving force of the evolutionary process. We humans have the ability to inject our un-natural feeling into it in one way or another. Silly ideology is a threat when it seeks to separate humans further than they already are from the natural world. My greatest fear is that so many people are becoming addicted to electronic media that love a nature is dying in them and it is only a concept, a thing they see on TV or view on a You Tube Channel, but have no real experience with it.
The world needs more involvement of humans in nature, not less if we are to duplicate the conservation and restoration successes we have had in North America in other places. The Xs & Os of the dollars and time spent on conservation by hunters are very well documented so I will not cover them again today. This is simply and attempt to show some of you who probably spend little time outside there is another side to the argument.
All hunter-gatherers had a spiritual connection to the natural world that most people today do not understand. But it is still in our subconscious mind – and many of us yearn for it in our own ways. As an active hunter and fisherman, I can truly say understand that feeling of "connectedness" to nature. I've been in the outdoors my whole life. I am an active spelunker, backpacker and hiker, and I chose professions that keep me outside often (professional geoscientist and professional land surveyor). I am also an active and ethical sport hunter.
I remember being very young when I was carried along on my families many outdoor excursions. Proper ethics were taught at an early age, and those lessons stayed with me to this day. As my passion began to grow, the natural world became one of the most valuable things in my life, and that included my pursuit of fish and game. I inserted value into it because I loved and developed a true passion for it, and with that passion eventually came the feeling of responsibility as a guardian of nature.
Nature has no morality associated with it because it is simply about survival; it is something that just IS. Hunting is a basic driving force of the evolutionary process. We humans have the ability to inject our un-natural feeling into it in one way or another. Silly ideology is a threat when it seeks to separate humans further than they already are from the natural world. My greatest fear is that so many people are becoming addicted to electronic media that love a nature is dying in them and it is only a concept, a thing they see on TV or view on a You Tube Channel, but have no real experience with it.
The world needs more involvement of humans in nature, not less if we are to duplicate the conservation and restoration successes we have had in North America in other places. The Xs & Os of the dollars and time spent on conservation by hunters are very well documented so I will not cover them again today. This is simply and attempt to show some of you who probably spend little time outside there is another side to the argument.
