Innocence and guilt don't apply to animals, animals aren't moral actors. So that's not a relevant point imo.
Animals are a resource, and an obviously renewable resource at that. As such, people who hunt animals for any reason have a more vested interest in the conservation of that resource than anyone else. Whether it's for food or for sport, hunters don't want to see the animal population threatened. That incentive is crucial to the conservation of many species around the world.
Even taking elephants for example, to subsistence farmers in Africa elephants are just an extremely destructive pest, one they'd prefer to see eradicated completely because elephants destroying their crops can be a life-or-death situation. The interest and most especially money trophy hunters are motivated to provide to ensure elephant populations remain stable are crucial to prevent farmers from eradicating as many as possible. When trophy hunters are willing to pay thousands of dollars for an elephant tag, suddenly the elephants go from destructive pest to value resource, and local farmers can be compensated for the damage they do and incentivized to also work to protect the population.
Finally, trophy hunters almost by definition target mature males, which is a population segment that can be removed with almost no effect on the population.
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