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As a gun owner and genuinely concerned for conservation efforts for big cats, elephants, apes, you name it (yes, I donate money and have for years), and as responsible gun owner, this news article outrages me.
This is the dirty business of those big game hunts that rich people with more money than sense like to go on, misguidedly thinking they are helping. They aren't. They are depleting the population, tampering with the ecosystem, and painting gun owners in a bad light around the world on a public stage.
Baloney are the arguments that only the weak are being culled under very close supervision and professional guides, etc... This shines a huge light on the fact that this lion was a leader of a pack and healthy, and this tampers with that dynamic, and these hunts are done by extremely selfish individuals who are depleting these amazing creatures for their own self centered pleasure.
The world is HATING us gun owners right now. Thank you very much. :banghead::banghead:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-killed-Cecil-Lion-bow-arrow-Zimbabwe.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/africa/zimbabwe-lion-killed/index.html
In summary, an American dentist and "hunter" paid $55,000 for a big game hunt in Africa to kill a lion. At night they used a spotlight (an illegal tactic in the US for sure) to shine for it. They baited with dead animals. He shot a lion with a crossbow which only wounded it. They then tracked it for 40 hours and when they found it they shot it repeatedly until it died a painful death. Then they saw it was a GPS tagged lion, so they tried to destroy the evidence. And then they skinned it and beheaded it.
Consider how much farther that $55,000 could have gone toward conservation if it were spent trying to actually do some good and save some of these majestic creatures!
I am beside myself with sorrow over the lion, and anger over this person I have rage toward.
Oh, and this angel has had run ins with the law before, pleading guilty to false statements to the US Fish and Wildlife
This is the dirty business of those big game hunts that rich people with more money than sense like to go on, misguidedly thinking they are helping. They aren't. They are depleting the population, tampering with the ecosystem, and painting gun owners in a bad light around the world on a public stage.
Baloney are the arguments that only the weak are being culled under very close supervision and professional guides, etc... This shines a huge light on the fact that this lion was a leader of a pack and healthy, and this tampers with that dynamic, and these hunts are done by extremely selfish individuals who are depleting these amazing creatures for their own self centered pleasure.
The world is HATING us gun owners right now. Thank you very much. :banghead::banghead:
According to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF), the hunt began on July 6. 'They went hunting at night with a spotlight and they spotted Cecil,' said the ZCTF's Johnny Rodrigues.
'They tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure Cecil out of the park and they scented an area about half a kilometre from the park.'
Rodrigues revealed that Palmer shot his bow and arrow at Cecil, but failed to kill him and that they stalked the wounded and stricken lion for 40 hours before finally shooting him dead and beheading him.
He added according to The Independent: 'The head – his trophy – has been impounded and confiscated as evidence for the court in Victoria Falls'.
And to add to the outrage surrounding the death of Cecil, the future of the cubs of his pride are now thought to be at risk. The cubs could be killed if the pride is taken over by another male lion.
'The saddest part of all is that now that Cecil is dead, the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho, will most likely kill all Cecil's cubs,' Rodrigues said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-killed-Cecil-Lion-bow-arrow-Zimbabwe.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/africa/zimbabwe-lion-killed/index.html
In summary, an American dentist and "hunter" paid $55,000 for a big game hunt in Africa to kill a lion. At night they used a spotlight (an illegal tactic in the US for sure) to shine for it. They baited with dead animals. He shot a lion with a crossbow which only wounded it. They then tracked it for 40 hours and when they found it they shot it repeatedly until it died a painful death. Then they saw it was a GPS tagged lion, so they tried to destroy the evidence. And then they skinned it and beheaded it.
Consider how much farther that $55,000 could have gone toward conservation if it were spent trying to actually do some good and save some of these majestic creatures!
I am beside myself with sorrow over the lion, and anger over this person I have rage toward.
Oh, and this angel has had run ins with the law before, pleading guilty to false statements to the US Fish and Wildlife
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