article thumbnail

Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Their relentless slaughter for ivory and trophies diminished the population from tens of millions to the less than 500,000 existing today.

Buffalo 195
article thumbnail

On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies. By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain?

Animal 100
article thumbnail

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. A newly created U.S. But I digress.

Hunting 108