The Head Hunters
Posted 11:40 am March 6th, 2007 by bama2
This photo supplied by the International Fund For Animal Welfare shows lions in cages at a breeding facility in the Orange free State province, South Africa in 2005 during part of an IFAW investigation into the captive breeding of the animals for canned hunts. South Africa’s environment minister announces new laws, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, to clamp down on the hunting of captive lions amid warnings from predator breeders that they may have to euthanize hundreds of the mighty beasts. (AP Photo/IFAW)
Would you be impressed by someone’s “trophy” head of a lion or other top predator animal from So Africa if you knew that person paid almost $20,000 to chase down an animal in a truck that had been raised in captivity? Otherwise known as a “canned” hunt, where animals are chased into exhaustion and then shot. The people providing the animals raise them in cages and continuously breed them by taking the babies away from the mothers as soon as possible. Females are usually destroyed because males are more valued as “trophies”.
They are trying to clean up this “sport” with new laws but the people who raise the animals are protesting with threats of killing all the animals on the “farms”. (google–So Africa hunting law)
I guess none of these people have seen “Born Free”. How very sad for the beautiful animals.
