What affects us affects cats
There is anger that the NEC will play host to several trophy hunting tour businesses at the forthcoming Great British Shooting Show. The NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham is a large exhibition centre which hosts, for example Crufts, the well-known dog show. A petition has gathered almost 20,000 signatures (and climbing fast) on …
Britain, supposedly a land of animal lovers, is facilitating the boom in canned lion hunting by allowing South African safari canned hunt operators to present their businesses at the Great British Shooting Show in Birmingham next February which describes “the dark continent of Africa” as “the ultimate hunting safari experience”. Canned hunting is nothing …
Trophy hunters can help lion conservation so says a UK government commissioned report. This has made animal advocates very angry. And when I think about it, I am drawn to one conclusion: if killing lions for trophies helps to protect the lion then the world has to be in a mess. Conservation has come …
A game farm where 250 lions were bred to be shot in canned lion shoots or “driven hunts” were neglected so badly that they were starving to death. The weaker lions were highly emaciated and dominated by the stronger lions who took what little food was available. The game farm in Alldays in the …
The last time I wrote about the trophy hunting of African lions was when I discussed Cecil, the famous Zimbabwean lion, who was shot with a bow and arrow by the infamous dentist Walter Palmer1. The world knew about this and the world was sick of it except for the damned trophy hunters of …
South Africa is not sufficiently interested in animal welfare. The country’s authorities and the businesses in that country are simply more interested in making money out of the wild species which happen to inhabit the country and this, of course, includes the lion; the animal which is most abused and exploited. The president of …
I have decided that it is just about possible that Walter Palmer, the instantly infamous dentist and father of two from Minnesota who took pleasure in killing Zimbabwe’s most famous male lion, was stitched up by the guides who led him into shooting Cecil, the lion, outside of his protected area, a national park. …
“He is one of many wealthy individuals who are willing to spend in excess of £60,000 for the privilege of shooting a lion in South Africa. These lions are bred to be shot in so called canned hunting operations which have grown significantly in South Africa over the last decade.” (Animal Rights UK on …
