One of Africa's most stable and prosperous countries with its diamond mines and mineral resources, wildlife tourism, cattle farming and the president has to feed its people with elephant meat? https://t.co/wjfQ80enT8
Is there actual data on this or just talk? What roles have they assigned? I mean they just started operations again after two years so was #ReconAfrica paying those 2400 peoples as well? Their statement is very confusing and misleading
@Bambiey57428487@WildfriendsUG@hannes_1961 The waterhole could well be one to attract animals for hunting. What happens when you share such hunter videos on SM is that you also support their twisted conservation fairy tales by giving them likes. That is unfortunate.
.@RickyGervais describes trophy hunters PERFECTLY...
"I'm sick of Trophy Hunters trying to excuse their grim sport by saying they provide a service. They exploit the needs of the poor. They pay lots of money to go and shoot a magnificent animal because the authorities need the cash, and then claim they are doing a good deed. It's not a good deed. Those authorities would rather have the money AND the animal still alive but they can't afford to. So they're forced to take money from rich psychopaths who get their cheap fucking thrills from shooting a Giraffe or Elephant in the head. If they were providing a service THEY would be the ones being paid. Imagine a vet paying you to put down your dog and then taking a selfie next to the corpse.
And as for "the money goes to saving there remaining animals" ..Oh dear. Where will it end? Can you pay more to kill the Leopard with a hammer if that's your perversion? They're already killing with bows and arrows for fucks sake. And would we allow some billionaire sicko to shoot one cancer patient if he gave a million dollars to cancer research? No. Of course we fucking wouldn't. If they really wanted to do a good deed they would donate the money, and NOT shoot the animal.
They would be heroes then. As opposed to murdering scum!"
#EndTrophyHunting NOW!!
@1hakankapucu Lambrechts is a hunter in Namibia. Seems they rescue a future elephant trophy from a waterhole they build to attract animals for hunting. Reposting this helps the twisted propaganda of hunters that they are conservationists. Are you pro trophyhunting ?? @XposeTrophyHunt
Female elephants rumble to say ‘let’s go!’ New study in Namibia shows males do too, a sign of unexpected social bonds https://t.co/r2IIQfceSA via @TC_Africa
How African governments profit from the last elephants.
Capturing & selling baby elephants, maximising hunting quotas, culling, running corruption rackets, are some of the strategies used to decrease elephant nos. & add to the ivory stockpile. None of them amount to conservation.
Namibia & Zimbabwe mass wildlife culls, including more than 300 elephants (whose tusks will go to the corrupt govts' ivory stockpiles $$$), have raised alarm among conservationists the world over. These culls will in no way help solve hunger, drought, HEC. Pls RT.
An exhausted animal that did nothing wrong, attacked by a hunter and hunting dogs, forced to dive into the river to escape the madness of men .. This sad photo speaks for itself... Ah! Hunting is beautiful! 😞
Trophy Hunters: Putting The Con In Conservation!
Trophy hunters targeted super-tusker bull Gilgil, a breeding Elephant aged 35, who would have been approaching his prime reproductive years. Male elephants reach their prime breeding years at or about 40 years. Sources confirmed that Gilgil was a ‘100-pounder’, with one tusk weighing 99 pounds and the other 110 pounds.
It was reported that the hunting operator identified the super tusker while the Elephant was outside the hunting block and targeted the Elephant shortly after it crossed into the hunting zone.
A helicopter was observed flying extensively in the area in the days preceding the hunt. Using an aircraft to find or coerce target animals is considered extremely unethical by 'responsible' trophy hunters.
Cynthia Moss, Director of Amboseli Trust for Elephants said "Amboseli Elephants are habituated to vehicles and also to people on foot because they live among the Maasai people. Photographers lie on the ground to photograph the magnificent giant Elephants as they stroll close by unconcerned. Shooting an Amboseli bull is about as sporting as shooting your neighbour’s poodle!”
Where else but in the world of trophy hunting can you pay for the privilege of endangering a species further while patting yourself on the back for “contributing” to conservation? Because nothing says you’re committed to the future of wildlife like ensuring it has no future at all.
#EndTrophyHunting NOW!