"The overseas hunter fired another shot. She slumped to the ground in a crumpled heap. Both times, the hunter shot from a vehicle. He then posed with the dead lioness and pulled at her mouth to show her teeth."
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
What we're about....
What we're about
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Welcome to the website of THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANNED HUNTING and THE KOUGA WILDLIFE REHAB CENTRE & SANCTUARY
The Campaign Against Canned Hunting (CACH), is a registered Section 21 charity (2006/036885/08) and Public Benefit organisation. PBO number: 930030402The overall aim of the organisation is to promote animal welfare but for practical and historic reasons, CACH focuses on the following issues:-
BAN TROPHY HUNTING
The mission is to get all trophy hunting banned in South Africa, since all trophy hunting in South Africa is canned to a greater or lesser extent. To that end, CACH has put together a comprehensive audio visual presentation which has been shown to thousands of people from all walks of life in South Africa, Kenya and U.K. Find out more about this issue.
BAN GIN TRAPS
The on going indiscriminate slaughter of wild animals by farmers acting in the belief that they are protecting their livestock is a major threat to wildlife. Non lethal alternatives are available and CACH has actively promoted the banning of gin traps and the abolition of the vermin laws in South Africa, both by legal proceedings all the way to the Constitutional Court, and by animal advocacy in the media. Find out more about this issue.
KOUGA WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE & SANCTUARY
The Kouga Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (KWRC)is a project of CACH and its aim is to work hands on with orphaned and injured wild animals at the sanctuary in the Kouga Mountains. Forming part of the vast Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve, which stretches from Addo Elephant Park near Port Elizabeth to the Tsitsikama Forest in the east, the centre is ideally situated to release all endemic species back to the wild on its own door step. Find out more about the sanctuary.http://www.cannedlion.org/
Monday, May 7, 2012
Louisiana § 115. Possession of Potentially Dangerous Wild Quadrupeds, Big Exotic Cats, and Non-Human Primates
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Louisiana § 115. Possession of Potentially Dangerous Wild Quadrupeds, Big Exotic Cats, and Non-Human Primates
Louisiana § 115. Possession of Potentially Dangerous Wild Quadrupeds, Big Exotic Cats, and Non-Human Primates
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Animal Advocates Gain Formal Protection for African Antelopes Captive and Trophy-Hunted in U.S. - WildEarth Guardians
Animal Advocates Gain Formal Protection for African Antelopes Captive and Trophy-Hunted in U.S.
Animal Advocates Gain Formal Protection for African Antelopes Captive and Trophy-Hunted in U.S.
Washington, DC – This week marks the conclusion of a long trek to important protection for African antelopes living in the United States. Three African antelope species living in U.S. zoos and on Texas ranches finally have the same protections under the Endangered Species Act as their wild counterparts in Africa.
The publication of a new rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service is the culmination of more than a decade of effort by Friends of Animals to protect scimitar-horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelles. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will now protect all members of these three species as “endangered”—including those bred in the U.S. and sold for sport-hunting.
These antelope communities are critically endangered in their home territories in northern Africa, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. The addax and dama gazelles are nearly wiped out, and scimitar-horned oryx would be virtually extinct, if not for Friends of Animals’ work in protecting them and augmenting their numbers in Senegal. Yet more of these antelopes live on Texas hunting ranches, where they are bred and hunted, than in the wild in Africa.
As early as 1991, the scimitar-horned oryx, dama gazelle, and addax were proposed for ESA protection. Friends of Animals went to the desert of Senegal, Africa, to help the rare antelopes regain footing in their own habitat. In addition, Friends of Animals, with the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, sued the federal government to list the these antelopes as “endangered” under U.S. law. In September 2005, the FWS did list the three species as “endangered,” noting that desertification, human encroachment, ranching, regional military activity, and hunting imperil these antelopes.
Yet on the same date, the FWS published an exception to the rule removing take and transport prohibitions from the very animals that the United States has the strongest power to protect—those kept by U.S. enterprises. For live antelopes, embryos, gametes, and “sport-hunted trophies” of these three species on U.S. soil, the blanket exemption authorized killing, commercial transport, and interstate or foreign commerce.
All three groups of antelope are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, prohibiting international transport of listed animals (dead, alive, or parts). Shooting these antelopes in Africa and bringing trophies into the U.S. would be illegal. Yet under the exemption, killing them in the U.S. was legal.
