Steven Rinella
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And there's poverty there.
How they can protect habitat is by declaring these areas hunt areas.
And they put a fee to the animals.
And they hold a bid process.
There's a bid process where a hunting organization needs to go to the government.
And these contracts renew.
I can't remember.
I think maybe a contract's good for 10 years.
You come in and you're like, we will pay you, Tanzania, blank dollars to have access to this parcel land to hunt it.
So there's revenue for them.
Then they come and they have their biologists come out and do a survey of what's there.
And there's like, you guys are allowed to kill whatever.
I'm just going to throw out random numbers that aren't true, but let's say you're allowed five Cape buffalo, you're allowed 30 topi, whatever the hell it is.
They'll come out with a list.
And they'll say that you are obligated to buy 40% of that wildlife from us, the operator.
So then when you get an animal, your, what they call a trophy fee, your fee just goes to Tanzania.
That trophy fee does.
And so they're able to draw revenue from undeveloped lands.
The biggest risk they have is slash and burn agriculture.