witch hunter

Limit hunting or keep humans away from animals?

In a number of pastoral tribes, it is customary that when a wild animal preys on a domestic animal, the young go out to look for the predatory individual and hunt it, the hunters are skilled to the extent that allows them to identify the predatory individual and moral to the extent that prevents them from harming any other individual.

In our environment, they have lost both skill and morality. That's why when bears that disappeared began to return to farm environments in Europe, "heroic" hunters came out and eliminated them, eliminating the bears and the possibility of a population that might have regenerated.

In the XNUMXs, the tiger population in the Judean Desert was a haven, the impression arose that the tiger population that was considered lost was regenerating and multiplying, unfortunately, females treated with cubs found an easy source of food in the settlements, "to avoid risk to the residents, to avoid excessive proximity between man and animal", the females were removed from the area. The effect was devastating and immediate, the cubs naturally died, in addition, removing females from the area changed the relationship of couples, a minority of females caused "infants to be killed" by males who were not the fathers, within a few years the population was damaged in a way that it is difficult to predict recovery.

In other words: external pressure - the people of the settlements - caused the mistaken activity of those who are supposed to protect the tigers, instead of providing food for the females, instead of helping the settlements to prevent the tigers from entering the territory of the settlement, instead of protecting the wild animals and fulfilling their role according to the law, the authority chose to exclude the wild animals from the equation.

I need a reference to shepherd tribes, bear hunting in Europe and memories from the past because of a current event:
The headlines screamed "a girl was attacked by a wolf", hysterical headlines and a panicked report by the family members was probably enough for the director of the "authority" to declare "open season" permission to hunt... who? what are you The announcements say that "the Authority's inspectors went out to look for the predatory wolf, shoot it and inspect it". Despite the words of one sane zoologist who explained that "it is very difficult to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog", despite the high probability that the predator is a dog that has "bragged", despite the doubts, the "season has opened"...

Currently known to the director of the Authority, it is possible to differentiate between a dog and a wolf based on the tracks, to differentiate requires a lot of experience and knowledge, experience and knowledge that few field inspectors have. So instead of starting a deep run after a hidden detail, perhaps it would have been right to take advantage of the (hidden) knowledge and try to identify the predator, even if the identification is not successful, the director of the Authority must remember his role. The definition of the job, among other things, is "protecting the wild animals" whoever manages to see in this line a hint, the permit, to exterminate a wolf... rehabilitation.

True, it is clear and well-known that the PA director's understanding of nature conservation is similar to my understanding of military strategy, but here there is no need for more than reading comprehension. His role enshrined in the law: to protect the wild animals, to keep, not to shoot. So if there are places where the proximity between a person and an animal is dangerous for a person? Joel the manager and will work to prevent proximity... fencing, prohibition signs, etc., Joel will prevent the presence of people near animals and not the other way around, because again he must remember, his role according to the law is: to keep and protect the wild animals.

The time has come that instead of controlling the environment for the sake of the human population, there will be control of the human population for the sake of the environment.