6 thoughts on “This Is How Many Animals Were Killed in Zimbabwe in the Last 20 Years”
And what about the trophy hunting that goes on right here in the USA? No one says a thing about that. I have no doubt that if you asked a hunter what the difference is between the killing of Cecil and baiting and killing deer they would come up with some ludicrous reasons. It might be entertaining to hear their answers though. We have hundreds of canned hunt places in our country but no one does anything about it or is as outraged as what that piece of human scum did to Cecil. It is the same thing. I do hope though that this will be an awakening for some.
Senators Menendez, Booker and others are introducing the CECIL bill to block importation of trophies and body parts of endangered wildlife. I love that the acronym spells ‘Cecil’ in tribute to him. I hope this bill succeeds, and I truly believe Cecil’s killing has been an eye-opener for many people about the wasteful killing of all wildlife, here in the US too. The fact the US is the biggest importer of lion trophies really ought to make people outraged.
If nothing is done about Palmer here, I hope that Zimbabwe and other African nations will bar him from ever entering their countries ever again, as a criminal poacher.
The hunts in Africa are terrible, and that was brought home to us in a more personal way with the death of Cecil at the hands of an American trophy hunter. I think Africa gets more attention when it comes to trophy hunting because the sough-after animals are big, “charismatic,” and more rare. So we don’t hear about the millions of deer, elk, moose, and predators hunted here Then we have the canned hunts of the American bears and the big and charismatic cats who originated in Africa and Asia, but have been bred here, had become more accustomed to people, and were then trapped behind fences and shot. Think Dr. Palmer is disgusting? Well, how about those hunters too? I hope Cecil’s death brings up the ethics of canned hunting and all hunting.
Trophy Hunting
The US government has long been in the wildlife killing business and is oriented toward seeing wildlife as renewable recreational killing opportunities (see Wildlife Management Wikipedia) and as objects of pest control. Even our “conservationist” exalted Aldo Leopold saw animals this way. Our deep pocketed African wildlife trophy hunters have no conscience regarding wildlife, so it is up the the rest of society to bring them into check by legal means and public condemnation. Hunters have no or little, sense of right or wrong when it comes to wildlife, or trappers of course, seeing them as objects of profit and recreational killing opportunity or pests, as is the view of our wildlife agencies. So, it is really little surprise that our government has been looking the other way when comes to African wildlife sport killing (aka hunting), poaching, and animal parts import. We, as a total population, need to bring pressures to bear, social and legal, to control our less evolved human elements and to redefine the meaning of conservation, animals as sentient too, and the value of biodiversity, and re-wilding concepts/outlook to the forefront.
Exposing the Big Game 
And what about the trophy hunting that goes on right here in the USA? No one says a thing about that. I have no doubt that if you asked a hunter what the difference is between the killing of Cecil and baiting and killing deer they would come up with some ludicrous reasons. It might be entertaining to hear their answers though. We have hundreds of canned hunt places in our country but no one does anything about it or is as outraged as what that piece of human scum did to Cecil. It is the same thing. I do hope though that this will be an awakening for some.
That’s exactly right, thanks.
Senators Menendez, Booker and others are introducing the CECIL bill to block importation of trophies and body parts of endangered wildlife. I love that the acronym spells ‘Cecil’ in tribute to him. I hope this bill succeeds, and I truly believe Cecil’s killing has been an eye-opener for many people about the wasteful killing of all wildlife, here in the US too. The fact the US is the biggest importer of lion trophies really ought to make people outraged.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/nj_sen_menendez_proposes_legislation_inspired_by_c.html
If nothing is done about Palmer here, I hope that Zimbabwe and other African nations will bar him from ever entering their countries ever again, as a criminal poacher.
If they attach it as a rider I’ll be very happy too.
The hunts in Africa are terrible, and that was brought home to us in a more personal way with the death of Cecil at the hands of an American trophy hunter. I think Africa gets more attention when it comes to trophy hunting because the sough-after animals are big, “charismatic,” and more rare. So we don’t hear about the millions of deer, elk, moose, and predators hunted here Then we have the canned hunts of the American bears and the big and charismatic cats who originated in Africa and Asia, but have been bred here, had become more accustomed to people, and were then trapped behind fences and shot. Think Dr. Palmer is disgusting? Well, how about those hunters too? I hope Cecil’s death brings up the ethics of canned hunting and all hunting.
Trophy Hunting
The US government has long been in the wildlife killing business and is oriented toward seeing wildlife as renewable recreational killing opportunities (see Wildlife Management Wikipedia) and as objects of pest control. Even our “conservationist” exalted Aldo Leopold saw animals this way. Our deep pocketed African wildlife trophy hunters have no conscience regarding wildlife, so it is up the the rest of society to bring them into check by legal means and public condemnation. Hunters have no or little, sense of right or wrong when it comes to wildlife, or trappers of course, seeing them as objects of profit and recreational killing opportunity or pests, as is the view of our wildlife agencies. So, it is really little surprise that our government has been looking the other way when comes to African wildlife sport killing (aka hunting), poaching, and animal parts import. We, as a total population, need to bring pressures to bear, social and legal, to control our less evolved human elements and to redefine the meaning of conservation, animals as sentient too, and the value of biodiversity, and re-wilding concepts/outlook to the forefront.