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Uproar among professional hunters as some continue to embrace canned lion hunting

Nov 30, 2017 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: Lions, wildlife conservation Tagged: canned lion hunting, captive breeding, PHASA, professional hunters, trophy hunting

A split in the ranks as some professional hunters still side for canned lion hunting and the debate continues in South Africa. “Canned hunting is fake hunting for people who choose their victim on-line, pay a lot of money to execute it and then boast about their ‘achievement’.” These are the words of environmental attorney, Cormac Cullinan, following PHASA’s recent decision to permit the killing of captive-bred lions as a legitimate form of hunting. On the 22nd of November, members of the Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa (PHASA) voted at their AGM to reverse their policy against the hunting of…

Hwange Lion Killings Undermine Wildlife Conservation Efforts

May 17, 2017 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: All Posts, conservation, Human Wildlife Conflict, Lions, wildlife conservation Tagged: Conservation Action Trust, human-wildlife conflict, hunting, Hwange, Oscar Nkala, predator conflict, professional hunters

With the numbers ever decreasing lion killings by farmers and villagers continue in Zimbabwe and other African countries. Two endangered lionesses were killed after being lured out of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe to a hunting trap set up using meat from a cow they allegedly killed the previous night. One of the two lionesses was reportedly pregnant when she was gunned down. The shooting took place within 60km of the spot where the iconic lion Cecil was killed by hunter Theo Bronkhorst and his American hunter-client, Dr Walter Palmer on July 1, 2015. Hwange-based lion researcher Brent Stapelkamp said…

The Hunter Becomes the Hunted, Kendall Jones

Aug 1, 2014 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: All Posts, Canned hunting, conservation, endangered, Lions, Nikela Volunteer, wild animals, wildlife conservation Tagged: buffalo, canned hunting, elephant, hippo, hunted, Hunter, Kendall Jones, Leopard, lion, petitions to stop canned hunting, professional hunters, Raven Nero, rhino, trophy hunting

A US citizen reacts to seeing, reading about teen hunter Kendall Jones. We wondered what regular folk thought about Texas’ teen huntress. When one of our new volunteers expressed absolute dismay we asked her to jot down her thoughts… by doing so she learned a most valuable lesson. What a fellow US citizen has to say about Kendall Jones Recently, I came across the story on the news about Kendall Jones, the young lady who has been making trips to Africa to kill endangered species in effort of conservation. I was completely flabbergasted. My first thought was ”How on Earth…

Rhino Fridays – Killers on Trial

Jul 18, 2014 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: Animal Poaching, Rhino Tagged: Ayesha Cantor, black rhino, court cases, Dawie Groenewald, OSCAP, Out of Africa Adventurous Safaris, professional hunters, Rhino Friday, rhino poachers, trials, white rhino

Each Friday Ayesha Cantor reports on pertinent rhino issues in Rhino Friday. Greed! Power! Fraud, and many dead Rhino! May justice prevail! Compliments of Ayesha Cantor and her series Rhino Friday. (The contributor is solely responsible for the following content) RHINO FRIDAY (611 rhino lost this year to date according to OSCAP) Do you remember where you were or what you were doing when aeroplanes hit the Twin Towers, the Boxing Day Tsunami, when Lady Diana died etc…. ? I remember clearly, four years ago, driving into the Kruger National Park , the start of a much anticipated holiday, the…