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I Dislike Hunting As A Sport

January/February 2016 Issue of All Animals: The Vanishing: How Trophy Hunting is Pushing Lions to the Brink of ExtinctionHello. Hello. Just read and am responding to the above article in the magazine that I recently received from the Humane Society of America. Just participiated in the following run also and contributed $20 for that. (
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So was noting a few things in the article. One the Safari Club International has a top prize of the World Hunting Award which requires offing 250 animals across 6 continents. SCI has 50,000 members. Stephen Slack has killed at least "650 animals from 37 countries." The big 5 are the African lion, the southern white rhino, the cape buffalo, the African elephant, and the African leopard. A wealthy US hunter has "killed at least 50 lions" and is frustrated with age regulations that interfere with his killing as many lions as he possibly can. There are 20,000 African lions left. Thus the continued existence of the Safari Club International is not consistent with the continued existence of the lions species as each one of the SCI members at least wants to get the big 5 and to do so would require killing a number of lions 2.5 times as great as the number existing in the wild.
It is further to be noted that this is not about the hunters getting money, defending their property from predation, or eliminating competition for getting came species such as deer and elk. It is simply blood lust, homicidal mania, an orgy of killing, the desire to fulfill an insatiable fetish which is reinforced by desires to seek awards, status, fame, and position, often competively. I also suspect that these hunters are not just Americans, but conservative Christian white Americans, largely of British and German background. Note that there are also poor Africans who do a lot of hunting and poaching for the sake of subsistence and to sell specimens in the lucrative east Asian market for charms and medicinals.

Geoffrey E. Harris

 
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