This week we (WAV) have attempted to make contact with Blackthorn Safaris to make our disgust at what they are doing audible to them. They cannot be contacted in any way; and all of their sites appear to have been shutdown; hopefully due to the amount of mails and telephone calls that they have been getting from irate animal supporters. Here below is the basic story; but this has appeared in many UK national newspapers in the last week. Maybe it is this also that has caused Goss to close down all the sites.

Just for once he is now experiencing what it is like to be ’hunted’ – I am sure that there are many people in the UK that would wish him harm. – WAV England.

This pile of crap is an insult to the great work which is being done everywhere by UK animal welfare organisations.  He and his organisation are an offence to the good name that these groups and people have worked years to achieve.  The UK disowns shit such as this.  We hope he has a severe accident with his gun in the very near future.

Some UK press links about this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9354925/lion-safari-british-boss-trophy-hunter/

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/oswestry/2019/06/24/shropshire-man-runs-callous-hunting-firm/

http://www.cannedlion.org/united-kingdom.html

https://ladyfreethinker.org/exposed-this-british-firm-is-hosting-canned-lion-hunts/

British company Blackthorn Safaris is charging heartless trophy hunters thousands of pounds to murder captive-bred lions like sitting ducks during “canned hunting” shoots on an estate in Kimberley, South Africa.

Alex Goss, who owns the Shropshire-based firm, posted several sickening photographs on the company’s website, picturing him with the innocent animals he and his guests have cruelly slaughtered. It is believed that the lions in the photographs were specifically bred in captivity to be mercilessly hunted down within fenced estates, leaving them with no chance of escape.

Throughout South Africa there are approximately 10,000 lions in more than 300 breeding and captive hunting centers.

Calling canned hunting “cowardly”, Eduardo Goncalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, which exposed Blackthorn Safaris’s gruesome practices, explained how lion cubs are taken from their moms just hours after birth, then raised in captivity to be killed for “entertainment”.

“In the shocking world of trophy hunting, there is nothing more depraved than captive lion hunting,” he said. “For a British company apparently to be actively organizing captive lion hunts will make people sick to the stomach. The Government should ban the import of hunting trophies, help close the loophole in international law which lets hunters shoot endangered animals for “sport” and support moves to abolish all trophy hunting”.

“Lions are in serious danger of going extinct,” added Goncalves. “In the 1950s, there were up to 450,000 lions in the wild. Today there are just 20,000. Lions have disappeared from 90% of their range and gone extinct in 26 countries.”