Prof Adam Hart 🦏

@1221triciafln Many do this for trophy hunting... most dont for tourism So...yeah...

@AdamHartScience Maybe African governments could make it a requirement in law for travel companies to adopt the Nawiri business model as it clearly is working. What a forward step against trophy hunting!

New book chapter alert! I explore the economics and future of trophy hunting in a new book critically examining the economics of animals. Open access - links in the link below glos.ac.uk/content/uog-wi…

@1221triciafln It works for them. But that is a drop in the ocean

@AdamHartScience Would you say Nawiri are making a good start though? They appear to be genuine rather than conservation washing. Is this seriously a way forward?

@1221triciafln A cpuple of case studies sadly don't tell the whole story How many luxury lodges are owned by european/us companies & pay nothing to conservation? How much damage is done by huge footfall, poor guiding and vehicles? The cost of tourism is huge & money rarely gets where it should

@AdamHartScience Do you think this is the best way to support wildlife and conservation? Seems the tourist industry is doing good things forbes.com/sites/emesemac…

@d_penrose @CWitvrouwen @friendofthefox Even if that were true it would be a hell of a lot better than the distribution of money from photo tourism

@CWitvrouwen @friendofthefox Typical 🐂💩! The money ends in the pockets of a few high up locals!!

Funny how the same few voices always appear when trophy hunting is questioned. Not consensus. Just repetition. Tiny economic returns. Real ecological damage. And a constant " there’s no alternative" story. Killing wildlife for sport is not conservation.

@ohhanxiety I would if that is where they're aiming

Would you support a worldwide ban on trophy hunting

@CWitvrouwen AI tweets now?

Every time trophy hunting is challenged, the same small circle shows up to defend it. That’s not science it's a pattern. Low returns. Real ecological cost. Constant reframing. Killing wildlife for sport isn’t conservation. It’s just dressed-up extraction

@Bufftontuffton3 I've offered many times to email you with these articles...and I post them here.

@AdamHartScience If you ever come up with something that shows me to be wrong, please get in touch

@Bufftontuffton3 Wouldn't want to read anything that showed you to be wrong...

@AdamHartScience Let me take a guess at its content, well, well, you support trophy hunting! Reluctantly, for conservation, in certain cases, on days with a y in them, you also wish to derail the trophy hunting import ban in the UK. No I'll give it a miss

@Bufftontuffton3 Maybe read it eh?

@AdamHartScience By explore he means support trophy hunting because he is lobbyist for the trophy hunting industry

Great to have this letter out in tomorrow's Guardian - in reply to rampant misinformation from Ban Trophy Hunting. With @AmyDickman4 @DanChallender @dilysroe theguardian.com/environment/20…

@Bufftontuffton3 Let me just check my giveashitometer Yeah.. Needle not moving

@AdamHartScience So you won't say, or you're making it up, I'm gonna go with making it up

After 12+ yrs as Prof of Science Communication at @uniofglos I’ve updated my title to Prof of Conservation Ecology. My work has increasingly focused on conservation science (especially in southern Africa), so this better reflects what I do day to day, & where my research sits.

@Bufftontuffton3 You don't read what I write or listen to what I say... they do. Ironic really

@AdamHartScience What is the hunting industry annoyed at you for

@RosemaryStewar1 If they read it they'd realise it is a piece that is quite critical of hunting as it stands. But they won't read it

@AdamHartScience I do hope that your readers appreciate your stance and don’t dismiss your experience and views through prejudiced eyes. So many respond with knee-jerk reactions without ever having been in the wild themselves to experience the challenges, or the wonder of the bush.

@Bufftontuffton3 Quite the outburst I'm not part of any industry. In fact the hunting industry is rather annoyed with me a few colleagues atm... I'm a professor of Conservation Ecology. I'm not masquerading as anything 🤣

@AdamHartScience Because you have obstructed them, and are part of an industry designed to promote and keep trophy hunting, masquerading as a conservation account, that's why, you prostitute your profession whilst reading from a script,

@Bufftontuffton3 Why do you suppose that 10.years of pushing bans have only resulted in wasting parliamentary time? You think there is some great funded conspiracy holding it back. The reality is that sensible people are considering the evidence.

@AdamHartScience Not when they tell you what advice they want, before you give it.

@Bufftontuffton3 This doesnt make.sense even allowing for you

@AdamHartScience So you want it to be legal, so it doesn't upset the consciences of trophy Hunters? I think you're fairly safe on that one Adam.

@Bufftontuffton3 Advising MPs when they ask for advice is not obstruction Buffs. It is how good governance operates.

@AdamHartScience Unlikely is a bit kind of vague for a scientist, and if it is "unlikely" why do you put so much effort in obstructing the trophy hunting import bill.

@Bufftontuffton3 But once again you actually miss the point. Regulated hunting benefits conservation - it has to demonstrate that for trophies to be legally imported under non detriment findings. We already have legislation and it benefits conservation. Bans won't

@Bufftontuffton3 Unlikely tbh. Eduardo Goncalves has a track record of misreporting CITES - we discuss it at length in the book actually.