could not agree more

Stop poaching...world wide.

they make it sound like it's an 'African' problem ,

Already Safari Club International is pressuring airlines not to embargo planes transporting trophies

http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/07/28/south-african-airways-lifts-ban-hunting-trophies/

forward easier and more likely.

people can be compassionate about many different issues at the same time.

this "you can't be outraged over animal cruelty as long as there are injustices against humans" meme is getting tired.

Just pointing out a sad bit of irony (or hypocrisy).

on rereading, it looks like you were referring to the plight of gay people in that country.

didn t mean to kneejerk. there have been so many comments like "you can't be upset about animal cruelty because (human group) has been (injustice)." it was getting tiring.

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He was also a Doctor and belonged to the Safari International club and the Boone and Crockett club. Over the years he filled our house, cellar and office with trophies. I called it the "dead zoo"as a young girl. One bear he shot was displayed in the Museum of Natural History in N.Y. because it was so large and an award winning trophy. When he passed away, he left me some trophies but gave most away to other people. (Thank Goddess.) He also "murdered" an elephant and brought home tusks and had foot stools made out of it's feet and also an cocktail tray. He had it's penis (inside bone)made into a cane. He killed a walrus and I have an "ozic" large club like bone from it's penis. I have earrings and bracelet also made from that bone and he had half of the animals mounted to display on walls. He killed a polar bear and my brother has that rug. He killed a lion and had it's testicals made into cocktail cups. He killed a tiger and a leopard (I have those mounts) and I've named them Cleo and Anthony and they are positioned in my house looking out the window to the lush backyard for them to "look" at. We love and honor them.( Doc didn't like me or cats because I didn't like his murderous hunting). He killed and had trophies mounted of a Musk Ox, kangaroo,water buffalo, seal, moose, caribou, elk, 3 zebras, an iguana, many antler bearing animals, a mountain goat and too many more to mention. As a child, I was forced to watch 16 millimeter films of the many "hunts' and how they took their skins off. I still have nightmares, especially now with these 2 other trophy hunting doctors in the news. We were forced at dinner to eat some of these animals' meat. I haven't eaten any meat in 39 years. I hope those doctors are sent to prison in Africa for a long time. I hesitated in writing all this but I needed to express my disgust for trophy hunting.

Grew up hunting and know a lot of hunters. None of them were trophy hunters, all hunted for food. None of us understood the trophy hunting. Always figured it was for people with way too much money/time on their hands who didn't have anything better to do with it.

was your father by chance related to this person:

Doc had more trophies but he never killed a giraffe....probably because our ceilings were so low. I notice the trophy wife in this picture...proud of her "man". Thank you for understanding the horror of it all.

There are game farms that raise animals who are so used to humans that they don't run when they're released. They just walk out of the cage and look at you as you shoot it. Those are the "hunts" that guarantee a trophy.

there is no hunting involved for these psycho scumbags

these are dangerous people and should be carefully watched. And in the big picture they should be held accountable the same as if they were actually shooting people.

Ideas anybody.

something about killing things. Sometime ago a workman here said he was saving to go to Africa and kill elephants, apparently a company thing I guess. We dropped them as a vendor.

i do think it is a combination of having a lot of disposable income with the so called God complex.

He also bought nearly a million dollars worth of illegal, unapproved cancer drugs a couple years ago. Fined $100,000. and had to take out 2 ads advising people the dangers of buying drugs w/out FDA approval.

Scum. of. the. earth.

international outrage DOES work!

We can only hope that there might be something good that comes out of this.

While it might be a source of revenue, it's not that large a source of revenue. Eco tourism of the "take only pictures, leave only footprints" type might be better once they get rid of the guys with the guns.

I would love it if Palmer were extradited. At least one 1%er would have to face the justice system instead of using his (wife's) money to escape it.

There will always be poachers and the "hunters" will just pay that much more for the "thrill" of big-game hunting.

If none of it is legal then they have to smuggle the grisly shit and won't be able to display it openly. Drives up the cost and reduces the reward..