A force for good

When I first moved to the UK from South Africa, I stuck some of my favourite photographs on the wall of my halls of residence bedroom to serve as reminders of the life I’d left behind. One of those photographs happened to be of a close friend and me with a dead Cape buffalo that an American client had hunted on safari with us. Looking back now, I can see just how naive I was.

But that photograph was a reminder of some of the incredible experiences I’d had on safari, and of a very memorable hunt that had ended in success. I knew how much of a contributor to wildlife conservation regulated big game hunting is. And of all the wildlife conservationists I’d met and idolised growing up in southern Africa, most of them were pro-hunting, or recognised that hunting could be a force for good.

Even the