ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 1月31日 22時03分

You may go to hell, and I will go to Texas’

Photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid for @ナショナルジオグラフィック

The scimitar oryx or scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), also known as the Sahara oryx, is a species of Oryx extinct in the wild since 2000; photographed in the back of a hunters truck at a hunting convention in Dallas, Texas. The scimitar oryx was once widespread in northern Africa. Its decline began as a result of climate change, and later it was hunted extensively for its horns. Today, it is bred in captivity in special reserves in Tunisia, Morocco and Senegal and on private exotic animal ranches in the Texas Hill Country. The scimitar oryx was domesticated in Ancient Egypt and is believed to have been used as food and sacrificed as offerings to gods. Wealthy people in Ancient Rome also bred them. The use of their valuable hides began in the Middle Ages. The unicorn myth may have originated from sightings of a scimitar oryx with a broken horn.
I've been working for a year now with @ナショナルジオグラフィック documenting trophy hunting in all its various forms. Hunters will always argue that hunting is a vital tool when conserving, and those against hunting strongly disagree with this statement. This work explores all the issues surrounding man's relationship with wildlife and its habitat. We continue to commodify at an alarming rate; the demands placed by us on wildlife are ever increasing, and inversely their habitat is very decreasing. We are rapidly reaching the point of no return. The mantra is now 'if it doesn't pay, it doesn't stay'. Over the next few months, up to publication of this work in the magazine, I'll be publishing more work from this project on @chancellordavid and on the @ナショナルジオグラフィック feed. I can't promise it'll be easy, but we need to be informed, knee jerk reactions can not be the basis of policy making. I’ll try and answer any comments as we go along. Whatever your opinions, the scimitar horned oryx is being reintroduced into africa where once it roamed free. That reintroduction is from herds bred in captivity in the US, and from money generated from hunters fee's. It was hunters who assisted in its demise, now its hunters who are assisting in its survival.

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