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A Proud Texas Trophy Hunter Sits Atop His African Kill

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WAKE UP WORLD WAKE UP .WHAT YOU ARE NEVER TOLD ;American trophy hunter Bill from Texas flew to Africa from America to murder this female elephant for fun .Possibly this female may have been a matriarch with group to lead or even young ones….American trophy hunters mostly with a tiny exception of a few other nationalities but mainly American trophy hunters who are currently fighting their American government ban of ivory from trophy hunted elephants from Tanzania and Zimbabwe.They murder as many elephants as Chinese headed African poaching syndicates.The difference is taxidermist After the trophy hunters are finished taking photos posing next to their victims , they move in cut the body up parts like the head ,feet and tail for case of elephants ,rhinos and lions to prepare to send to America these are the pictures the media never shows you hidden so tightly . Some times they prep the whole body to send to America.The reason you never shown this is because they move the bloodied bodies were as the poachers are just after just ivory or horn and leave the rest of the body behind to take the ivory or rhino horn to their Chinese heads.Trophy hunters and poachers both bad both murderers but you are only shown one .Both massacring African endangered wildlife,murdering in equal numbers but now you know . Below is two female American trophy hunters playing with cut off feet of an elephant they just killed as the taxidermist prepares the body parts to be taken to America.Poachers do it got money ,the trophy hunter for the love of killing.Both murderers both should held accountable equally.DONT FORGET AMERICA AND CHINA ARE THE TWO LARGEST MARKETS FOR IVORY .WAKE UP WORLD WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.
Photo: WAKE UP WORLD WAKE UP .WHAT YOU ARE NEVER TOLD ;American trophy hunter Bill from Texas flew to Africa from America to murder this female elephant for fun .Possibly this female may have been a matriarch with group to lead or even young ones.American trophy hunters mostly with a tiny exception of a few other nationalities but mainly American trophy hunters who are currently fighting their American government ban of ivory from trophy hunted elephants from Tanzania and Zimbabwe.They murder as many elephants as Chinese headed African poaching syndicates.The difference is taxidermist After the trophy hunters are finished taking photos posing next to their victims , they move in cut the body up parts like the head ,feet and tail for case of elephants ,rhinos and lions to prepare to send to America these are the pictures the media never shows you hidden so tightly . Some times they prep the whole body to send to America.The reason you never shown this is because they move the bloodied bodies were as the poachers are just after just ivory or horn and leave the rest of the body behind to take the ivory or rhino horn to their Chinese heads.Trophy hunters and poachers both bad both murderers but you are only shown one .Both massacring African endangered wildlife,murdering in equal numbers but now you know . Below is two female American trophy hunters playing with cut off feet of an elephant they just killed as the taxidermist prepares the body parts to be taken to America.Poachers do it got money ,the trophy hunter for the love of killing.Both murderers both should held accountable equally.DONT FORGET AMERICA AND CHINA ARE THE TWO LARGEST MARKETS FOR IVORY .WAKE UP WORLD WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.
 
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Tackling the Tusk Trade

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Michael Markarian: Animals & Politics

In a welcome break from partisan gridlock, Republicans and Democrats are joining together to protect elephants and rhinos from illegal poaching. This month, New Jersey and New York became the first two states to ban the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horns, with bills signed by Governors Chris Christie, R-N.J., and Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y.  The new policies will help to crack down on international wildlife traffickers and dry up the demand for illegal wildlife products in the northeast, which is the largest U.S. market for ivory and a main entry point for smuggled wildlife products.

