Download PDF – “Beyond Cecil: Africa’s Lions in Crisis,” Panthera, WildAid, WildCRU, August 2016
Interesting reference report for future comment and analysis.
Download PDF – “Beyond Cecil: Africa’s Lions in Crisis,” Panthera, WildAid, WildCRU, August 2016
Interesting reference report for future comment and analysis.
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GOOGLE …. BOB VITRO 10 LION HUNT and see a lion slaughter by US hunters
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Brian, Yes I have seen the ‘spectacle’ and posted the 2012 Bob Vitro video referenced in the IWB article “Canned Duplicity and Decline” – https://iwbond.org/2016/07/08/canned-duplicity-and-decline/:
““Between the killing party, eight female and two male lions (hand-bred ‘canned’ lions) were shot from tree tops, whilst hiding in burrows and cowering against enclosure fencing………the lions were simply seeking to evade the massed hunters’ guns suddenly raining upon them. The target animal’s bewilderment is palpable and rudimentary evasion opportunities heart wrenching” – The horror and deceit of the ‘hunting’ is abhorrent (and they want to call these deprave actions “conservation” (sic)?).
This report is highly disappointing, while there are some efforts in these plans to maintain populations, it clearly pointed to the Lions as a continued “resource” for hunters, confirming the “conservationist” view. The fact that we discuss these lions as property still, with seeing fit to allow killing at a certain age, in a certain place, ect, I wonder if we discussed humans that way, like, ok let’s wait until they are ten years old, when they can run fast enough to make a really fun game of it, same old speciesist thought process. The Leopold troops have moved from humans to animals.
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Dominique, Agreed.
This Panthera/WildAid/WildCRU report still suggests that trophy hunting can be ‘good’ (sic), but also gives the arguments against, but it fails to acknowledge the validity of the evidence against hunting as “a ‘tool’ for conservation.” I have also just read Craig Packers’ 2015 book, “Lions in the Balance” where he (still) extols the virtues of hunting as a conservation tool theory, but the rest of his book basically exposes the corruption within hunting and how it fails to deliver in reality, how it is slow to improve in any shape or form etc.
The theory hunting can be “a ‘tool’ for conservation” is clearly not apparent in 99.9% of applied cases – so it’s long overdue for being abandoned as a theory that always seems to fail in practice (due to human corruption, greed, self-interest etc. prevailing) often securing habitat but not protecting the inhabitants, never delivering the promised ‘theory’ in reality (imo) only income/profits.
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