Posted on 07/28/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by grundle
Cecil the lion, a famous black-maned resident of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, died at the hands of an American dentist, conservationists claim.
They say Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to hunt and kill Cecil with a bow and arrow. The incident occurred around July 6, with a professional hunting outfit reportedly luring Cecil outside the boundaries of the protected reserve using a dead animal as bait.
“Mr. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn't kill him,” Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement. “They tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. Cecil, who was known all over the world would have earned millions of dollars just from sightseeing. Walter Palmer apparently paid $50,000 for the kill."
It wasn’t the first kill for Palmer, who has multiple photos posted on the website Trophy Hunt America showing the Minnesota resident posing with dead lions, rhinos, water buffalo, warthogs, and other animals.
The Telegraph is reporting from two independent sources that Palmer was indeed the hunter listed on the permit documents, and a spokesperson for Palmer told the news outlet that Palmer believes he is the one responsible for the lion’s death.
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The "Circle of Life" occurs in the wild, not in a protected sanctuary where this lion had to be lured outside its boundary in order to be killed.........
Their is no equivalence between a human life and animal life. Some guy legally killed an old lion. Big friggin deal.
Would you rather he shot it with something similar to what the Indians hunted with? The goal is to ethically kill the animal.
Agree.
And I'm sure you've seen the prices for some of these hunting adventures. One nearly has to be wealthy just to partake in what you described. No joke.
Got that from God did ya?
Is that illegal, if not, next subject.
man, that bites.
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>> “Some guy legally killed an old lion. Big friggin deal.” <<
When he figures out how to create a new one, that’ll be a big deal.
Wanton killing for no legitimate purpose is no big deal?
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I saw lion meat for sale at Savenor's Market in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That's the market the NPR's Julia Child used to shop for her cooking show.
What I do not understand is that there is a photo that purports to show this man and his ‘white rhino’ kill. Elsewhere, I read that there is only one (ONE) white rhino left in the world. Does anyone know any details?
No. Got it from the Smithsonian.
It’s good to be a dentist.
For now.
How exactly was it depraved?
I own guns, shoot guns, keep them for protection.
I have never hunted, because I never had a desire to. I shot rats with a compound bow one time (grew up in a city).
I have no problem with hunting. My Grandsons all hunt. The oldest took 2 of the first Elk taken in KY in 40 years. Man was the meat good. I eat the deer they kill every year.
Hunting for the sake of killing, or even trophy hunting, I have some problem with that. Caught that eldest Grandson about to shoot a bird with the slingshot I had given him. I grabbed his arm, spun him around and asked him if he was going to eat that bird.
Killing for the sake of killing is wrong. God gave us control of the beasts to use. We are not meant to abuse that power.
Luring an old Lion, out of a preserve, shooting him with an arrow, and letting it suffer for 40 hours, then shooting it with a rifle, and taking it’s head?
I see no value, or use to this. Both men should pay a penalty.
A rug on the floor of a den is a big deal.
When my younger brother and I heard about gigging frogs, we snuck out of the house one night after dark and went on one of our adventures.
When we returned home with over 20 frogs we were busted at the back door. Mom was upset but Dad wasn’t . Dad just smiled and talked about learning a lesson. Suddenly my brother and I learned how to personally kill, skin and cut up a frog, all 20 of them. Then we learned that “you eat what you kill”.
Mom cooked those frog legs and my brother and I had to eat 10, each. My brother cried with each bite, I hated them too, but I pretended I liked them.
I learned may things that night at the table. I better have a darn good reason to kill something and I better be planning on eating it.
My brother and I went on many more adventures, but we now knew to be very quiet when we returned and to never bring back something we weren’t prepared to eat.
Each to their own, but I think this dentist is an ass and he should be forced to eat the skinned carcass he left laying in the field.
$50,000 to just kill a big old kitty? He could have gone to any Humane Society or PETA shelter in the US and killed hundreds of them for free and he wouldn’t even have to stalk them.
Yeah, it is illegal. The local authorities have charged the landowner and the hunt guide. The American is lucky to have got out of the country, and his pelt has been left in Africa. Not a good showing all around.
I have a high school friend who is wealthy and over the years has made two month long trips to Africa on safari hunts. Each trip cost him approx. $35,000..........
Do I agree with it? No..
But with that being said, such expeditions are necessary to the economy of the respective poverty stricken regions and are closely monitored by the local authorities.
The animals legally taken by license are given to the local community as a food source and my friend closely documented his travels via camera and has presented slide show presentations to the local schools in his area of Michigan.
As for me, I'd rather spend opening day weekend of pheasant hunting season walking fields with a buddy and maybe a dog and getting shut out than a day of shooting planted birds on a private preserve...........
Dad? Is that you dad? I thought you were dead? LOL
See post 36. Cheers.....
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