Delta And American Airlines Ban Exotic Animal Trophy Shipments
brianlux
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I almost gave this thread the title, "You're just NOW doing this??" but I do want to give these airlines some credit for standing up and doing what I think is obviously the right thing here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/delta-bans-exotic-animal-trophies-after-cecil-the-lion_55bfa7fee4b0d4f33a0380ba?
"Delta is taking a stand against the slaughter of rare animals in Africa.
The airline announced on Monday that it would ban the shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.
The move comes weeks after Cecil, a popular male lion beloved by tourists and locals in Zimbabwe, was lured from a national park and killed by Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist and hunter. Last week, police received the big cat's decapitated head -- kept in the home of Theo Bronkhorst, one of the hunt's organizers -- before it could be shipped to Minnesota.
The killing sparked international outrage, prompting U.S. senators to draft a bill -- dubbed the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act -- to further restrict the import of hunting trophies.
Delta said it may extend the ban to cover other animals."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/delta-bans-exotic-animal-trophies-after-cecil-the-lion_55bfa7fee4b0d4f33a0380ba?
"Delta is taking a stand against the slaughter of rare animals in Africa.
The airline announced on Monday that it would ban the shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.
The move comes weeks after Cecil, a popular male lion beloved by tourists and locals in Zimbabwe, was lured from a national park and killed by Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist and hunter. Last week, police received the big cat's decapitated head -- kept in the home of Theo Bronkhorst, one of the hunt's organizers -- before it could be shipped to Minnesota.
The killing sparked international outrage, prompting U.S. senators to draft a bill -- dubbed the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act -- to further restrict the import of hunting trophies.
Delta said it may extend the ban to cover other animals."
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It's like me claiming, "Today, Jason P announces he will no longer stuff decapitated prostitutes in random freezers near underpasses".
Hurray!
Also, fuck Delta and American Airlines. They are the two worst airlines I've flown. They give two shits about the humans that fly them. I'm sure dead animals clock in around zero shits.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Some psychos will still find a way to get their gorilla hands back to their homes so they can have gorilla hands in their homes, but it's still a strong show of support for 99.999% of the population's sentiments for killing animals so you can put their head on a wall.
The big game hunting 'industry' is one thing pumping enough money in to give Africans the incentive to quell complete poaching/devastation. Its a catch 22. I dont like it, and dont understand the compulsion to kill a giraffe, lion, rhino on the verge of complete extinction, etc. Why cant rich people just pay for an all-inclusive safari/photo tour without the killing part? But at this point, until a new balance is figured out, it is kind of a necessary evil.
What we really need is for American Airlines and Delta to convince the Chinese that Rhinoceros and Elephant horns/tusks are not a miracle drug.
I know, sounds disgusting, right? Exactly.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Good to see you jumping in here and there again, by the way!
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Old, brave, daring Minnesota dentist, killer of lions, just needed to ride out the storm. Soon, he'll be able to have dinner parties where he can brag to dinner guests about his heroism as he faced the king of the jungle with his crossbow (he likely won't mention the dozen rifles sighted in on the animal if the idiot failed to stick his arrow into a vital spot). He couldn't fail. The guides set it up so that ultimately, the hunt was of the canned variety.
I'm being honest... I cheer for the animal in these situations. I wish so badly for the animal to get the upper hand in these 'hunts' and for the hunter to become the hunted and... get ready for this... the victim. Yup. F**k him. Psycho.
Go ahead and sell licenses to kill lions, but let's even the field a bit and make it somewhat of a challenge. There's a very real element of risk for climbers trying to climb K2 or Everest. There's not much risk baiting lions by trolling a dead animal behind armored vehicles until the lion appears investigating the smell of blood. No guides. Just idiots in tents. Shitting their pants the first night out when they hear that first roar that sounds as if it's right outside their tent.
64% of all African lions are killed by rich Americans that, I presume, get tired of shooting beer cans at the land fill with their machine guns and want to go shoot shit 'for real'.
Cool lion head, man.
If you weren't a f**king psycho... you'd realize a framed photo of the lion you watched in Africa would be infinitely cooler.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/29/rich-american-tourists-kill-hundreds-of-lions-each-year-and-its-all-legal/
What was that Rutger Hauer / Ice T movie in the 90's? About rich people paying to hunt people? I sometimes wonder how many trophy hunters would do this if they could get away with it.
Seriously.
Again, we could take this to the bigger picture- that humans tend to look at short term answers to solve long term problems at the expense of other life and natural resources. Is this not just delaying and eventually exacerbating an even greater problem?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I don't have an answer to that, but I can see the parallels with industries who bring business to 3rd world nations and offer jobs that are very, very low paying (by our standards). On the one hand, the wages are terrible. On the other, the company could just go somewhere else and then the people there would have nothing. I think to look at the long run, you have to often start with small progress.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.