rkzenrage

A well kept secret among the Green community is that hunters are environmentalist and the ones with the deepest pockets when it comes to paying for pristine land, so when a State and a Green org. go head to head the Green goes to the local Duck, Moose, Deer, etc, hunters orgs for the jack for the land and for long term contracts and terms for the management of the land. The hunters, in turn, keep quiet about where the money came from.
This has been going on for hundreds of years. There are more white tailed deer in the US now than there were when Columbus landed... we need hunters for population control. Land owners and the States cannot do it.
Not only is there nothing wrong with culling, it has to be done.
Also, it is better for you &, IMO, tastes a hell of a lot better.
If you eat meat, wear leather, use glue, have it in your car or anywhere else, something dies... it does not matter what.
End of story.

Poachers, on the other-hand are criminals and need to be treated as such, at all times. They are discharging firearms... the crime needs to be treated with the weight of that in mind.
In Africa they are shot on sight.
I do not think it needs to be that steep, but very steep.
On our ranch, if they did not drop their weapons as soon as we told them to we did shoot at them. Poachers tend to shoot instead of giving-up.
They are scum that destroy the breeding cycles of animals, they care nothing for the environment.