Pieter Kat - LionAid Lion trophy hunting from the perspective of a former hunter Here is a video about lion “hunting” put together by Brian Gaisford, a former hunter who now lives in New York City where he runs the Hemingway Gallery of African art. He is a friend who now shows up at hunting conferences and tells everyone to stop lion hunting. He recently asked a representative of the Panthera Foundation some tough questions at their Exporer’s Club presentation about their pro-lion hunting stance. The hunting videos he uses are hard to watch but show the travesty of trophy hunting in all its “glory” – shooting canned lions, shooting baited lions from a hide, always high-powered rifles with telescopic sights that still incredibly seem not to be able to make a humane kill. Brian makes a very good point – “trophy hunters” these days come to Africa and see the animals for the first time though the crosshairs of their rifles. It is not about conservation, it is about the trophy delivered on a plate and then the hunter-conservationists are back on the next plane home. They want nothing to do with Africa, wildlife, conservation – they shop for lions on pampered safaris, splash some money around and leave with another bit of Africa’s ever more endangered national wildlife heritage. We are rightfully disgusted by commercial poaching of Africa’s elephants and rhinos for the benefit of those living in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, the USA and Europe. Just because commercial trophy hunters are issued with permits does not mean their impact on Africa’s lions is less destructive. Brian requested the latest lion trophy export figures yesterday, and here they are for you: Country totals, skins and trophies exported, 2002-2011: Benin: 22 Burkina Faso: 131 Botswana: 245 Central African Republic: 66 Cameroon: 77 Mozambique: 190 Namibia: 479 Tanzania: 1,761 South Africa: 6,475 Zambia: 560 Zimbabwe: 792 Total, 11 countries, skins and trophies 2002-2011: 10,798. That is ten thousand, seven hundred and ninety eight dead lions. lionaid.org/blog/2013/06/lion-trophy-hunting-from-the-perspective-of-a-former-hunter.htm
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:58:25 +0000
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