[marktwain]

It looks like wild populations of lions in much of Africa are now at risk because of anti-sport hunting efforts.

The article contains some good information that is not favorable to the American hunter, Palmer. It also says quite a bit that is not favorable about Zimbabwe.

[Steely Tom]

Anything to keep us from hearing about the threat from the Kerry the Moron facts.

[backwoods-engineer]

One lion killed by a hunter = bad.

90,000 babies murdered, mangled, and sold off for blood money by Planned Demonhood = good.

Okay, I understand this society.

When God's wrath comes, America will get it good and hard. And deservedly.

[MediaMole]

It’s sad that a guy who couldn’t follow hunting laws in the US to the point where he got a FELONY conviction for a hunting violation in the US is going to ruin it for everyone else.

I know a guy who is dedicated to African game conservation and is a big game hunter. He has a full elephant mount, but every endangered animal he has taken was specifically flagged as a problem animal.

We’re going to lose a lot of interesting species because they aren’t valuable alive.

[piasa]

As part of the celebrations for his 91st birthday next Saturday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will be served a feast featuring five impala, two buffalo, two elephants, two sables, and one lion. ...----------- It's Surprisingly Legal to Eat Lion Meat VICE News ^ | 02/19/2015 | Mark Hay

It's unsportsmanlike to drag meat around a preserve and then drag it outside the preserve so as to lure the animal out but we don't know for a fact that the hunter knew that the guides did that without a hearing. That said, I wonder how Mugabe's birthday meat was killed?

[RummyChick]

There was a controversy over Trump’s kid doing big game hunting.

It is making the rounds again now.

[mrsmith]

Very solid informative article.

“Its lions have no value to the rural villagers, “
Planned Parenthood should get a grant to go and educate the villagers on the value of having a provider of free post-natal abortions.

[grey_whiskers]

#Don'tLikeLionHunts?Don'tShootOne

#LionLivesMatter

#MoreThanBabies

[LucyT]

Four takeaway items about the unethical dentist:

1. (Walter J. Palmer and the professional hunter used food to lure the animal out of the game preserve.)

2. After the botched shot, hunter Walter J. Palmer and the professional hunter tracked the wounded lion and found him some forty hours later, whence they dispatched him with a rifle.

3. When the hunters found that he was fitted with a GPS collar because he was being studied by Hwange Lion Research, funded by Oxford University; they allegedly tried to destroy the collar but failed.

4. On 22 April, 2008, Walter J Palmer, age 48, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federal agent in connection with the poaching of a black bear in the state of Wisconsin. Palmer had been issued a license to hunt a black bear in Subzone A1 in northern Wisconsin.

Walter J. Palmer subsequently killed one some forty miles outside of Subzone A1 and then repeatedly lied to US Fish and Wildlife investigators about the bear’s origin. He was looking at a maximum of five years’ imprisonment for that, but in the end was fined $2,939 and put on probation for one year.

Walter J. Palmer was spared the felony conviction chiefly because he was a dentist and it might have impacted negatively on his ability to prescribe medications and his license to practice. Not to mention owning a firearm.

Check out article for more info.

[TurboZamboni]

Thanks to our wonderful, tenacious reporters, we now know more about some dentist than anyone currently president or running for president and learned Jimmy Kimmel really is more of a woman than Caitlyn Jenner.

[grey_whiskers]

Wondering Where The Lions Are

Cheers!

[FJB]

To “take” wild animals that are accustomed to a wildlife preserve in which humans are trusted is rather like shooting fish in a barrel. It is among the least sportsmanlike conduct imaginable. Trophy hunting is undoubtedly a holdover from more primitive circumstances in which there were legitimate needs to control predators and kill animals for their meat, fat, fur, bones, teeth, etc. However, in the year 2015, especially for a properous westerner living in the USA, I would suspect that the past and present compulsive trophy hunting exhibited by this individual is a form of psychopathology. It is even more sadistic to use a crossbow that foreseeably could leave the animal fleeing in pain and panic (in this case, reportedly for 40 hours!) before it collapses or is finally killed. This “person” really should be prosecuted for his reprehensible behavior. The thought of him working in my mouth performing dental procedures is downright creepy, and I would imagine that many of his patients now feel the same way.

[Rockpile]

A 13 year old feline in the wild is close to the end of the lion.

The great part about getting rid of the white debbil colonial governments and the reduction in trophy hunting compared to many decades back is that now there are less of these useless animals and more room for people.

[Rockpile]

Maybe there is a recording of the deposition that day.

[X-spurt]

This horse-hockey ‘Cecil’ thing is about some African gubmit trying to extort big money from the hunter. Damn! sounds a whole like the halfrican regime in the WhiteyHut.

Some people are simply not capable of ethically governing with any kind of liberty for their citizens. Point to one, just one in Africa that does not fall within my admonition. Our ‘experiment’ proved no different.