Public land which is leased to individuals does not give the right to trespass on said land, to third parties, RTO or no RTO. Not all trappers who are licensed had there own trapping grounds.
If the public land occupied by trappers was illegally owned, then it was already open to the public, especially the mentioned Imnajdra area. The public did not gain anything.
I am not a trapper, but cannot understand why trapping is now illegal while hunting remains legal. I would have preferred it to be the other way round. Trappers don’t kill birds, and do not trespass on the property of others, and they are not noisy. Hunters are a danger to other people in their vicinity when they shoot at birds (especially quail).
I think trappers who are licensed should be left to practice their hobby, and no new licenses for trapping should be issued. Hunters should have their hunting license ‘bonded’ to a fixed hunting area for which they have a title.
As a landowner, can I object to hunters in my area who shower me with lead shot when they shoot their guns? When a hunter shoots, one has to be careful not to look upwards towards the sky, because a lead pellet can blind a person (lead shot will fall at the same speed it went out of the shotgun). Is lead damaging our soil?
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