http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2675807/Animal-lover-outrage-blonde-Texas-cheerleader-smiles-dozens-photos-alongside-rare-big-game-hunts-African-safaris.html
- Kendall Jones, 19, is posting the photos on Facebook, where some believe the shots should be taken down
- Jones has posted shots of herself posing with dead elephants, hippos and lions among others that she’s killed across Africa
- Jones claims her kills come after a ‘fair chase,’ but thousands are demanding that Facebook remove the posts
- Jones is a cheerleader at Texas Tech and is gunning for a reality show about her African adventures
Global animal lovers are up in arms over a teenage Texas girl’s love of killing big African game, so much so that they’re even demanding she be banned from posting pictures of herself smiling alongside her trophies online.
Nineteen-year-old Kendall Jones claims photos of dead hippos, elephants, lions and other beasts on Facebook are a testament to her hunting skills and dedication to game preservation.
But critics are appalled by the teen’s beaming social media and are calling Kendall sick and depraved for killing the rare animals and boasting about it online.
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Conserving by killing? 19-year-old Texas cheerleader Kendall Jones really likes to kill rare animals in Africa. While she pays for her legal hunts, her critics says she’s not the conservationist she claims to be
Loves to hunt: Jones faces criticism over her claims that she’s a conservationist. The Texas Tech cheerleader’s smiling poses alongside dead rare African animals have won her particular ire
An online petition to force Kendall to remove her page because it promotes animal cruelty had gained over 40,000 signatures in just a week.
‘For the sake of all animals,’ reads the petition as it implored animal lovers to sign, ‘especially the animals in the African region… where hunters are going for fun just to kill an animal!’
Jones, whose Facebook indicates she ‘is looking to host a TV show in January 2015,’ maintains she is doing what’s best for the preserves, where there isn’t always space for even threatened species like elephants or lions.
‘Controlling the male lion population is important within large fenced areas like these,’ Jones writes. ‘Funds from a hunt like this goes partially to the government for permits but also to the farm owner as an incentive to keep and raise lions on their property.’
Jones’s photos show her posing with bagged zebras, hugging a dead leopard, and smiling beside elephants she’s killed.
One particular photo, in which she’s posing alongside a an extremely endangered rhinoceros, has her critics especially steaming, but the Texas Tech cheerleader says it was alive and well.
‘The vet drew blood, took DNA samples, took body and head measurements, treated a leg injury and administered antibiotics. I felt very lucky to be part of such a great program and procedure that helps the White Rhino population through conservation,’ she wrote.
Big 5: Jones says her first kill was a rare African white rhino, part of her quest to bag the Big 5 African game animals (rhino, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion)
and if you haven’t read enough about her yet, here’s a link to all 226 articles that come out today: https://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&ncl=dud2BbJ6yB4ChAMWM48-BLgzTe7YM
Exposing the Big Game 
This is so damned irritating.
So repulsive. Self promotion at the cost of magnificent lives. I can’t imagine how barren her life must be lacking a conscience.
I think she is disgusting
People like this will do *anything* to justify their behavior, won’t they? Ridiculous and disgusting.
What is the difference from poaching really? The animals are still dead. Who says the ‘government quotas’ are legitimate and the governments aren’t corrupt and on the take, selling out their precious wildlife? They certainly wouldn’t be the first (US, we’re looking at you).
If women or girls want to hunt, then they don’t get a free pass from scorn and criticism for their activities just because they are female. Name-calling or course is wrong, but people certainly have the right to express their opinion if she puts her photos out there on a public forum.
That would be good if the lion was posing over her to take another animals life is a sin against god she will be punished