While protecting wild animals is a nice initiative, that guy points fingers at foreign lands, and yet he and his own family are involved in the casual hunting and slaughter of birds, deer, board and other wild animals and actively support fox shooting.

in certain western countries, at certain times, in certain regions and under certain conditions, hunting is a good thing. It keeps populations of e.g. fox under control. It's also the only viable excuse Americans still have for owning a gun (but not an assault rifle).

Not the best representative for the UK lol

Americans hunt Americans, thus we need assault rifles. They're semiautomatic anyways, meaning you can only kill a couple of hundred humans in an hour or maybe two or three elephants, though those are harder to find, so shooting Americans is easier.

Oh, I forgot. Don't eat shark fin soup or buy ivory or tiger bone viagra or pangolin meat. Mostly stop eating shark fin though. I sound like Gompo.

Are you saying that it's difficult to distinguish between elephants and Americans in a crowded area?

I have nothing against shooting foxes. It is a far more humane form of pest control that hunting with dogs, or poisoning.

Elephants and Americans: shoot at the one making most noise.

not the best representative redjon, but not the worst either

Positive comment: Good on him. I hope he can make a difference. :-) It's a shame the wild elephant population is dwindling in China, and I hope something can be done. I'm glad there's a park to protect them.

I thought I'd read that Xishuangbanna is the only native elephant land where populations are actually growing, due to China's protection measures - not true anymore?

True, but they are taking everyone else's. Perhaps a new spin on nimbyism.

Don't understand 'taking everyone else's' or nimbyism, maybe something I don't know about?

Taking everyone else's ivory, but protecting ones own.
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard.

I like xiaococo's comment. Cause his mom did a lot of good things too.

@bluppfisk. Pretty sure South African elephant populations grow too. They have to cull them every so often.

what a title! royal highness, duke, earl, knight, baron. good gig if you can get it.

Good gig but comes with a lot of responsibility, and as heir he has to mostly keep his opinions to himself. Limited freedom of speech. There are also a lot of royal engagements.

Now Fuerdi, that is a good gig. And there is no shortage of them.

@Yankee, they don't shoot foxes anymore. That practice has been banned since 2005.

As far as I am aware, shooting foxes was never banned.

In 2005 following severe pressure from animal rights campaigners fox hunting was made illegal in England and Wales by the creation of the Hunting Act 2005.

I think it now depends on the number of dogs that are accompanying you. But shooting foxes is still not banned.

Is it still allowed on Boxing Day?

His own family still seems to have their ivory, skins and horns collection on display in their country house:

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i love animals. especially their heads.

The Hunting Act 2004 is nothing to do with hunting with guns.
It is about hunting mammals with dogs. Hunting with dogs means that the dogs chase the hunted animal until either it escapes, or the pack of dogs catches it and kills it. If you have ever seen pack animals kill prey, you will understand why the law was passed.

The law has nothing to do with protecting foxes. Foxes, rabbits, deer, and some other mammals' populations need to be controlled. Shooting is a more humane way of killing them.

True enough statement Haali, I couldn't stop counting the amount of worst public representatives lol