Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has made an emotional call to the government to follow the lead of the US and the Netherlands and ban the import of “barbaric” captive lion trophies.

It comes as he reveals his findings from an investigation in to lion farming in South Africa.

In the year-long investigation, called Operation Simba, he claims that lions are being bred en mass, with the aim of killing them and using them in “medicine” or as trinkets in the far east – so that hunters can make a profit.

He also revealed that wealthy trophy hunters, some from the UK, pay thousands of pounds to shoot the captive animals, often from short distances, so they can be photographed with them and take the skin as a reward.

In his investigation, he followed one person, allegedly from Britain, who paid £3,000 for a lion named Simba to be released into a compound, so that he could shoot it and be photographed with it.

Simba was eventually released into the wild. Pic: Lord Ashcroft

Lord Ashcroft also shows evidence of a text conversation he had with a British man who advised him of the best way to smuggle the dead animals into the UK.

He says the slaughtered lion skins are being brought into the country inside deer carcasses, making it almost impossible for them to be detected by customs officials.

His probe into the lion farms also showed that in the space of two days, 54 lions were killed in a single slaughterhouse, so that their bones could be harvested and sent to companies who want to use them in “traditional” Asian medicine.

Reporting in the Mail on Sunday, he said: “Dead lions, some skinned and others waiting to be skinned, littered the blood stained floor.

Lions are slaughtered on an industrial scale. Pic: Lord Ashcroft

“A pile of innards and skeletons lay elsewhere inside. While discarded internal body parts were piled high in overflowing black plastic bags on a trailer outside.”

The harrowing findings did not stop there though, as he also discovered that lions and tigers were being cross-bred, in an attempt to create bigger, and “more imposing” animals, that are worth more to those who want to hunt them.

Lord Ashcroft has vowed to lobby the government over what he calls the “failure to close a glaring loophole” that encourages imports of lion skins into the UK.

The number of lions in the wild has fallen dramatically over the last 100 years, with only an estimated 20,000 left, compared to around 200,000 a century ago.

https://news.sky.com/story/lion-farming-investigation-reveals-hunters-spend-thousands-to-shoot-captive-lions-in-south-africa-11705841

This time I have no own comment, but a very intelligent analysis of the hunter`s  nature from: https://wildbeimwild.com/2016/12/20/jaeger-besser-verstehen-psychopathie/:

What kind of human must be one who enjoys taking the life of another creature?

At first glance, it may seem unlikely, but what if the same sick psychology that makes a man hunt a fox and shoot him, make a man invade a house and stab a knife into a human body?

These people are among us. They are military officials, veterinarians, gynecologists, dentists or guide scout groups. A whole range of factors such as genes, family relationships, education, intelligence and opportunities form a psychopath!

Neuropsychologists confirm: Violence leaves traces in the brain after a short time. The amygdala, the feeling-sorting office in the brain, is conspicuously regressed or disturbed by violent perpetrators and psychopaths. If this central part of the brain is defective, the feeling of disgust, among other things, is eliminated. The amygdala is also known as the almond kernel.

Even monkeys whose amygdala does not work properly do very stupid things. For example, they try to pick up cobras from the ground.

Some serial killers are of the opinion that a higher power would make them kill something. The cannibal Richard Chase pushed the door handles of the strangers’ homes. When the door was locked, he took it as a sign that he was not welcome in this house and left. An unlocked door, on the other hand, was an invitation: he was “destined” to kill the person in the house.

John Douglas was one of the first criminal profilers at the FBI. According to him, serial killers take “mementos” of their victims to extend their violent fantasies.

Some take jewelry or hair strands, other photos or body parts. Hunters, and especially trophy hunters, proudly present the severed head of their prey on the wall and share pictures of themselves – smiling next to a corpse – on social media.

Just like serial killers, hunters have to prove their status as a person who has power over life and death.
Trophies and souvenirs remind them of the power they once had over another creature.

Some hunters also commit murder to humans.
Why? Because hunting non-human beings was not exciting enough anymore.

“Killing people is so much fun,” the Zodiac killer wrote in one of his letters. “It’s even better than killing game in the forest, because humans are the most dangerous of all animals.”

Both types of killers, serial killer and hunter, could leave their fantasies as such. Hunters could shoot photos instead of deadly bullets.
But both decide – with enthusiasm – to take a life to satisfy their own selfish desire. They plan their bloodlust carefully and then kill again and again, with no chance of an end.

It is time for us to recognize hunting as what it really is: a pastime for psychopaths with low moral hygiene.

