All those LWLs who screamed about Cecil, here’s your response…
One of Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife reserves, the Bubye Valley Conservancy, recently announced that it was considering culling up to 200 lions as the cats have become increasingly overpopulated. The wildlife reserve said its current population of around 500 lions is unsustainable due to the dramatic decline in hunters, possibly caused by the controversy over Cecil, a lion killed near Hwange National Park last year. Bubye officials say that without hunters to help manage the lion population, they are considering either hiring marksmen to shoot some of the animals, or capturing them and donating the cats to other reserves. Bubye has historically held one of the largest lion populations in Zimbabwe.
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Hunters traditionally helped to keep lion numbers in check, as well as bringing a much needed financial boost to the park. However, officials are now blaming something they call the “Cecil effect” for the lack of hunters. In 2015, the hunting of a black-maned lion named Cecil by an American dentist, Walter Palmer, drew international outrage after the Zimbabwe government accused Palmer of poaching. The charges were later dropped, but activist groups continued to target big game hunters in Africa and urged many governments, including Zimbabwe, to close their borders to hunters. This is despite the fact that many conservationists have long agreed that hunters are needed to not only manage wildlife populations, but also provide the funds to protect the same species they hunt.
Read the whole thing HERE, at Outdoor Hub.
You’ve taken food out of peoples mouths, cost folks their jobs, and have put the Conservancy in the position of having to KILL two hundred lions.
Proud of yourselves yet???
It would be nice if folks would actually do a bit of research, rather than trusting a 30 sec sound bite and immediately going off the deep end.
OBTW, are any of you lefties donating any money to make up the losses your actions have caused? I’m betting not. I’m betting you’ve completely forgotten what you did, or even why, or who Palmer was…
Sigh…
There must be some mugabe can make some more dollars out of this to put in his own pockets.
They never want to pay for what they’ve done. But I am sure you knew that already.
I’d really like a lion skin rug…I wonder if I could sign on as a marksman?
Ed- Oh yeah…
McT- Sadly true.
LL- For $50K, they’d be HAPPY for you to be one… sigh
We’ve noticed for years that the Leftists/SJWs/insert Prog group here have a real knack for unintended (negative) consequences. Comes from knee-jerk reactions substituted for thought.
Doesn’t make it any easier to stomach.
Palmer, that’s the golf guy, right?
Seriously, this is the same situation that we see with the deer population in the Northeast USA. Places where there is no legal culling (except by car) results in the overpopulation of yard-rats and the spread of deer-related diseases.
Rev- Very true!
Andrew- Exactly, and the deer are dying of malnutrition and disease, but that’s ignored!
The saviors of the world are ignorant of cause and effect.
Back in the ’70s there was a widespread campaign against veal, deploring it as inhumane to slaughter such a young calf. On dairy farms, farmers kept the female calves as future milkers but sold the male ones when they reached market weight. The boycott meant no one could sell the male calves. Farmers couldn’t afford to feed the male calves so when a male calf was born, my brothers and I would walk the calf outside, shoot it, and throw it on the manure pile for the vultures (we didn’t have a backhoe). Every dairy farmer we knew had a .22 in the barn for that purpose.
As we all know, LWL’s and SJW’s define the class of people who define the statement “People Unclear On The Concept”….
It’s not about doing anything useful. It’s about making others feel guilty, so they can feel superior to someone.
+1
Suz
It is horrible that someone would hunt and kill a lion for its fur or head. They should buy them at a taxidermy shop like the rest of us.
Al- Didn’t know that, and that was costly, to put it mildly!
drjim- There is that… sigh
RS/Suz- Good point!
CP- ROTF… Stop it… 🙂
LOL, I remember in CT when I was stationed up there in 94-95, yes, two years up there I had enough of that crap. They opened up a Deer season at a local state park because there were so many deer populating the area in New London and Groton that deer were eating and rummaging through people trash for food. I am not KIDDING!!!!!
The same thoughtless policies can be seen with the wild horses of the west, or the elk herds in Yellowstone…
But, but…
Lions are CUTE!
Didn’t you see The Lion King?
And deer? Bambi?
Unintended consequences, indeed!
I blame Walt Disney – he even made mice cute!
gfa
As some one who has supported the wildlife of Africa (by hunting it), I find it amazing that people don’t understand the concept of; “If it pays, it stays.”
Sad to see Zimbabwe come to this. Zim is special to me and I love the country and the people (both the Whites and the Blacks). I much prefer it over Tanzania, South Africa or Mozambique.
These media whores only care about their 30 second sound bites fame