Elephants and rhinos are threatened by a global poaching crisis. Only 28,000 rhinos of five different species remain in the wild, with more than 1,000 of them poached last year for their horns. In 2012, about 35,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks, and if the current poaching rate continues, African elephants could be extinct in a few decades. In Central Africa, populations of forest elephants have declined by 65 percent during the last decade. Asian elephants are critically endangered with fewer than 50,000 left in the wild.
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Seized U.S. ivory stockpile bound for crushing. Credit: The HSUS/Iris Ho
Much of the killing is associated with criminal networks and Africa-based terrorist groups like al-Shabaab, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and others, which use the proceeds from ivory sales to fund their nefarious activities. As House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., noted, “While this growing problem is a grave threat to wildlife, with some animals facing extinction, it is also a threat to U.S. national security interests. As long as illegal wildlife trafficking continues, terrorists and rebel groups will have yet another way to fund their deadly objectives.”
Policymakers need to do more to address this problem. Fortunately, President Obama has announced a national strategy to crack down on elephant poaching and the ivory trade, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to issue new regulations that would prohibit the commercial import all African elephant ivory, including antiques, with a few exemptions for non-commercial purposes. This near-total ban on U.S. commerce in African elephant ivory, with the exception of a narrow class of antiques and certain ivory items that are exempt from regulation under the Endangered Species Act, will build on the efforts of the states to stem the tide of the poaching epidemic.
Shockingly, some members of Congress are trying to retain the status quo on the illegal slaughter of elephants, and at the request of the trophy hunting and gun lobbies and the music and antique industries, are fighting the Administration’s proposal. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.—whom Chattanoogan columnist Roy Exum said is “morphing into America’s newest champion of animal abuse”—and Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., have introduced the so-called “Lawful Ivory Protection Act,” which would handcuff the Fish and Wildlife Service and prevent the administration from taking any new action to protect elephants from the ivory trade.
These short-sighted politicians are lamenting the ability of someone to resell a gun or a guitar with a little bit of ivory on it, without regard for the fate of the largest land mammal in the world or our national security. Congress should follow the lead of New Jersey and New York, and support the global effort to stop the slaughter of elephants and rhinos—not provide aid and comfort to the organized criminal network of poachers and traffickers.

KWS Rangers kill poacher next to the 45-year-old elephant he had killed in Tsavo

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Sunday, July 27, 2014 – 00:00 — BY RAPHAEL MWADIME

The suspected poacher killed in Tsavo West on Friday night lying with the elephant carcass they had killed.Photo/Raphael Mwadime

The suspected poacher killed in Tsavo West on Friday night lying with the elephant carcass they had killed.Photo/Raphael Mwadime

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have killed one suspected poacher and recovered four elephant tusks  in Tsavo West National Park.

Five other poachers fled leaving behind an M16 rifle, two AK47 magazines, an axe, three saucepans and six five litre water jerry cans.

The poachers had already killed a 45-year-old elephant near the water pan and were in the process of removing its tusks.

Senior KWS Warden in charge of Tsavo West, Josephat Erupe, said KWS rangers on Friday traced foot prints of the group of poachers before getting them removing ivory from a bull elephant they had killed.

“On Friday our rangers spotted the strange foot prints that they traced to Marwa dam where the suspects had killed an elephant. At about 8pm our officers caught up with the suspects where they spotted spot lights and when they came closer, they saw the group removing tusks from the elephant. They opened fire and gunned down one suspect,” he said.

Erupe said that the rangers took ambush until Saturday morning where they realised that they had gunned down one suspect and recovered four elephant tusks and the firearm.

“We have launched an air ground operation to track the runaway suspects. It a matter of time before our security personnel catch up with them,” he told the Star at the scene of incident.

Erupe said that the poachers have devised a habit of waiting for elephant at the watering pans where they kill them.

“We have observed that the poachers wait for elephants when they come to drink water at the watering pans where they shoot them. We have enhanced security surveillance in the park in a bid to fight poaching,” he said adding that the male Jumbo aged about 45 years was killed some 50 metres from the water pan.

– See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-180101/kws-rangers-kill-poacher-next-45-year-old-elephant-he-had-killed-tsavo#sthash.EvqIopTK.dpuf

Petition: Ban Endangered African Animal Trophy Imports From Namibia

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Corey Knowlton and Kendall Jones ‘Love Animals ‘
and they are massacring some of the most endangered wildlife on this planet into extinction for blood money , in other countries with no protection , for American TV Hunting Channels for ent…ertainment .
Do you want to remove them from FB ? only , or do you want to remove thousands of people like them from a country > ???????? Namibia ? by blocking USA Animal Trophy Imports … this is with in your grasp but, we need your help to get this petition out there … Thank You
Please sign and share everywhere .. reach all the corners of the world and post it on pages and walls so that the world can judge these two death stars …………and lets block these vile people : https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Director_Robert_G_Dreher_USFWS_Ban_Endangered_African_Animal_Trophy_Imports_From_Namibia/

Belgian beauty loses modeling gig after her hunting pic hits the web

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Axelle Despiegelaere appears in a video promoting L’Oréal.

