Comedian's views land him in hot water
Trevor Noah's take on hunting enrages southern African countries.
South African comedian Trevor Noah last week suggested on his United States late-night news satire television programme, The Daily Show, that wildlife hunting should be banned in southern Africa because it only brings as little as 3% benefits to the region's hunting communities.
Most of the wildlife-rich southern African countries, including poor rural communities from his home country South Africa, whose livelihoods depend on hunting wildlife revenue, reacted with disappointment and dismissed Trevor Noah's claim that rural community hunting benefits were insufficient in the region as a pack of lies aimed at pleasing his Western paymasters who want to impose their anti-hunting values on Africa.
Known for helping the needy in his home country, Noah's anti-hunting talk has now alienated him with South Africa's wildlife economy dependent poor rural communities of Makuya Reserve in Limpopo Province, next to Kruger National Park.They said that if Noah's lies go uncorrected they could harm the hunting industry that is bringing them 100% benefits, and not the 3% of the benefits that Noah claimed they are receiving.
Elsewhere, Botswana's environment minister Onkokame Mokaila, together with Namibia's Pohamba Shifeta and their Zimbabwean counterpart, along with the Botswana Wildlife Producers Association (BWPA), the Zimbabwe Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) and SADC hunting rural communities dismissed Noah's 3% earnings allegations as false information fed on him by his anti-hunting Western paymasters.“We refute your allegation that about only 3% from trophy hunting could be benefiting communities. I would like to invite Noah to Botswana to see first-hand how our communities are receiving meaningful benefits from wildlife trophy hunting.
”He will also personally talk to Batswana in rural communities who are benefiting from hunting, and who can confirm that they are receiving life-changing socio-economic benefits from wildlife,” said Mokaila.
Namibian environment minsiter Pohamba Shifeta said that Noah's assumptions have no basis and are devoid of any truth. Therefore, he denounced and condemned Noah's misinformed views that trophy hunting in Africa is a smokescreen for corrupt practices taking place at the expense of rural people.
”Contrary to Noah's allegation that only 3% of hunting revenue is paid to southern African rural communities, rural conservancies in Namibia are receiving 80% of the funds generated from trophy hunting.
“The other funds are paid into a game trust fund for general wildlife management including funding for human wildlife conflict interventions and mitigation,” said Shifeta.
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Most of the wildlife-rich southern African countries, including poor rural communities from his home country South Africa, whose livelihoods depend on hunting wildlife revenue, reacted with disappointment and dismissed Trevor Noah's claim that rural community hunting benefits were insufficient in the region as a pack of lies aimed at pleasing his Western paymasters who want to impose their anti-hunting values on Africa.
Known for helping the needy in his home country, Noah's anti-hunting talk has now alienated him with South Africa's wildlife economy dependent poor rural communities of Makuya Reserve in Limpopo Province, next to Kruger National Park.They said that if Noah's lies go uncorrected they could harm the hunting industry that is bringing them 100% benefits, and not the 3% of the benefits that Noah claimed they are receiving.
Elsewhere, Botswana's environment minister Onkokame Mokaila, together with Namibia's Pohamba Shifeta and their Zimbabwean counterpart, along with the Botswana Wildlife Producers Association (BWPA), the Zimbabwe Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) and SADC hunting rural communities dismissed Noah's 3% earnings allegations as false information fed on him by his anti-hunting Western paymasters.“We refute your allegation that about only 3% from trophy hunting could be benefiting communities. I would like to invite Noah to Botswana to see first-hand how our communities are receiving meaningful benefits from wildlife trophy hunting.
”He will also personally talk to Batswana in rural communities who are benefiting from hunting, and who can confirm that they are receiving life-changing socio-economic benefits from wildlife,” said Mokaila.
Namibian environment minsiter Pohamba Shifeta said that Noah's assumptions have no basis and are devoid of any truth. Therefore, he denounced and condemned Noah's misinformed views that trophy hunting in Africa is a smokescreen for corrupt practices taking place at the expense of rural people.
”Contrary to Noah's allegation that only 3% of hunting revenue is paid to southern African rural communities, rural conservancies in Namibia are receiving 80% of the funds generated from trophy hunting.
“The other funds are paid into a game trust fund for general wildlife management including funding for human wildlife conflict interventions and mitigation,” said Shifeta.
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