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Disgusts me even more that they profit and seek to credibly legitimise slaughter by calling it Conservation.
Bollocks - just Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank hypocrisy . Wankers.
If they killed the lion for food you might have a point.
Not that I agree with the point, it's a senseless and stupid killing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40656863
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067x5w1
What next? Righteous indignation and shaking of fists when the daughter of the lioness that Cecil's son shagged once gets shot?
http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/
As someone who worked in conservation biology & spent time in Africa I can see both sides of the argument. That bounty money can pay for a LOT of rangers to prevent poaching/illegal hunting, but it needs proper regulation... Something that can be sadly lacking in these parts of the world.
That said, I disagree with hunting for sport (pretty much on principle).
I saw the documentary but I'm not convinced that there was a substantial argument in the "conservation" element.
It cannot be argued that the animals in general were not a lot more populous before human intervention and that left to do it's own thing that Darwinian Survival and natural Selection had been doing the job perfectly well for thousands of years.
I think the Culling and Conservation issue is a mitigation of convenience for the justification of a lucrative tourist industry.
Trophy hunting of Big Game should have died out with Pith Helmets and Edwardian Explorers.
I support JUMANGI
Whether its a bird or a lion, it shouldn't be acceptable. Its disgusting and retarded IMO.
Just because you are able to kill things, doesn't make it right. I don't have a problem with killing for food, but I do when it's for fun.
The locals who need to protect themselves and their livestock will kill predatory big cats themselves in an uncontrollable (on a national scale) way. Much of the demand for culling comes from locals.
The loss of income will reduce the money to pay for game wardens to oversee the conservation of the species.
On the upside we in our insulated western idyll all feel much better about it all.
As ever there's more to a story than initially meets the eye, and in this case, as in the case of Cecil, the people promoting the story have an agenda.
I saw an article the other week about a circus owner who's elephant keeper was killed by their elephant after years of it being treated cruely. this happened in the States around 1910. The circus company wanted revenge and brought in a crane & hanged the elephant using a chain, the picture of it hanging still disturbed me to this day. What utter disgusting morons.
- drew the biggest crowds of any American event ever !