Black RINO ? Somebody killed Colon Blow ?
Posted on 08/01/2015 10:07:38 AM PDT by EveningStar
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Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino
Done right, paid hunts for endangered animals can be a huge boon for conservation
American Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 for a permit to hunt a black rhino in Namibia under the auspices of the Dallas Safari Club back in January 2014. Black rhinos are critically endangered, and Knowlton received death threats after the permit auction, but the details of his hunt are likely to win over all but the most ardent hunting opponents.
For starters, the money will go to fight poaching. (That's right: this pay-to-play hunt will help fund efforts to prevent exactly the kind of crappy practices used by Palmer's team) The permit from the Namibian government authorized only the killing of one of 18 elderly male black rhinos, which are actually considered a net negative for overall species survival, since they are past their breeding years but remain territorial and are therefore a threat to the younger males. Knowlton and his well-vetted team whittled that list to just four animals and were obsessively carefully about finding the right rhino to kill ...
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They’ve both in the wrong business. Everyone knows the real money is in human baby parts - and there seems to be no shortage of them.
We should be farming some of these endangered animals and follow these guy’s example:
I hate to choke out this sentence but “the government should ‘allow’ us to raise Lions here in the states for hunting and repopulating them.”
I hate the fact that OUR government has been a impediment to the entrepreneurs in Texas who run “game farms” in Texas that are doing more to prevent extinction than the sissy ass libs in big cities.
Oh My God! The title and author of this piece is so blatantly racist! He calls the lion Cecil by name, but when talking about a BLACK Rhino, it’s just a damn Black Rhino.
In Spanish it would be "Rhino Negro".
I have nothing against hunting, but $50,000? $350,000? I think I would have used that money much differently.
My uncle has made custom big game rifles since the 50s. For the past 25 years, he has had just 2 clients that he builds for. These guys don’t bat an eye over a $25,000 rifle or spending a couple hundred thousand a year to hunt.
One is a licensed pharmacist who also owns a high end jewelry store in Chicago.
The other is, ironically, a dentist.
I hunt deer, dove and quail when I’m fortunate enough to get the opportunity-I only hunt what I intend to eat-I don’t see doing it for any other reason, and I don’t give a crap about trophies...
If rich fools want to pay to sit in a vehicle and shoot a semi-tame animal in an enclosure and call it a “hunt”, then that is fine. I personally have no use for anyone who does what ordinary rural people call “canned hunts”, or “feed-and-shoot”-I consider it animal cruelty, and I don’t associate with people who are cruel to animals-they are not usually nice to people, either-and those people don’t often eat what they kill.
If you do not go into the field, stalk, walk and track a “real” wild animal in its environment, it does not meet the definition of a hunt-the only thing those dilettantes hunt for is a glass of wine to drink while they pretend they are roughing it-and most of those “hunters” ARE the sissy ass bunch from the cities.
Importing predator animals for sport can go badly wrong and devastate the natural population of animals and food-it happened when European boars were brought to the South and Southwest for sport hunting-now the f’ing things are everywhere, destroying crops and wild habitat, not to mention that they will attack humans and livestock-at least they are good to eat. Let’s not have lions here unless they are on a securely fenced reserve, for breeding and looking at, please...
“I would have used that money much differently.”
Those guys think they are buying a set of cojones with it-a man secure in his masculinity doesn’t need to do that...
Black RINO ? Somebody killed Colon Blow ?
Read last night that Cecil’s brother Jericho had adopted his 4 cubs. Read this afternoon that Jericho was killed today. Poaching is wrong, but 1 out of 8 male lion cubs die within 2 years.
I’m more worried about God’s wrath because our nation allows child sacrifice.
Trump simply refers to them as "The Blacks", and claims he has a great relationship with them.
Go, Donald.
;-)
You are sooooooooo ...clever.
“Oh My God! The title and author of this piece is so blatantly racist! He calls the lion Cecil by name, but when talking about a BLACK Rhino, it’s just a damn Black Rhino”
Fortunately, the rhino was unarmed. Unlike our RINOs who are unbrained.
While I kinda agree that ‘lion-ranches’ in the US might help the population...can you imagine the anxiety in most American urban areas if you brought this up? Even if you went ultra-rural into Tennessee...someone would eventually make up a anti-lion-ranch measure and require millions in fencing to convince the public it was safe.
Even in Africa....if you consider that roughly 250 people a year die from Lion attacks....there’s not a thrilling amount of support from the local populations over lions expanding their base and population. If you merely doubled the current Lion population in Africa....you’d probably see well over 500...maybe even 800...people killed. Who wants that?
All of this hub-bub over a lion makes me think there is an agenda. Once I saw the Trump sons with their safari kills I thought that was it.
However, now I’m thinking it has to do with obamacare and the medical profession. Seriously. This guy a dentist, that other guy a gynocologist, etc.
[ While I kinda agree that ‘lion-ranches’ in the US might help the population...can you imagine the anxiety in most American urban areas if you brought this up? Even if you went ultra-rural into Tennessee...someone would eventually make up a anti-lion-ranch measure and require millions in fencing to convince the public it was safe.
Even in Africa....if you consider that roughly 250 people a year die from Lion attacks....there’s not a thrilling amount of support from the local populations over lions expanding their base and population. If you merely doubled the current Lion population in Africa....you’d probably see well over 500...maybe even 800...people killed. Who wants that? ]
Maybe a “Lion Island” would work better, take a Caribbean island that is more grassy than tree-ey and build a giant Lion habitat there, like Jurassic park...
Good thing lions can't swim.
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