It doesn’t matter whether you’re from the city or the country. By the time we grow into adults, we’re expected to have a certain degree of reverence for nature, for wildlife, and for the environment.

No matter how much reverence you have, we also have to acknowledge some truths. In 2018, people around the world still hunt. Many hunt because they are psychopaths; but many people also hunt for subsistence.

If Hunting Is Killing, Poaching Is Biocide

We get that many environmentalists are repulsed by hunters, but our sense is that — other things being equal — even the most moralistic vegan will say that illegal hunting is far worse than so-called “legal” hunting.

Illegal hunting = poaching.

Global poaching trends are bad, and getting worse. Poachers have hunted entire animal species to extinction, and they continue to drive more species to extinction.

If big game trophy hunters are psychopaths, then poachers are biocidal maniacs. They’re not just killing, they are consciously destroying entire life forms.

This is why, as far as social causes go, “We must end poaching ASAP!” is as close to a universally shared value as humanity gets. Irrespective of politics, region, culture, and so on, it’s hard to find a sane person to consciously say, “Yeah, I’m fine with poaching.” It happens, but it’s rare.

Now that we’ve invented tools (data analytics, drone surveillance, CleanApp) that allow us to end poaching once and for all, it’s our job to assemble the off-the-shelf pieces into unified systems and to deploy them. ASAP.