I share the same opinion as you. Wildlife Conservation is very close to my heart, in fact I even went to university to study it hoping that I can somehow be a part of saving wildlife in the future.
I absolutely hate animal poaching, however I often find myself thinking about the people that poach these animals, and wonder what their situations are. Most of the countries where this is happening are very poor and with many of their people living way below the poverty line, and so maybe this has something to do with the high levels of poaching? I have often wondered that if maybe more was done to help these countries overall, maybe poaching would go down?
Don't get me wrong I think poaching is terrible and absolutely wrong, and donating money to helping protect these animals is very important, but I just can't help but wonder if there was a way to prevent the poaching from happening in the first place.
However I do realise that is much easier said than done so in the meantime I guess protecting the animals more is all that can be done.
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