Posted on 11/20/2013 9:56:55 AM PST by Impala64ssa
More than 250,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that South Africa deny future entry to Melissa Bachman, a big game hunter whose smiling photo with a dead lion has sparked considerable outrage.
The petition, launched by Cape Town resident Elan Burman, includes a letter addressed to Director General Mkuseli Apleni and other South African officials.
"She is an absolute contradiction to the culture of conservation this country prides itself on," Burman wrote. "Her latest Facebook post features her with a lion she has just executed and murdered in our country. As taxpayers we demand she no longer be granted access to this country and its natural resources."
According to Change.org, Burman's petition has 257,753 supporters. A Facebook group called "Stop Melissa Bachman" has more than 148,000 "likes."
"Stop the murder of wildlife for the sport," a message on the group's Facebook page reads. "Stop Melissa Bachman and people like her from pulling the trigger.
"An incredible day hunting in South Africa!" Bachman, a Minnesota native, wrote on Facebook and Twitter Nov. 1. "Stalked inside 60 yards on this beautiful male lion ... what a hunt!"
Big game hunting in Africa has long been criticized by animal rights activists, but proponents say the money hunters spend during their trips boosts the local economy, and supports conservation projects.
According to Grind TV, Bachman killed the lion during a guided hunt facilitated by the Maroi Conservancy. And according to Maroi, the hunt was perfectly legal.
“We do ethical hunting and all meat from animals hunted is distributed to the local community," a post on Maroi's Facebook page reads. "Funds generated from hunting goes towards fixing the border fence that was washed away in the 2013 floods, combating poaching, which is excessive in this area due to close proximity to Zimbabwe,
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Kind of hard to oppose abortion when you place an animal's life above a humans isn't it? Perhaps you're not pro-life so please ignore.
I love my guns but could never imagine killing a lion, tiger or elephant. Almost criminal IMO.
Hunt inner city ferals.....then you will earn points in my book.
If that type of moronic thinking prevailed no great creatures would be left on the planet.
If you are a Christian, why on earth would you say you would rather have the lion track her? It wouldn’t be tracking her unless it was expecting to eat her. Sad!
That lion is no predator when she is sitting off in the distance with a rifle and a 30x scope.
Now inner cities have true predators.
I feel the same way.
About what?
“Why? You seem to be a reasonable and logical person. What is your logic here?”
She is way too happy killing that majestic beast and I wish he could get up and leave the boob job (definition of “boob”: a stupid person; fool; dunce). I have no logic for my opinion except it hurts to see that dead lion.
At 60 yds. with a 30 power scope she wouldn’t even
be able to find the lion.
That lion could cover the 60 yds in a couple of bounds.
Trophy hunting isn’t my sport.
I kill to survive.
What, another impala eater? I’m guessing it is a close relative in the impala family. I can see it is at least a young adult, in so far as it has horns, I don’t think they’re antlers.
Killing for a “trophy” ain’t a sport.
“why on earth would you say you would rather have the lion track her? It wouldn’t be tracking her unless it was expecting to eat her.”
The point is, the lion had no chance with her rifle scope and distance the rifle would fire. Put her out there without a rifle and then they are on equal par, tracking each other.
I see videos of trophy hunters killing elephants and it literally makes me sick. How can one justify that? The elephant cannot run and attack nor run and hide.
“I see videos of trophy hunters killing elephants and it literally makes me sick.”
Seeing the dead lion wasn’t my happiest moment of the day, either.
"The mosquito's a clever little bastard. You can track him for days and days until you really get to know him like a friend. He knows you're there, and you know he's there. It's a game of wits. You hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him."
"Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles."
"A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that?"
The same logic applies to lions. For all intents and purposes they cannot run and attack as the people hunting them are at a safe distance.
That is so far out in ‘left’ field I don’t know where to begin. I am glad God gave us brains to use I wish more people would use them.
I’d never heard of it before, called a Dik Dik.
Tiny little things.
At 60 yards that lion could cover that distance in less than three seconds so it had a good chance of killing her if that makes you feel better.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.