South Africa revisited! |
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So I’ve been a bit hard on the South African PH’s lately and as one of my subscribers put it, “do you have no shame!, your name is Swanepoel and you live in Cape Town?” In fact there has been such a hubbub recently over the issue of “canned” and “put and take” hunting that the industry stands on the verge of a tough legislative mountain. While I advocate that not enough dialogue was entered into between the Nature Conservation authorities and the well established hunting industry before the draft legislation was drawn up, I also firmly believe there was not enough self regulation on the part of the hunting industry. | ||||||||||||||||||||
here's a true story.... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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how the king of beasts was bagged.... | ||||||||||||||||||||
I’m standing in the darkness of the Kalahari dawn outside my clients chalet door. I’ve just come from seeing the ranch owner and have confirmed all is set, we are on track, the cat is ready for us. I confirmed again, as we had done the night before, this was the big male and that it was a black maned beast. The owner had looked at me wearily as he stirred sugar into his coffee, he had driven through the night to get here and now his look told me not to push any further on this issue, he had found the cat, it was ready what more did I want. | ||||||||||||||||||||
the whole truth .... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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In South Africa cats are bred, or should I say allowed to live and reach maturity for a purpose. They never know the true wild and their whole life has been controlled from birth by humans. We are their source of survival through our own greed and materialism. This is the power we exert over nature and its inhabitants for our own ends. The above story is true and I expect some will not agree with what I have said. However it is an undeniable fact! This does happen in South Africa, Namibia and to an extent Zimbabwe. I'm not judging anyone who has participated in such a hunt, I just believe that people should know what does happen! Pete Swanepoel jnr | ||||||||||||||||||||
"I speak of Africa and golden joys" ; the joy of wandering through lonely lands; the joy of hunting the mighty lords of the wilderness, the cunning, the wary, and the grim." Theodore Roosevelt - 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Past Article on Lion Hunting in South Africa
Since I wrote this article, and after having done one of these hunts with Sandhurst Safaris out of the Northwest Province, the son of the owner, Clayton Fletcher was arrested for being part of a massive Rhino horn poaching and smuggling ring!
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