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21 September 2015, 23:05
MJines
SCI Op Ed Piece
Hopefully we will see more in the near future:

Chip Burkhalter of Safari Club International calls for hunting critics to learn the facts on what hunting does for wildlife management and conservation, and to respect and honor hunters' legal rights and personal beliefs.

"It was the arrow that broke the world's heart, or at least some in the United States. But to most in Africa, and others throughout the world, the media obsession over the death of Cecil the lion was an outrageous emotional reaction that ignored the role of hunting as a vital source of conservation and revenue practiced widely on the African continent."

"Most rural Africans understand that the same creatures we have anthropomorphized as majestic icons are in fact a daily threat to livelihoods and human lives, yet the collective psyche of America seemed to care to more for a lion than a human. The recent tragic killing of a tour guide by a lion in the very same park that Cecil the lion made famous barely registered a blip on the radar. It is time for us to cease this moral imperialism and have an open and frank discussion about hunting."

Read his full piece here, "Westerners Criticizing Hunting Is Just Another Form Of (Moral) Imperialism"


Mike
21 September 2015, 23:27
fairgame
Great and thanks for that.


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22 September 2015, 02:55
JTEX
Good read......sure could have come a bit sooner though....


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22 September 2015, 04:57
nhoro
Thanks. Shared.


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Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if
you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on
the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the
day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers—then you have not merely
killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed
because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always
recapture the day - Robert Ruark

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22 September 2015, 06:54
Saeed
Very nicely written.
Now, why did this not come out immediately the media stupid outrage came out??


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22 September 2015, 08:03
Matt Graham
quote:
Originally posted by Saeed:
Very nicely written.
Now, why did this not come out immediately the media stupid outrage came out??
Because Chip hadn't written it yet!


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22 September 2015, 08:08
Use Enough Gun
Great piece! tu2
22 September 2015, 18:06
MikeBurke
Good article and shared on Facebook