17 Sep 2003

You can help ban canned lion hunting in South Africa.
lion cubsExcerpt from Kalahari Raptor Centre:
South Africa is a hunter’s paradise. But for the animals, South Africa is Hell on Earth.

  • The hunting of large predators by bow and arrow. Arrows kill by causing bleeding, and so most animals shot with arrows will take a long time to die. Some websites reveal that tame lions are routinely hunted with dogs – and then killed by bow and arrow while cornered by the dog pack.
  • safari

  • The power to certify that the target animal has been “rehabilitated to wild status” is given not to skilled rehabilitators, as one would expect, but to notoriously incompetent and hunting-orientated provincial nature conservation officials who have no knowledge of, or training in, the science of wildlife rehabilitation. Presumably any animal that does not jump up onto the official’s lap and lick his face will automatically be certified ‘wild’.
  • a lion in captivity

  • The extension of captive breeding and hunting not only to lions but also to other large predators, including endangered species such as wild dogs.
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  • Wildlife sanctuaries will continue to be prohibited. This means that cruelty to animals is permitted, but kindness is not. This is not conservation. It is grotesque. There are no regulations whatsoever on the minimum size of cages or any other aspect of the welfare of captive animals. For example, everyone knows of the terrible practice of captive breeders in taking the cubs away from the mother to bring her back into oestrus quicker so that she breeds faster. This is both cruel and unnatural and one witnesses lionesses, mouths bleeding from biting at the sharp wire fencing, trying to get to their crying cubs in a pitiful and pathetic attempt to obey their natural protective instincts.

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