Lee Hall, Vice President of Legal Affairs for Friends of Animals, lauded the new rule, saying, “At last these antelopes are free from being handled and killed for kicks. This protects three communities of North African antelopes from being transplanted to or bred into exploitive captivity, and stalked because of their remarkably graceful horns.”
With the blanket exemption in place, a lucrative industry in hunting “popular exotics” and supplying feed, fencing, and taxidermy has continued to operate. FWS accepted arguments that hunting is good for antelope because it provides an incentive for maintaining their populations.
Hall continued, “The publication of this rule ends the preposterous legal fiction that canned hunting ranches protect and propagate endangered species when in reality they are pimping members of species just barely hanging onto life on Earth—in effect, exploiting the ‘endangered’ classification for profit.”
Advocates Strike Back
A court case brought by Friends of Animals and WildEarth Guardians in 2009 challenged the loophole and secured a court order finding that the exemption violated Section 10 of the ESA by letting canned hunting ranches “harm, harass, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” members of endangered species. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. called blanket exemptions “anathema” to the ESA, and in June 2009 remanded the rule to the FWS for the appropriate change. Change has now come.
“This success is a step forward for all endangered species,” said Taylor Jones, Endangered Species Advocate for WildEarth Guardians. “The ESA is a powerful law, but it cannot work as it was meant to if exemptions are freely granted for any species hunters might want to hang on their wall.”
The pro-hunting Safari Club, represented by house attorney Anna Seidman, wants to set aside the new rule and give tourists the legal prerogative to pay $3,500 or more to kill the 2,000-plus captive antelopes still alive on U.S. ranches.
Friends of Animals’ Lee Hall counters: “While the Endangered Species Act does allow, for example, some movement of listed animals for science-related reasons or to enhance the propagation or survival of the animals—contingent on a public feedback process for each good-faith application—it is not meant to authorize sport-hunting.”
“Hunting these antelopes is no way to save them or treat them with dignity; nor is it a dignified interpretation of the Endangered Species Act,” Hall stated.
Animal Advocates Gain Formal Protection for African Antelopes Captive and Trophy-Hunted in U.S.
Captive antelopes now have the same protections under the Endangered Species Act as their wild counterparts in Africa.
Additional Contact: Lee Hall, Friends of Animals: (610) 964-0090 or leehall@friendsofanimals.orgWashington, DC – This week marks the conclusion of a long trek to important protection for African antelopes living in the United States. Three African antelope species living in U.S. zoos and on Texas ranches finally have the same protections under the Endangered Species Act as their wild counterparts in Africa.
The publication of a new rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service is the culmination of more than a decade of effort by Friends of Animals to protect scimitar-horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelles. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will now protect all members of these three species as “endangered”—including those bred in the U.S. and sold for sport-hunting.
These antelope communities are critically endangered in their home territories in northern Africa, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. The addax and dama gazelles are nearly wiped out, and scimitar-horned oryx would be virtually extinct, if not for Friends of Animals’ work in protecting them and augmenting their numbers in Senegal. Yet more of these antelopes live on Texas hunting ranches, where they are bred and hunted, than in the wild in Africa.
As early as 1991, the scimitar-horned oryx, dama gazelle, and addax were proposed for ESA protection. Friends of Animals went to the desert of Senegal, Africa, to help the rare antelopes regain footing in their own habitat. In addition, Friends of Animals, with the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, sued the federal government to list the these antelopes as “endangered” under U.S. law. In September 2005, the FWS did list the three species as “endangered,” noting that desertification, human encroachment, ranching, regional military activity, and hunting imperil these antelopes.
Yet on the same date, the FWS published an exception to the rule removing take and transport prohibitions from the very animals that the United States has the strongest power to protect—those kept by U.S. enterprises. For live antelopes, embryos, gametes, and “sport-hunted trophies” of these three species on U.S. soil, the blanket exemption authorized killing, commercial transport, and interstate or foreign commerce.
All three groups of antelope are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, prohibiting international transport of listed animals (dead, alive, or parts). Shooting these antelopes in Africa and bringing trophies into the U.S. would be illegal. Yet under the exemption, killing them in the U.S. was legal.
Lee Hall, Vice President of Legal Affairs for Friends of Animals, lauded the new rule, saying, “At last these antelopes are free from being handled and killed for kicks. This protects three communities of North African antelopes from being transplanted to or bred into exploitive captivity, and stalked because of their remarkably graceful horns.”