The Belgium beauty that scored a L’Oreal modeling deal after her World Cup photos went viral earlier this week has been released from her contract.

The decision comes after 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere sparked outrage on Facebook with a picture showing her posing with a dead oryx gazelle she had hunted in Africa, The Independent reports.

More: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/07/11/belgium-beauty-loses-modeling-gig-after-her-hunting-pic-hits-web/

Gun Lobbyist Kills Elephant In NRA-Sponsored NBC Sports Show

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The show, sponsored by the NRA, has aired on various networks in the past, but NBC Sports Network is now facing backlash for carrying newer episodes of the program.

In the video above, Makris, wearing the brown safari hat, can be seen tracking the elephant, taking aim and shooting it twice. The large animal trumpets, and Makris and his guide retreat to reload.

“Somebody got a little cheeky there,” he says, chuckling after the elephant stormed in their direction. Makris then raises his rifle up again and shoots it “between the eyes.”

In the next scene, he and his guide stand next to the dead elephant and talk about how they snuck right into its “bedroom” to kill it. The next clip shows the group sipping from champagne glasses, as the guide talks about the “special” act of bringing the elephant’s ivory back to camp.

As The Australian reports, the elephant hunt is completely legal, despite being controversial:

Controlled big game hunting still goes on in Africa and many reserves are set up by governments, who use money paid by rich safari hunters to fund broader conservation efforts. Elephant numbers in Botswana, however, have declined so greatly that a ban on hunting has been legislated. That ban won’t come into force until next year.

NBC Sports has since faced backlash on Twitter over their decision to air video of the safari, legal or not. A petition launched this week calls for the network to cancel the show. Another campaign at Causes.com has gotten around 5,000 signatures.

Makris, a legislative and PR strategist for the NRA, has quite the trophy case of controversial animals. A screenshot on the “Under Wild Skies” website shows him posing next two dead male lions. According to other show titles, he has also hunted rhinos, leopards and other elephants for the program.

No Cheers for Trophy Hunting

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>While most of these hunts may have been legal, they certainly were not ethical. Many of these hunters claim to be “pro-conservation,” but they clearly are not “pro-animal” as in the end their trophy kill is no less lethal or brutal than poachers who are similarly robbing the planet of their wildlife.<

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-flocken/no-cheers-for-trophy-hunting_b_5551404.html

by Jeff Flocken

This week, a 19-year-old Texas college cheerleader caused a stir when she posted photos online of her posing with imperiled African wildlife that she had hunted. An elephant, a lion, a leopard and a tranquilized white rhino — which she claimed was conveniently in need of being knocked-out for research purposes — all being propped up and posed as dead or unconscious trophies for her photo collection. Not surprisingly, the onslaught of comments overwhelming condemned her bloodthirsty escapades.

This is just the latest in a series of high-profile incidents where a trophy hunter attempted to flaunt their participation in this killing sport — under the unlikely guise of conservation — and it backfired. The King of Spain, Donald Trump’s sons, the CEO of GoDaddy, aspiring TV hunt-show host Melissa Bachman and the winner of the Dallas Safari Club auction to kill one of the last black rhinos in Namibia, are just a few examples of animal killers who found out that they are in the small majority of our population that are willing to tolerate killing charismatic and endangered species for sport.

While most of these hunts may have been legal, they certainly were not ethical. Many of these hunters claim to be “pro-conservation,” but they clearly are not “pro-animal” as in the end their trophy kill is no less lethal or brutal than poachers who are similarly robbing the planet of their wildlife.

In this modern day and age, saying that we have to kill something in order to save it is just no longer acceptable. There are ways to help communities in Africa living among (and, sometimes in conflict with) wildlife, that does not necessitate killing the animals. IFAW and other wildlife conservation organizations and animal protection groups are working with local communities on-the-ground every day find real solutions.

Elephants, great cats, rhinos are all struggling to survive in the face of shrinking habitat and unsustainable exploitation. There are fewer than a half million elephants left in the wild, less than 35,000 lions in Africa, and only around 5,000 black rhinos left. As their populations decrease, they unfortunately become more valuable as a trophy. Setting a price tag on the head of magnificent animals because they are rare and worth more dead than alive is the same philosophy that is driving the insatiable markets behind wildlife poaching.

