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Rich people hunt polar bears and don't let netizens criticize blood and cruelty.

Can rich people do whatever they want with money? Recently, the rise of overseas adventure groups of mainland rich people has also caused controversy. It costs nearly 80,000 yuan to kill a black bear in Canada, and only 500,000 yuan to kill a polar bear. Some hunting tours even offer all-inclusive packages for five kinds of prey in South Africa: zebra, warthog, pronghorn, wildebeest and stone antelope. This group of mainland tycoons even made movies and photos of hunting behavior and posted them online, which triggered protests from many netizens and environmentalists. Some criticized the hunter for being bloody and did not support such cruel behavior; However, some operators responded that there is a traditional hunting culture, which will educate hunters to learn hunting culture, including learning to protect animals.

"I love hunting club" launched "Canada 14-day polar bear hunting group" with luxurious accommodation. (Photo/excerpt from "I Love Hunting Club" official website) As long as you enter "Hunting Tour Group" in the search engine, you can find a series of itineraries on mainland websites. Take "Canada 14 Day Polar Bear Hunting Group" launched by Beijing "I Love Hunting Club" as an example. The most expensive trip is nearly 500,000 RMB, and the tour fee includes air tickets, transportation, hunting equipment and camping. The fee also includes a male polar bear, that is, the right to kill a male polar bear and take it away. After arriving at the destination, participants need to attend local safety training courses to learn shooting. Usually, they can go hunting after training for a few hours, but they must go hunting with local hunters. At the same time, "What kind of animals can fight? How many can I shoot? There will be strict regulations in the industry. But the tour fee does not include the cost of making specimens and transporting them back to China. Participants usually make specimens of their prey and transport them back to China.

Hunting tours are spread all over Africa, America, South America, Europe, Australia, even Mongolia and Russia, including wildlife hunting, bird hunting and fish hunting. Some hunting groups also advertise that all five kinds of prey are included, "South Africa 10 day all five kinds of prey, including zebra, warthog and pronghorn". It means that animals running on land and animals swimming in water are arranged at one time.

In ancient Chinese and western societies, the royal nobles were good at hunting and regarded it as a noble activity. In the folk, human beings hunt wild animals to meet the basic needs of life, because the tools are primitive and generally do not cause excessive hunting; Modern people have powerful tools such as gunpowder and shotgun, and the hunting efficiency has undergone revolutionary changes. Many animal populations are decreasing or even becoming extinct. Because of this, after entering the mid-20th century, in western countries, people gradually realized the consequences of their actions and put forward the slogan of "protecting and rationally utilizing wildlife resources". It even led to the later wave of sports hunting. This concept comes from "as long as it is used reasonably, wildlife resources can be used permanently." 」

Supporters of sports hunting believe that this behavior has an effect on controlling the number of wild animals. In the United States, hunters strictly follow the principle of "beating the male but not the female, beating the old and not beating the young", which can make top carnivores control herbivores, which is beneficial to population health and can also reduce their conflicts with humans. Sports hunting can promote the protection of wild animals as long as it is properly managed. However, some conservation experts believe that if hunters are curious and greedy for blood just to find and satisfy their own desires, then they can't learn to protect animals and nature from hunting.