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Originally Posted by sickmint79
so apparently 60 minutes ran an episode last night (going to try and watch it online) that exposed the lion park directly/indirectly funneling older cats into hunting grounds.
the place that organized my 'volunteer' program said the lion camp still has it but they are offering me to do others - i am going to do one that is based on training and reintroducing cheetahs about 2.5 hours outside of durban.
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Thats cool man, Watched the video....
Sad indeed, Iv been to the Lion park in the video and to many game reserves where older lions are let loose (And where hunting occurs).
I have never hunted, and never will - Im against that crap, but some of my close friends do,(They hunt mostly buck...not Lions) and they really love what they do.
I don't really understand the thrill they get, but it seems they have the mind-set of hunting your own meat.
On their first kill, they are required(by tradition) to immediately eat the bucks liver (Raw).
Allot of people get emotional about hunting etc, but eat meat in their daily lives. Doesn't make sense as animals are killed.
There is no good way of killing animals. Death is Death.
With regards to the South African game park industry, it is huge.
It stimulates our weak economy.
Well bred game animals auction for allot of money, Eg. a single well bred Buffalo, sold last year in an auction for around
$2mil.
A grown Lion costs less than $2000.
and the reason for this is exactly as the video said...its a financial loss having a Lion in your park, because it needs meat of other animals, which are really expensive.
South Africa has its own issues to deal with, around 50 people are murdered in South Africa
each day...17 Lion murders a year...isn't on Governments priority list.
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_South_Africa"]Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
I don't agree with the guys message on the youtube video... to STOP visiting Lion parks.
In a country that has over
10mil people living in extreme poverty (ie. that don't have food on a daily basis)...crying over 17 lives when millions of other lives are being lost... is petty.
(Shows the misdirection of peoples concerns)
http://www.southafrica.info/about/so...m#.VH_b_9XF8ig
Don't get me wrong, I'm
not endorsing hunting Lions
Fact of life ...is that we all came from ancestors that hunted.
Looks like those people that made the video - created a dramatized story to save the lions. and thats great
But,
That man telling people to
stop visiting lion parks should man the f#ck up.
Theres ways to work around issues like this, Eg. fighting for these types of hunting to be illegal. Don't tell people to stop visiting game parks.
And if you want to hunt a Lion ...it should be a fair fight,
No guns
Just you and the Lion
Enjoy South Africa man @sickmint79