India, Sept. 28 -- *Texan ranch trader and millionaire Asher Watkins (52) faced a black karma. Watkins had travelled the world for decades hunting in hundreds but, finally, he couldn't take a bull by the horns. A Cape buffalo gored Watkins through ribs and stomach while he was on a $10,000 safari in the South African bush of Limpopo province last month. The death sparked a global debate on trophy hunting, one that has in the past embroiled US President Donald Trump and his hunter sons.

The Trump hunting lobby is dominant. It cites legality, economics and wildlife conservation to justify the regulated industry: culling, preventing wild lands from diversion to cash crops and ploughing hunting fees into local communities and species preserv...