 

My best regards to all, Venus

 

 

The web page “Netzfrauen” (Network Women) was sued by a German big game hunter who killed a big elephant in Africa,  although it was the foreign media who published his photo and not this site. We’ve often posted articles from this very informative website and we’re now really angry with those cheeky jerks who want to intimidate the site with this equally outrageous lawsuit so that in the future facts and truth about the trophy hunt remain in the dark. Here is the message:

“Dear Readers, I have been sued by a German trophy hunter and now I am going to pay a heavy fine to the state of Berlin.

If I do not pay, I go to jail!
I’ve just talked to my trophy hunt organizations and I’m ready to go to jail for the elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos and rhinos, also known as the BIG5.
If I can finally stop this trophy hunt, it’s worth it.
We will continue to inform you – on behalf of all animals.

Thank you for your support.

Netzfrauen”

John Cleese: Trophy hunters who kill wild animals are „impotent“ and „inadequate“

In addition a very nice text of “Netzfrauen” to this situation:

“Incidentally, the one who points to the dirt is more dangerous here than the one who does the filth.” Kurt Tucholsky (January 9, 1890 – December 21, 1935)
Yes, this is still the case in 2019, as we always have to experience painfully.
As a large food company said:
“As long as activists are attacked in Germany and not the corporations, comes to Germany what other countries do not want.”
It is exactly like that.
No matter if you are committed to animal welfare – you will be attacked.
It does not matter if you’re campaigning for healthy foods – you’re under attack.
No matter if you are committed to human rights – you will be attacked!
It does not matter if children are committed to their future – they are attacked.
.. but never by the corporations, but by mothers and fathers, who should actually know better.
So why still fight?

It is more convenient to attack those who point out the filth instead of attacking the real culprit, quite comfortably from the couch!

This is what it looks like in 2019 … Kurt Tucholsky already recognized it then.
Look around, Germany is world champion in pay dumping, but export world champion
Germany is the largest meat producer, possible through factory farming.
Germany has protected the automotive industry for years, and now thousands are unemployed, and while the boards can record millions of euros as salaries, the victims of the “diesel gate” go out empty, that does not matter, the taxpayer likes to pay.
Does not matter if Germany is the country that invests less in education.
It does not seem to matter that nursing homes and hospitals have long since been sold to investors.
Why should we get upset … seemingly all right.
They do not need us!
But do not complain if you realize that everything is not all right!

the US dentist Walter Palmer, has never been punished for the murder of Cecil 2015.

 

https://www.nordbayern.de/panorama/deutscher-jager-totet-einen-der-grossten-elefanten-simbabwes-1.4723874

https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.video-deutscher-jaeger-toetet-riesigen-elefanten-in-simbabwe.6e262195-14e9-432e-8154-7f4af60d334e.html

My comment: The corrupt politicians know very well that it is not the Enlightenment people who are to be punished. The psychopaths who kill animals as trophies are the culprits. It is the epidemics of this planet, dangerous parasites that only occupy the place.
And for us to call things by their name: without the lobbying of the corrupt politicians, most of whom are also wild animal hunters, this dull gang would have no chance to continue their killings.
It is difficult to find the right words against this legalized massacre of defenseless animals. Even attaching the worst photos or words could not be enough to describe the extent of the mass killings of trophy hunters.

The defendants have not asked for donations, but we nevertheless post the account number, and we think that any donation will be an important help that the web site operator does not go to jail.

On the question “why still we fight on”, we had already borrowed the answer from Bertold Brecht: “without us they would have had it much easier”

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My best regards to all, Venus

 

The following article comes from the internet german magazine “Wild and Dog”. It is an exemplary demonstration of cold-blooded cynicism and repulsive hypocrisy, with which a psychopath describes how the cruel hunting form, constuction`s hunt, works.

Hunters are not only professional killers, they are also professional liars, which is also clear in this article.

First, some about these two hunting (murder) forms

1. Hunting in the nature buildings of the foxes. These buildings raise the foxes themselves to overthrow their family. The dogs are trained with constant pressure to force the animals to jump out, and then they are massacred from thr hunters.

2. The second is hunting in artificial structures for foxes (constructed by hunters). There is the same murderous game of driving the animals out, so they are shot. But there are provided also the fox traps.

Both are methods that want to satisfy a sick sadism and are used only by psychopaths.

The article: Introduction

“Who wants to reduce foxes effectively, has no choice: he must hunt young foxes. We show how it works”.

