Airlines ban the transport of hunting trophies

[Lisbeth]

Little by little, they are all going to take this step. Not all evil comes to harm........only.

[nan]

must be Cecil who had to pay "the price"... to shake a bit the world

Finally it moves... a little bit

[Richprins]

I'm going to look for some pics of Old Male Lions dying a "peaceful natural death"...which is what the bunnyhuggers seem to imagine what happens.

RP, someone on FB made this same argument. According to this logic we should allow hunters into all our parks and let them shoot all the lions nearing the end of their lives to save them from an inhumane death!!

Uh uh!


Nothing to do with national parks. (Although rangers often shoot suffering animals out of humanity) National Parks are conservation Areas prohibiting hunting, while hunting concessions are lucrative conservation areas allowing hunting, and employing people on land that would be otherwise largely unproductive.


This is a legal enterprise gone slightly wrong, and nana...world attention is fixed on a dentist...if only the same outrage would be directed against a poacher...

It is all brief social media foreigner rubbish, IMO.


Anyway, to apply REVERSE logic:


I had a beloved cow as a pet calf when I was young, saved as an orphan after a flood, and it became quite a success story in our neighbourhood on our private farm, it being given a name, "Cecil", ironically!

Cecil eventually became old, no longer a reproductive bull, and we killed him and ate part of him and sold his meat, which brought the family a nice sum of money, and enabled us to pay the monthly installment on the farm! Cecil's progeny still populate the farm, and we are a successful business, employing a number of people, paying our taxes and what not!

I was distressed, but understood the bigger picture!

[Lisbeth]

PRETORIA, South Africa - A recent decision by international airlines to ban the transport of animal trophies will damage South Africa's economy, the government has said.

The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) said on Friday that many South Africans living in rural areas are reliant on "hunting that takes place under regulated and coordinated conditions", and called for international airlines to revoke the decision.


(The hunter should do some other kind of "sport" )

"Many people are happy that illegal hunting will be affected, but we support legal hunting and it also plays an important role in our economy," Albi Modise, spokesperson for the department of environmental affairs, said.

The South African government said in a statement that the decision by Delta Air Lines to enforce a blanket ban failed to distinguish between legal trade and transportation of wildlife specimens versus the illegal ones.

Modise's comments come after American airline, Delta Air Lines, said that it would no longer transport lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo trophies. Other airlines, including American Airlines and United Airlines, Air Canada, Air France and Qantas have also announced a similar ban.

The bans come amid unprecedented international outrage over an American dentist's killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe. The incident also set off a fierce debate in neighbouring South Africa over the practice of hunting captive-bred lions.

Ian Michler, an independent film maker, says that around 1,000 lions bred in captivity in South Africa are killed every year by trophy seekers.

http://www.eturbonews.com/62384/south-a ... -countrys-

[Richprins]

[nan]

but that will stay
Ian Michler, an independent film maker, says that around 1,000 lions bred in captivity in South Africa are killed every year by trophy seekers.

[Richprins]

Ian Michler is on a bit of a high after the Blood Lions filmette...

[Flutterby]

MSC BAN THE TRANSPORT OF HUNTING TROPHIES

14/08/2015

Geneva, Switzerland

On the 9th July 2015, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company took the decision to ban the transportation of hunting trophies. This decision has been made on ethical grounds and is in keeping with the company's commitment to supporting animal welfare initiatives and to continually improve the sustainability of the organisation.

[nan]

[Richprins]

Politically Correct...where were they the last 100 years? Not genuine...