Luckily the world is finally paying attention to the horrific global wildlife trafficking problem. But how can we be incensed and shocked by other nations illegally killing their wildlife for money in order to survive, when we knowingly watch Americans dump piles of money to go and kill these same animals for mere sport?

It’s easy to see why this young woman and the others like her have stirred up such great emotion. Trophy hunters personify an ugly stereotype of Americans who travel abroad and pay to do whatever they want. This is not how I, as an American, want to be seen or known around the world. Hopefully, the small number of Americans who still revel in this kind of vainglorious exploitation and killing of living things for fun will disappear before all the animals do.

Jeff Flocken is the North American Regional Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

 

 

Kendall Jones: Just another Pretty Psychopath

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In way, I suppose we could feel sorry for Kendall Jones and people like her. Although74490788 she’s old enough to follow her daddy’s example as a conscienceless trophy hunter, she may too young and inexperienced in the ways of the world to understand how men really see her. Girls like that must not get that males— especially during hunting season, when their blood is up with the urge to kill—don’t really see them as equal hunting partners. They objectify them just as the girls objectify the animals they target.

On the other hand, as a cheerleader in Texas you’d think she’d be used to being leered at, drooled over and thought of only as an object. It would appear that killing animals and taking trophies of her own is a classic case of the mechanism known as transference of victimhood. (Transference of victimhood is a common coping mechanism for those who have been abused themselves or for those who feel their 30973_4756818474045_484772904_nover-inflated egos have not been stroked enough.) Men have used this mechanism for as long as the human species has existed, taking out their aggressions on “their” women or anyone else they think they can pick on. Serial killers and other misogynists kill or attack random women as surrogate victims, to compensate for their perceived inadequacies.

Sport hunters, out hoping for a trophy set of antlers to boost their flagging self-esteem, objectify not only the animals, but also the women of a given area. Pretty young girls are seen as “fresh meat” and a beautiful woman is a potential conquest.

In trying to please their daddies, young girls sometimes want to be like them, though most aren’t obsessed with killing every beautiful animal they see and trying to pass it off as “conservation.” Perhaps, after years of intensive counseling, Kendall Jones will grow out of it. Until then, let’s hope she continues to bury her mothering instincts. The last thing this world needs is a brood of trophy-hunter wannabes out trying to impress their murderous mommy.

Text and Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson

Text and Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson

Wildlife Products May Finance Terrorism

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[Finally they have a good reason…]

The U.S. government is stepping up its crackdown on the illegal trafficking of wild animal products across the nation’s borders, saying some may be linked to terrorists, federal officials said Monday.

“Poaching in Africa is funding terrorist groups,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told a news conference at Kennedy International Airport.

He said such illegal trade is a threat to global security because it’s driven by criminal elements, including terrorists using profits from items such as rhinoceros horns and elephant tusks to finance their activities.

Paul Chapelle, the agent in charge of New York for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said one horn case resulted in 16 arrests, including that of a mobster from Ireland now serving 13 months behind bars.

A dead elephant is worth about $18,000 — mostly from the tusk.

Kennedy handles the largest cargo volume of any U.S. airport, about $100 billion a year, said Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.

And the wildlife element plays an especially powerful role in national security, said Froman, the chief U.S. trade negotiator and adviser to President Barack Obama.

More than 20,000 elephants were killed last year along with about 1,000 rhinos, meeting a rising world demand resulting in declining populations across Africa, according to officials with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

This treaty was signed by more than 170 countries to protect animals that end up as contraband including live pets, hunting trophies, fashion accessories, cultural artifacts and medicinal ingredients.

U.S. trade officials believe that groups benefiting from the poaching include the militant Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and South Sudan, the Janjaweed comprised of Sudanese Arab tribes, and al-Shabab, a jihadist group based in Somalia.

In February, Obama approved a new strategy for fighting trafficking through enforcement, as well as partnerships with other countries, communities and private industry. For the first time, U.S. officials are asking trading partners to agree to conservation measures for wildlife and the environment in return for signing agreements.

Kennedy customs officials are reaching out to local businesses, plus auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s and even Carnegie Hall to alert them to illegally traded valuables that may come their way.

 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-wildlife-products-may-finance-terrorism-n132716
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