“No, it certainly does not make fun – not a bit. Because the shooting or catching of young foxes in the construction is one of the most unpleasant acts in hunting life”

But on an other article in year 2017 we find an other oppinion and a video. And there it says: “fox hunting is fun, it’s a nice thing to hunt the fox, it’s an exciting hunt. Hunting in construction is infinitely more exciting than other forms of hunting”.

The article cintinues: “If you want to kill the puppies in the building, it rarely succeeds in getting all the young foxes. The mother will bring the rest of the family to safety, and you’ll have to search again. However, it is very difficult to find the puppies in the increasingly dense vegetation in May. “

Fox puppy traps

With ice cold murderous professionalism is described how to get the foxes in the traps.

“However, if you use special traps, this risk is much lower. Often it is possible to capture the whole thing in just one night.

Meanwhile, several types of puppy traps have been developed and improved.

In practice, the quadrilateral models have proved their worth. The traps have a mesh size of 19 × 19 or 25 × 50 millimeters. However, they can also be produced from 12 millimeter thick screen printing plates!

Around March, the puppies are born and at about four weeks, the puppies explore the tube system of the building, and appear about the fifth week of life before the construction, usually in the last April to the first week of May.

At least, now that the Fox Mum is foraging, it’s time to populate the main tubes with puppy traps. The sooner the intercept, the safer the entire tail gets caught, because in a puppy age of about five to six weeks still a very strong bond of the puppies to each other and to the parent building exists.

And then…

“The trapped puppies are killed by headshot with an approved caliber weapon (22 lb is allowed), either in the trap or outside. And that is anything but a refreshing hunt.

Only understandable if therefore many hunters reject the puppy for emotional reasons. But one must not forget that so that foxes can be taken from the animal welfare in the wild and we get only so the outrunning fox population really under control”.

https://wildundhund.de/wild-und-hund-jagdpraxis-allgemein-5157/

https://www.jagderleben.de/praxis/baujagd-fuchsjagd-kunstbau

The truth is: The Animal Welfare Act, § 1 states: “… No one shall inflict pain, suffering or harm on an animal for any reasonable reason.” Only these psychopaths, the hunters have made sure that this law is not widely used by their peers.

Quote biologist Professor Reichholf says: “Our forests are abused as wild breeding grounds for a privileged recreational sport.”

About 10 million animals killed every year from hunters hand, more than half a million of them are foxes. The hunt is nothing but a bloody open air slaughterhouse. And in the end, the remains of the victims hang as trophies on the walls.

How run down can missing morality still look like? Turning a vulnerable life into a bleeding, lifeless bundle of suffering is a crime! What else should be a crime? ”

Hunting is and will continue to be murder!

 

My best regards, Venus

 

 

Hunting, ie the killing of wild animals, has been officially banned in Brazil since 1967. But lobbyists now want to legalize the hunt in Brazil – even in nature reserves.

Furthermore, the new law will allow private hunting areas: for sports, for commercial purposes as well as the commercial trade and commercial breeding of wild animals.

brazilian jaguar

Brazilian environmentalists sharply criticize the bill. Hunting and killing animals call them cruel, immoral and medieval rituals. The hunt is really just for the pleasure of the hunters, the fun of killing and the trade in endangered species.

Tukan

The fauna, which is already massively decimated, must be protected and must not be destroyed, writes the organisation APREMAVI.

Behind the bill are also the interests of the Brazilian arms industry and arms exporters, especially from the USA.

Scientists reject the proposed law because hunting affects the stability of ecosystems and agricultural land and their own quality of life. Animals are irreplaceable for ecosystems and agricultural crops: they regenerate the forests by spreading seeds, keeping stocks in balance and healthy by controlling pests and diseases.

Ants bear

Loss of environmental benefits from wildlife would have fatal ecological consequences, including high financial costs for us humans. Hunting also increases the risk of endangered species, many of which are endemic to Brazil (i.e., nowhere else in the world) extinct.

lion monkeys, live only in the south of Brasil

The legislative initiative weakens the protection of the fauna and the preservation of biodiversity. It undermines existing environmental laws protecting wildlife (No 5.197 / 67), the Environmental Crime Law (No 9.605 / 98) and international treaties signed by Brazil such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Please support the petition to the Brazilian Parliament. It should protect the wildlife and reject the hunting law!

https://www.regenwald.org/petitionen/1173/tiermassaker-in-brasilien-verhindern

My comment:  Go home! Animals do not need serial killers!

Best regards, Venus