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originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
You missed the part where the meat feeds people
You'd think that as Lions are an endangered species they'd perhaps feed people on something more plentiful.
How many people does a Lion feed ? , surely a Lion in the wild is better than a Lion in the stomach.
Killing for fun or sport is cruel,pathetic,sad,lacking compassion and empathy. The people who do crap like this I have found to be very bad people in general. It is something deeply rooted in them.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: SubTruth
Killing for fun or sport is cruel,pathetic,sad,lacking compassion and empathy. The people who do crap like this I have found to be very bad people in general. It is something deeply rooted in them.
Proof please
originally posted by: SubTruth
a reply to: mindseye1609
Trophy hunting should be banned and using conservation is about ironic as it gets. The people who do this are looking for a story to tell like minded cruel idiots.
originally posted by: SubTruth
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: SubTruth
Killing for fun or sport is cruel,pathetic,sad,lacking compassion and empathy. The people who do crap like this I have found to be very bad people in general. It is something deeply rooted in them.
Proof please
Proof of a personal truth........I have found. Check out my ATS name and understand what it means....Heck I will hel you out.....Personal truth is subjective the facts are not. You can not provide proof of a personal truth because it is subjective. Personal truths can change......Facts change far less often.
I have found........Me saying this shows it is personal truth not fact.
Either way, trophy hunting IN GENERAL is a positive for the populations of African animals.
The most recent study, led by a scientist from Duke University, shows that as few as 32,000 lions are left in the wild. Many experts say there could be far fewer. (See an interactive experience on the Serengeti lion.)
While habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict (often in the form of retaliatory killings after lions kill livestock and sometimes even humans) are the primary causes of the lions' disappearance from Africa's forests and savannahs, trophy hunting adds to the problem. Approximately 600 lions are killed every year on trophy hunts, including lions in populations that are already declining from other threats. These hunts are unsustainable and put more pressure on the species. Unfortunately, Americans are primarily to blame. Approximately 60 percent of all lions killed for sport in Africa are shipped to the U.S. as trophies.
There are several reasons why trophy hunting is so bad for lions, beyond the obvious one that it kills healthy members of an imperiled species. The adult male lion is the most sought-after trophy by wealthy foreign hunters. And when an adult male lion is killed, the destabilization of that lion's pride can lead to more lion deaths as outside males compete to take over the pride. Once a new male is in the dominant position, he will often kill the cubs sired by the pride's previous leader, resulting in the loss of an entire lion generation within the pride.
But there was broad agreement among other conservationists that the LionAid figures were within the range of possible figures. "We put the figure slightly higher, at around 25,000 lions, but whether you use these figures, the LionAid report or the Duke study, there is common agreement among everyone involved in conservation of African lions that the situation is extremely serious," said Will Travers, director of the Born Free foundation. "In west and central Africa there are clusters in Burkina Faso, Niger, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Chad, but the overall situation is looking dire."
Last year the Fish and Wildlife Service in the US – which is the world's biggest importer of trophy-hunted lions – said it would examine whether the species warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act. Activists say more than 5,600 wild African lions were hunted and exported as trophies(pdf) between
West African lions on verge of extinction, report says
The Dallas Safari Club, an international organization of hunters and wildlife enthusiasts, said they plan to auction off a permit to hunt an endangered black rhino from the government of the Republic of Namibia. However, the organization says their goal is actually to save the rhino, of which there are approximately 5,055.
Populations of both species are in free fall as poaching frenzies drive the brutal killing and butchering, for their tusks, of tens of thousands of elephants every year. The number of Central African forest elephants declined by 62 percent in less than a decade, devastated by a lethal cocktail of illegal hunting, habitat loss and civil strife, and are the more urgently at risk of the two. Savanna elephant populations have also significantly declined throughout their range, with particular devastation in Tanzania, where one of the strongest populations of elephants — 109,000 animals — dropped to about 43,000 in just five years, between 2009 and 2014.
Save the Elephant
originally posted by: SubTruth
a reply to: mindseye1609
If the ground hogs are being killed to help out farmers I am OK with it......Just like the pigs in the south.I am pro-hunting for food or well being. Hunting for pure sport or fun is pathetic at best in my eyes.
originally posted by: SubTruth
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
How can you provide proof of truth......Do you not understand this simple......SIMPLE concept? Truth is subjective.
Can you provide proof of your religious beliefs or what color the sky is when you look out.......