I find this particularly outrageous. I personally accept that animal husbandry including wildlife management includes the need
to kill individual animals. In North America it is even becoming a
pressing need as the real carnivores begin responding to the present
almost complete lack of hunting pressure on traditional prey species
which we also should be actively harvesting and managing.
Yet this is beyond anything i ever imagined been undertaken. Catering to fools who simply wish to kill a faux dangerous animal for bragging rights is disgusting. Having those same fools set up in a hide confronting the real thing is what they richly deserve. Man hunters are real and become known for their success.
At least the Grizzly hunter is confronting the real thing and he has to be good. Grizzlies will stalk before they charge and you may be the target. After all you may be protecting the bait. At thirty miles per hour and under one hundred yards, you have about three seconds to blow his head off.
The same story hold true for a real lion who can also leap over tall objects to fall on you.
It is all a little like going up against the Great White with a bowie knife. You have one chance to get it right after he detects your presence after which your advanced technology is scrap..
Samar Khan
The
cubs pictured above are among the 1,000 baby lion cubs who are bred
every year for no other purpose than to be shot by tourists.
https://www.change.org/p/south-african-government-please-ban-the-cruel-breeding-of-blood-lions
These
"Blood Lions" are taken from their mothers within two hours of their
birth and are hand reared by their owners who tame them so they are
easier to kill. The cubs grow up loving humans and are coddled by
hundreds of paying tourists who are told that the lions are being bred
for conservation. However, as soon as the cubs grow too big, they are
sent to a game reserve where they are stuck in small, crowded pens with
dozens of other cats. Pictures
of the lions are then taken and put on the Internet so that tourists
from around the world can pay thousands of dollars to claim them as the
victims of their next hunt in a practice known as "Canned Hunting".
The
chosen lions are taken into a different enclosure where they
are starved and drugged to make them easier targets. The lion handlers
and armed tourists then enter the enclosure in trucks. The
starving lions recognize their handlers and often head toward the truck
hoping for food but are met instead with a barrage of bullets.
It often takes over 10 bullets to bring the grown lion down, with the animal writhing in agony much of the time. Once
dead, the lion's head is presented to its hunter as a trophy and its
bones are sold to China for pseudo-medicinal purposes.
This is the fate awaiting these cubs.
As
inhumane and cruel as this breeding of Blood Lions is, it is NOT
illegal. Please sign this petition to let the South African Department
of Environmental Affairs know that legislation protecting these lions
must be passed!
Please
join us in asking the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna
Molewa to ban the practice of canned hunting and blood lion breeding. Today
in South Africa over 8,000 blood lions are pacing their pens and
awaiting their deaths. The blood lion population is expected to grow to
12,000 in the coming years.
Time
is running out for these lions, your support and public awareness is
urgently needed to stop this horrific practice once and for all!
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