10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2022
Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. A newly created U.S.
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Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. Apparently it isn't the first time the King has been shooting big game in Africa, or elsewhere (Apparently he killed a bear in Russia a few years ago too).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Elephant The big – two species of elephant are now recognized as occuring in Africa, the smaller and more secretive Forest Elephant and the larger, more familiar African or Bush Elephant.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
The answer should be obvious to anyone familiar with wildfowl hunting in the US and the film Jerry McGuire – money. If you want to have the “thrill” of shooting a wild lion (not a canned hunt), well, you’re going to need a lot of land to sustain those lions. Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2012
Okavango sunset Almost 40% of all land in Botswana is under conservation either as wilderness areas, game reserves or national parks. It is also home to the largest concentration of African Elephants on the planet and over 450 bird species. Few countries can boast the megafaunal diversity of the Okavango Delta.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2015
Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. Shot an elephant. For being a girl that beat a guy in a computer game. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. Go read his take. I’ll wait. .
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