A Guardian podcast examines trophy hunting as a conservation-funding model — and the critics who see it as neocolonialism in a different guise.
One way to pay for wildlife conservation is to allow the rich to bag a few animals for high prices. But critics see this approach as an exercise in neocolonialism.
While Western conservationists debate the ethics of trophy hunting from their London studios, African communities who've lived alongside wildlife for millennia are building tech-enabled conservation models that don't require rich Europeans to kill elephants for validation. The real neocolonialism isn't just in the hunting. It's in the presumption that Africa's wildlife needs saving by outsiders rather than the innovation happening in Kenyan wildlife corridors, Botswanan community conservancies, and South African drone monitoring systems.
While Western conservationists debate the ethics of trophy hunting from their London studios, African communities who've lived alongside wildlife for millennia are building tech-enabled conservation models that don't require rich Europeans to kill elephants for validation. The real neocolonialism isn't just in the hunting. It's in the presumption that Africa's wildlife needs saving by outsiders rather than the innovation happening in Kenyan wildlife corridors, Botswanan community conservancies, and South African drone monitoring systems.
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