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The royal took advantage of his VIP status in Pakistan
LINDSAY ABRAMS
Prince Fahd, the Instagram celebrity also known as @yolofahd, did some serious damage on a recent hunting expedition, managing during a 21-day killing spree to put a vulnerable species a few thousand deaths closer to extinction.
The Saudi royals trip to Chagai, Balochistan this past January landed him 1,977 rare houbara bustards, reports Dawn, Pakistans English-language newspaper. Other members of Fahds party managed to bag 123 more. According to a report prepared by the Balochistan Forest and Wildlife Department Visit of Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud regarding hunting of houbara bustard the prince hunted the birds for 15 days in the reserved and protected areas, poached birds in other areas for six days and took rest for two days.
Pakistans come under fire for issuing special permits to Arab rulers allowing them to hunt the birds, which are off-limits to Pakistani citizens. As the Guardian reported in February, VIP visitors from the Gulf enjoy their traditional hunts with falcons and believe the houbaras meat has aphrodisiac properties. This year, officials issued 33 permits to trigger-happy dignitaries, including the emirs of Kuwait and Qatar and the president of the United Arab Emirates, allowing them to kill up to 100 birds each.
Helped along by overhunting, the hourbaras population has fallen in recent decades; its considered to be at risk of extinction by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/saudi_prince_hunts_down_2100_protected_birds_in_21_days/
John1956PA
(2,655 posts)This following excerpt is from an article archived on the website for WTAE television in Pittsburgh, PA:
Published December 9, 2003.
The following statement by the Humane Society of the United States was e-mailed to ThePittsburghChannel.com on Tuesday afternoon {December 9, 2003}:
Monday's hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club places a spotlight on an increasingly popular and deplorable form of hunting, in which birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons. The ethics of these hunts are called into question by rank-and-file sportsmen, who hunt animals in their native habitat and do not shoot confined or pen-raised animals that cannot escape.
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More at the following link: http://www.wtae.com/Humane-Society-Statement/7714682#ixzz2zYdeKnYe
IronLionZion
(45,465 posts)some people just like to kill. These guys must be pro-life.
FarPoint
(12,411 posts)It was poisoning...at his wedding reception... Game of Thrones Season 4 episode 2.