Is this more convincing? From the report

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF BOUNTIES IN VERTEBRATE PEST MANAGEMENT

"Bounty schemes have been utilized throughout the world as a financial incentive to induce control of pest species and hunting. However, most schemes have been condemned by their implementing agencies as a costly, misguided and ineffective tool for addressing pest problems. Fraud has become synonymous with all bounty systems with well documented evidence of widespread abuse by scheme participants. Such payments are often introduced in the absence of an adequate assessment of alternative solutions to a perceived pest problem and as a response to political pressure...

Bounty payment is often considered by scheme participants to be an ongoing source of income rather than an incentive to increase control activity...

Despite these failings and with little evidence of the past success or potential of such schemes, pressure to introduce traditional bounty schemes to address certain pest animal problems still occurs."

Sorry it just won't work.

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