Death Of Beloved Lion Heats Up Criticism Of Big Game Hunting

“We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange“. The company runs safaris on thousands of acres in South Africa.

He stated if hunters can lure out of the park and kill even Cecil-legendary in Zimbabwe, recognized for his majestic black mane-“it doesn’t bode nicely” for different lions. The White House has received a petition with over 130,000 signatures demanding Palmer’s extradition.

It is, for some well-heeled foreign visitors, the ultimate African experience: the thrill of hunting a lion, one of the “Big Five” animals whose habitats are under increasing pressure from human encroachment.

“Our goal is to understand the threats that lions face, and to use cutting-edge science to develop solutions to those threats”, director David Macdonald said on the unit’s website. The bill would put a statewide ban on the sale, possession, import or transportation of the bodies and body parts of African lions and four other species threatened by hunting.

“The United States is the largest source of game hunters traveling overseas and paying top dollar to shoot these majestic animals”, she said.

FLOCKEN: Over 95 percent were against hunting any endangered species for sport.

A New Jersey legislator is taking on the importation of game hunting trophies of threatened or endangered species in the aftermath of the global outcry over an American hunter killing Cecil, a popular lion in Africa. Americans don’t think this should happen.

According to CrocBITE, a database, from January 2008 to October 2013, there were more than 460 recorded attacks by Nile crocodiles, majority fatal.

Mike Hoffman, with the worldwide Union for the Conservation of Nature, says it’s important to distinguish betweenillegal poaching – which he says is the real driver behind the decline in wildlife numbers – and legal trophy hunting, in which people will pay a high price to hunt elephants, lions and the like. “But of course there is a lot of trophy hunting which is not necessarily well managed, and that can be extremely detrimental and have a very negative impact on [animal] populations”.

NORTHAM: Hoffmann says some countries have introduced quotas or outright bans.

“Short of going on a culling exercise where you are just shooting animals willy-nilly in order to reduce numbers, there is need to have a scientific way of doing it, which also brings resources for purposes of conservation”, he said.