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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother elephant killed POS trophy hunter! KARMA ROCKS!
April 2017: Scott Van Zyl, owner of a canned hunting facility in South Africa and an organizer of trophy-hunting African safaris, is eaten by the crocodiles hed intended to kill in Zimbabwe.
May 2017: Theunis Botha, a friend of Van Zyl and the owner of another South African hunting facility, is crushed to death by an elephant when he and his fellow trophy hunters surprise a breeding herd at a private hunting ranch in Zimbabwe.
August 2017: Karma strikes for the third time this year. While hunting in a private wildlife reserve in Namibia, Jose Monzalvez of Argentina is trampled by an elephant.
Because of hunting, poaching and loss of their habitat due to development, the population of African elephants the largest animals walking the Earth has dwindled from 3 to 5 million in the early 1900s to only about 415,000 today. Yet in 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed the status of this species from endangered to the less critical vulnerable.
Endangered species are likely to go extinct very soon, while vulnerable species have a lower risk of disappearing, giving us a better chance to intervene and save them, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) explains.
Trophy hunters like to boast that they are doing just that: Helping to save vulnerable and endangered species while at the same time providing money to impoverished communities. A 2015 Safari Club International Foundation report claimed the sport provides important economic opportunities for many areas where other common forms of income are limited.
However, a study earlier this year by Humane Society International (HSI) contradicted the Safari Clubs report. Not surprisingly, HSI found that trophy hunting in Africa provides little economic benefit and does not lead to effective conservation.
Its time to stop pretending that slaughtering big game and posing for morbid selfies by their slain bodies is anything more than killing for kicks, said Masha Kalinina, an international trade policy specialist for HSI, when the study was released in February.
Although its very unlikely, heres hoping that karma striking three times this year proves to be the charm as far as dissuading anyone from practicing this cruel sport. In the meantime, please sign and share the Care2 petition to end trophy hunting.
http://www.care2.com/causes/karma-another-trophy-hunter-has-been-killed-by-an-elephant.html
May 2017: Theunis Botha, a friend of Van Zyl and the owner of another South African hunting facility, is crushed to death by an elephant when he and his fellow trophy hunters surprise a breeding herd at a private hunting ranch in Zimbabwe.
August 2017: Karma strikes for the third time this year. While hunting in a private wildlife reserve in Namibia, Jose Monzalvez of Argentina is trampled by an elephant.
Because of hunting, poaching and loss of their habitat due to development, the population of African elephants the largest animals walking the Earth has dwindled from 3 to 5 million in the early 1900s to only about 415,000 today. Yet in 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed the status of this species from endangered to the less critical vulnerable.
Endangered species are likely to go extinct very soon, while vulnerable species have a lower risk of disappearing, giving us a better chance to intervene and save them, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) explains.
Trophy hunters like to boast that they are doing just that: Helping to save vulnerable and endangered species while at the same time providing money to impoverished communities. A 2015 Safari Club International Foundation report claimed the sport provides important economic opportunities for many areas where other common forms of income are limited.
However, a study earlier this year by Humane Society International (HSI) contradicted the Safari Clubs report. Not surprisingly, HSI found that trophy hunting in Africa provides little economic benefit and does not lead to effective conservation.
Its time to stop pretending that slaughtering big game and posing for morbid selfies by their slain bodies is anything more than killing for kicks, said Masha Kalinina, an international trade policy specialist for HSI, when the study was released in February.
Although its very unlikely, heres hoping that karma striking three times this year proves to be the charm as far as dissuading anyone from practicing this cruel sport. In the meantime, please sign and share the Care2 petition to end trophy hunting.
http://www.care2.com/causes/karma-another-trophy-hunter-has-been-killed-by-an-elephant.html
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Another elephant killed POS trophy hunter! KARMA ROCKS! (Original Post)
MoonRiver
Aug 2017
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USALiberal
(10,877 posts)1. I also have no regrets over this persons death. n/t
MFM008
(19,818 posts)2. I always support
The " down trodden" except in this case......
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)3. It's called self-defense. And yeah, I support that 100%.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)4. Rest in Pieces
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)5. I hope the spawns of 45 are taking their annual animal murdering trip to
one of the places mentioned in the article. I would love to see their heads mounted and hung in an appropriate place (like Hell).
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)6. Im becoming convinced
that elephants are as smart as humans.
Seems to me they are #resisting in tandem with us, doesnt it?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)7. Google "spindle neuron" and you will know for sure.
Thats really interesting. Responsible for self awareness. I guess this is a neuron that trump lacks.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)10. I agree. In every species there are throwbacks. Chumpy is one.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)9. Good. nt
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)11. Karma, indeed