With the blanket exemption in place, a lucrative industry in hunting “popular exotics” and supplying feed, fencing, and taxidermy has continued to operate. FWS accepted arguments that hunting is good for antelope because it provides an incentive for maintaining their populations.
Hall continued, “The publication of this rule ends the preposterous legal fiction that canned hunting ranches protect and propagate endangered species when in reality they are pimping members of species just barely hanging onto life on Earth—in effect, exploiting the ‘endangered’ classification for profit.”
Advocates Strike Back
A court case brought by Friends of Animals and WildEarth Guardians in 2009 challenged the loophole and secured a court order finding that the exemption violated Section 10 of the ESA by letting canned hunting ranches “harm, harass, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” members of endangered species. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. called blanket exemptions “anathema” to the ESA, and in June 2009 remanded the rule to the FWS for the appropriate change. Change has now come.
“This success is a step forward for all endangered species,” said Taylor Jones, Endangered Species Advocate for WildEarth Guardians. “The ESA is a powerful law, but it cannot work as it was meant to if exemptions are freely granted for any species hunters might want to hang on their wall.”
The pro-hunting Safari Club, represented by house attorney Anna Seidman, wants to set aside the new rule and give tourists the legal prerogative to pay $3,500 or more to kill the 2,000-plus captive antelopes still alive on U.S. ranches.
Friends of Animals’ Lee Hall counters: “While the Endangered Species Act does allow, for example, some movement of listed animals for science-related reasons or to enhance the propagation or survival of the animals—contingent on a public feedback process for each good-faith application—it is not meant to authorize sport-hunting.”
“Hunting these antelopes is no way to save them or treat them with dignity; nor is it a dignified interpretation of the Endangered Species Act,” Hall stated.
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Friends of Animals, an animal advocacy organization founded in 1957, advocates for the rights of animals to live free, on their own terms:
WildEarth Guardians works to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American West:
STOP CANNED HUNTING!! - - Live Fearlessly, Compassionately and Honestly
CANNED HUNTING MAKES DREAMS COME TRUE
"The overseas hunter fired another shot. She slumped to the ground in a crumpled heap. Both times, the hunter shot from a vehicle. He then posed with the dead lioness and pulled at her mouth to show her teeth."
The Blah Blah Blah Hunting Lodge advertises that their hunting adventure:
".... allows the opportunity to hunt and harvest the Trophy Zebra you'll want to hang on your wall...this hunt will offer 100% opportunity for a Mature Zebra. Year round, we offer hunts for beautiful Grants Zebra. There are no seasonal restrictions on hunting the Zebra in Texas, which makes it a suitable trophy year round."
( I guess the new word for kill is "harvest" .... )
Canned hunting seems so obviously wrong that it feels almost silly making that point. Hunters I know would never go to a commercial lodge where animals had been stocked like fish in a pond and where the grounds are fenced. There's no real challenge. It's not 'real' hunting. It's disgraceful. The whole thing is a barbaric, inhumane way to make money and be entertained at the great expense of amazing wild creatures. "Harvesting" animals on canned hunts should not only be illegal it should be viewed as horrendously shameful.
OP CANNED HUNTING!! - - Live Fearlessly, Compassionately and Honestly
"The bullet slammed into the lioness and she spun into the air, falling against the electric fence behind which she was confined. Standing on the other side of the fence were her three young cubs - she had been separated from them an hour earlier.
"The overseas hunter fired another shot. She slumped to the ground in a crumpled heap. Both times, the hunter shot from a vehicle. He then posed with the dead lioness and pulled at her mouth to show her teeth."
collage by Betsy Seeton showing various hunters in the United States with their trophy kills from canned hunting lodges
This is how Gareth Patterson described a scene that some of you will recognise from The Cook Report TV documentary on canned hunting. (Source
captiveanimals.org) But you don't have to go to Africa to kill the animals of your dreams. You can do it right here in America. There are over 1000 canned hunting sites available for your killing pleasure in the U.S. All kinds of rare, exotic animals are fenced in on commercial hunting grounds that you can shoot just about any which way you choose -- for a price. Zebras cost somewhere around $4,500 to put a bullet through. Lodging costs are on top of the kill price. Killing a Transcaspian Urial Sheep will set you back upwards of around $17,000 while a Siberian Ibex is more than $19,000.
