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Context and perspective are everything. I've seen this image (I cannot find the original owner) posted on numerous social media accounts and the interpretations are enlightening... thread 1/6
Those who oppose trophy hunting present it as evidence of "sick hunters" but there is nothing to suggest trophy hunting. Multiple zebra are hanging from a frame clearly made to support bulk processing of meat. Does this look like any sort of TH photo you've ever seen? No. 2/6
Those who oppose foreign, and especially Chinese, intervention in Africa have framed this, without any corroborating evidence, as what "the Chinese" are doing right now in Hwnage National Park. But that is an entirely unfounded claim to support a view 3/6
What it looks like to me is a professional meat processing operation. We can't say much more from the image but zebra from private wildlife land in S. Africa are shot for meat entirely sustainably. If you've eaten Borwoors or biltong in SA then you may well have eaten zebra 4/6
But I also see the potential end point of a culling operation to remove bulk grazers from a fenced reserve to cope with drought. This is common and sound management practice. Zebra are often the first species to be thinned out to prevent mass die offs and conserve habitat. 5/6
The key point here is that without context all we see are dead zebra hanging up. That isn't a nice sight. Add that emotional response to a background agenda, and bingo - a baying mob. I don't know the context and I welcome info please. 6/6
