Isn't a Little Twisted...

Why? Selective, controlled hunting can even benefit conservation-see the example of Mountain Nyalas or certain Argali projects.
 
Selective, controlled hunting isn't the issue. I won't disagree with you about it. However, ads for videos on hunting just to get your jollies on this site seems a little strange. I'm sure the dudes in the how-to video aren't hunting with views of conservation.
 
Sorry, you lost me there; can't spot any hunting ads at the mainpage. You're sure we're both referring to the same site-www.zoochat.com ?
 
I think the adverts tend to be contextual and also depend on where you live, so we each may be seeing different ones.

I wasn't aware of the case of the mountain nyalas, or indeed the extent of this sort of hunting.

Hunting Mountain Nyala in Africa and Mountain Nyala Safaris in Africa

If done sustainably then I can see how it may help to provide an income to the local people and actually protect the animals and their environment. It is such a rare species however (only kept outside Ethiopia once, in Berlin Zoo in 1930s) that if it going to be hunted then surely it is justifiable to establish an ex situ population?
 
@Pygathrix: As far as I know, Ethopian authorities can react rather stubbornly when it comes to their native wildlife; I heard of several Saudi Arabian sheiks offering a lot of money for some live Mountain Nyalas but they were turned down (whether they got some animals illegally, is another matter...). However, some rare Ethopian animals have even already entered the exotic pet trade...
YouTube - Bitis parviocula first feeding
 
The best way to protect wildlife is to make them valuable to the people who live with them. In many countries in Africa this has been proven by wildlife numbers climbing in countries with controlled safari hunting compared to those without legal hunting who have plummeting numbers and habit destruction.
 
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