[sickmint79]

Originally Posted by FT_86_SM_GP

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.
Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

i can understand skilled hunting, but even the wild lions don't seem like they'd be that hard to hunt, if they are big and far from you and generally not giving any shits about you. and they certainly aren't going to care about you if they've had their bellies pet most of their life. it is sad that anyone would choose to go out and kill them simply for trophy collecting with zero sport involved. at least other animals take skill (bird with gun, buck particularly with bow, etc.), and/or can be used for meat; not like anyone eats the lion either.

i can see the economic argument made for places to keep this cycle continuing - although it's probably quite questionable how much of this hunting economy actually trickles down to help those in poverty.

from your crime links it looks like i am going to a more murdery area... the actual spot is 2.5 hours out of durban, and barely has anything on tripadvisor... the city is ladysmith. open for things to do there, particularly since tripadvisor says there ain't much! could be a good thing if i'm stuck with a bunch of swedish girls though...

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