Posted on 08/04/2015 5:24:04 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
NEW YORK -- Three U.S. airlines have banned the transport of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo killed by trophy hunters, in the latest fallout from the killing of Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion last month.
American Airlines said today it would join Delta Airlines and United Airlines in banning the transport of animals known in Africa as the “big five," coined by hunters because they are the hardest to kill on foot.
There has been an international outcry against trophy hunting among animal lovers since it emerged that American dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil, a rare black-maned lion that was a familiar sight at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.
Delta Air Lines Inc, the only American airline to fly directly between the United States and Johannesburg, will also review policies on accepting other hunting trophies with government agencies and other organizations that support legal shipments, it said.
Even before the killing of Cecil the lion, campaigners had called for major cargo airlines to halt shipments of endangered species killed by trophy hunters.
Nearly 400,000 people signed a Change.org petition that was started by a Delta customer calling for the airline to stop transporting exotic hunting trophies, the organization said.
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Do these 3 major airlines donate to Planned Parenthood? Are they only outraged by "trophy hunting"? Is baby butchering ok?
I try not to shoot anything that won’t fit under the seat in front of me or in the overhead compartment.
Its the giraffe hunting that’s unfair.....
Ya know they can’t hide!!!
Another example of mass hysteria leading people to act irrationally. They don’t think. They jump on the bandwagon and follow the crowd.
How about the airlines refusing to transport baby
parts? No! that would anger the feminazis and the airlines would lose a few dollars.
I am confused, what about monkeys? don’t they carry ebola?
I have another question for them. Do they enjoy those Sally Struthers commercials with the starving kids? Hunters leave a lot of money over there. They want to add to the high unemployment they already suffer from.
Wonder if they would stop shipping baby parts if we got a petition started and maybe 20 million signed it?
You are joking, right?/s
Exactly. The airlines are literally starving kids in Africa as they deny countries the hefty fees that they charge the hunters.
I wonder how many dead baby parts the airlines haul.
I was watching “Mountain Men” on Animal Planet the over the weekend, a show where hunting and trapping are a way of life for most of the participants. Up pops a little box at the bottom of the screen stating that Animal Planet was saddened over the death of Cecil the Lion, and that trophy hunting was destroying populations and bad for the environment.
Stupid’s.
Not sure they would stop shipping baby parts. baal/molech need those blood sacrifices daily.
I’m gonna bet they haul plenty.
I work in a tertiary care hospital that does tranplants. We frequently get tissue shipments to our OR (heart valves, etc) that are labeled “USAirways”
I think there’s a bill in progress to outlaw any imports of trophy hunts. Zimbabwe better think twice about charging the doctor.
These Awwww it’s so cute idiots will be the first ones to kill somebody for their food when crap hits the fan.
Freakin funny
We’re even, I quit flying about 12 years ago and will not ever again.
My former boss used to trophy hunt in Africa. He never ponied up the money for an elephant or a lion, but he shot lots of odd gazelles, sheep, and I think an orangutan...and lots of other small stuff.
His ‘trophies’ had to be preserved in Africa for at least a year, prior to being shipped here - to prevent spread of strange diseases.
He hunted in South Africa. Typically his guide would take the animal and his family would process the meat for sale, so the meat isn’t wasted. For poor parts of Africa, its a money making scheme - they charge fees to hunt these animals, and then get the meat. If westerners weren’t paying to hunt these animals, the South Africans would just hunt them themselves, for the meat.
Sounds like this dentist and/or his guides may have lured this lion out of a sanctuary - not good. But no reason for an international outcry or U.S. government intervention.
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