The Blah Blah Blah Hunting Lodge advertises that their hunting adventure:
".... allows the opportunity to hunt and harvest the Trophy Zebra you'll want to hang on your wall...this hunt will offer 100% opportunity for a Mature Zebra. Year round, we offer hunts for beautiful Grants Zebra. There are no seasonal restrictions on hunting the Zebra in Texas, which makes it a suitable trophy year round."
( I guess the new word for kill is "harvest" .... )
I grew up eating elk and venison my entire childhood courtesy of my father who was an avid big game hunter. My brothers and I, along with my mother, helped pack out the meat from the forest and my father gutted/cleaned and packaged the meat in our basement using a band saw. But one thing he would never do, and would never support, is canned hunting. He hunted to put food on our table. He loved the hunt. He really did. But he told me if he had money he would not have hunted. He did it to provide for his family. He would not have done it for the joy of killing.
The caption for this posting is what some or even most canned hunters feel. Trophy hunters often have their wish list -- a bucket list if you will -- of animals they want to kill during their lifetime. I cannot fathom this mindset.
Canned hunters must have a perverted sense of joy and twisted sense of accomplishment along with what I can only describe as scary egos. These exotic animals are transported from their natural habitat and some are farm raised to continue the species for future hunting. They are on grounds that have fences. They are not living a natural life and they die a quite unnatural death. I will never understand the soul of these people. How they stand by their trophy kill with those "look-at-me" grins thinking they are powerful or strong or whatever it is that they believe they are. The whole concept of canned hunting is beyond my comprehension.
The caption for this posting is what some or even most canned hunters feel. Trophy hunters often have their wish list -- a bucket list if you will -- of animals they want to kill during their lifetime. I cannot fathom this mindset.
Canned hunters must have a perverted sense of joy and twisted sense of accomplishment along with what I can only describe as scary egos. These exotic animals are transported from their natural habitat and some are farm raised to continue the species for future hunting. They are on grounds that have fences. They are not living a natural life and they die a quite unnatural death. I will never understand the soul of these people. How they stand by their trophy kill with those "look-at-me" grins thinking they are powerful or strong or whatever it is that they believe they are. The whole concept of canned hunting is beyond my comprehension.
Canned hunting seems so obviously wrong that it feels almost silly making that point. Hunters I know would never go to a commercial lodge where animals had been stocked like fish in a pond and where the grounds are fenced. There's no real challenge. It's not 'real' hunting. It's disgraceful. The whole thing is a barbaric, inhumane way to make money and be entertained at the great expense of amazing wild creatures. "Harvesting" animals on canned hunts should not only be illegal it should be viewed as horrendously shameful.
Canned Hunts
Canned Hunts
"Did you know there are over 500 ranches in Texas alone that allow exotic animals like our friends here at WildLife on Easy Street to be hunted down in a fenced or small enclosed area to be shot for a fee? It happens much like ordering off of a menu - maybe a wolf for \$250, a bear for $375 and a tiger for $2000. You see there are many animals that have been auctioned off and sold to "big game" ranches because they were bred for it or abandoned by owners who didn't understand the responsibilities of caring for an exotic animal. Many come to their certain demise on these ranches. The worse part is in some cases, they are so used to human contact, that they do not even know to run or be afraid. Not only is this cruel, but it also violates any hunters code of ethics, being the animals are enclosed. There is a bill that has been proposed that would end this, but has stalled for lack of action. Please join us in writing our congress people. Simply cut and paste the following letter to your own word processor. Modify it to add your own personal thoughts. Then locate your congressmen here and mail a copy to them. These animals are counting on you to speak for them!"
"Did you know there are over 500 ranches in Texas alone that allow exotic animals like our friends here at WildLife on Easy Street to be hunted down in a fenced or small enclosed area to be shot for a fee? It happens much like ordering off of a menu - maybe a wolf for \$250, a bear for $375 and a tiger for $2000. You see there are many animals that have been auctioned off and sold to "big game" ranches because they were bred for it or abandoned by owners who didn't understand the responsibilities of caring for an exotic animal. Many come to their certain demise on these ranches. The worse part is in some cases, they are so used to human contact, that they do not even know to run or be afraid. Not only is this cruel, but it also violates any hunters code of ethics, being the animals are enclosed. There is a bill that has been proposed that would end this, but has stalled for lack of action. Please join us in writing our congress people. Simply cut and paste the following letter to your own word processor. Modify it to add your own personal thoughts. Then locate your congressmen here and mail a copy to them. These animals are counting on you to speak for them!"
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