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Filmmaker risks safety to shoot undercover documentary about lion trophy hunting

ABC Gold Coast /
By Nicole Dyer, Tom Forbes, and Kirsten Webster
Posted 16h ago 16 hours ago


An Australian filmmaker who went undercover to film a documentary about big game hunting in Africa is hoping the movie will help to end trophy hunting.

Key points:
Rogue Rubin says she created a new online identity to infiltrate the trophy hunting industry
The filmmaker and conservationist says there are only 20,000 lions left living in the wild
Trophy hunters pay between $110,000 and $140,000 to kill a lion
Melbourne-based Rogue Rubin is a conservationist who wanted to explore the trophy hunting industry.

Her initial efforts to infiltrate were unsuccessful so she created a new online identity.

"I thought I'd better be one of them," she said.

"I went on Facebook and said I love eating meat — I'm a vegetarian.

"I said my views are more Republican than they are — I created all of these things that fitted the mould of a stereotypical person who would love trophy hunting."

It worked.

Rubin was granted a photographic internship on a game hunt in exchange for the photographs and footage she captured.

"That changed the game for me and I didn't just go on lion hunts," she said.

"I went on all forms of hunts because I had to prove myself to be invited on a major lion hunt.

"You are essentially working as an undercover operative."


Fears of blowing her cover

The filmmaker said she wanted to understand the mindset of trophy hunters and highlight the plight of wild lions, which WWF listed as vulnerable.

"[Trophy hunting] is legal, it's not an illegal practice, and the problem is that it should be illegal," she said.

"I knew elephants were endangered with about 50,000 left in the wild.

"I knew rhino were endangered — we all hear about rhino going extinct and there are 30,000.

"I had no idea that lions were on the verge of imminent extinction, there are only 20,000 left in the wild."

While filming Lion Spy, Rubin said she feared her cover may have been exposed on a few occasions and she did initially feel unsafe.

"I am with men, alone in place I can't pronounce in Africa and no-one knows where I am and what I'm doing," she said.


The filmmaker said hunters paid between $110,000 and $140,000 to kill a lion.

"It's lucrative to a select group of individuals, a very highly select group of individuals," she said.

"It's a billion-dollar industry."

Rubin said 64 per cent of lion trophy hunters were from the United States.

"Let's not discredit that Australians are trophy hunters too," she said.

"We are the only country that has banned the importation of lion trophies."


Political change key to end slaughter

Rubin hoped her film would bring about change and put an end to trophy hunting.

"I am already working with a few organisations internationally and we're looking at taking it further into politics," she said.


"We're not looking at changing the African political landscape — that's not a battle we're going to win.

"We have to look at changing the international view of the subject and we have to look at changing international politics.

"If you cannot take a lion trophy home, you will not go hunt a lion."

Preview screenings of Lion Spy will be held at various locations around Australia, including the Gold Coast and Toowoomba.

The film will screen nationally on November 24.

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And if Africans can’t benefit from hunting, the game will be left only in Parks
Rogue is definitely misguided to say the least



Filmmaker risks safety to shoot undercover documentary about lion trophy hunting

ABC Gold Coast /
By Nicole Dyer, Tom Forbes, and Kirsten Webster
Posted 16h ago 16 hours ago


An Australian filmmaker who went undercover to film a documentary about big game hunting in Africa is hoping the movie will help to end trophy hunting.

Key points:
Rogue Rubin says she created a new online identity to infiltrate the trophy hunting industry
The filmmaker and conservationist says there are only 20,000 lions left living in the wild
Trophy hunters pay between $110,000 and $140,000 to kill a lion
Melbourne-based Rogue Rubin is a conservationist who wanted to explore the trophy hunting industry.

Her initial efforts to infiltrate were unsuccessful so she created a new online identity.

"I thought I'd better be one of them," she said.

"I went on Facebook and said I love eating meat — I'm a vegetarian.

"I said my views are more Republican than they are — I created all of these things that fitted the mould of a stereotypical person who would love trophy hunting."

It worked.

Rubin was granted a photographic internship on a game hunt in exchange for the photographs and footage she captured.

"That changed the game for me and I didn't just go on lion hunts," she said.

"I went on all forms of hunts because I had to prove myself to be invited on a major lion hunt.

"You are essentially working as an undercover operative."


Fears of blowing her cover

The filmmaker said she wanted to understand the mindset of trophy hunters and highlight the plight of wild lions, which WWF listed as vulnerable.

"[Trophy hunting] is legal, it's not an illegal practice, and the problem is that it should be illegal," she said.

"I knew elephants were endangered with about 50,000 left in the wild.

"I knew rhino were endangered — we all hear about rhino going extinct and there are 30,000.

"I had no idea that lions were on the verge of imminent extinction, there are only 20,000 left in the wild."

While filming Lion Spy, Rubin said she feared her cover may have been exposed on a few occasions and she did initially feel unsafe.

"I am with men, alone in place I can't pronounce in Africa and no-one knows where I am and what I'm doing," she said.


The filmmaker said hunters paid between $110,000 and $140,000 to kill a lion.

"It's lucrative to a select group of individuals, a very highly select group of individuals," she said.

"It's a billion-dollar industry."

Rubin said 64 per cent of lion trophy hunters were from the United States.

"Let's not discredit that Australians are trophy hunters too," she said.

"We are the only country that has banned the importation of lion trophies."


Political change key to end slaughter

Rubin hoped her film would bring about change and put an end to trophy hunting.

"I am already working with a few organisations internationally and we're looking at taking it further into politics," she said.


"We're not looking at changing the African political landscape — that's not a battle we're going to win.

"We have to look at changing the international view of the subject and we have to look at changing international politics.

"If you cannot take a lion trophy home, you will not go hunt a lion."

Preview screenings of Lion Spy will be held at various locations around Australia, including the Gold Coast and Toowoomba.

The film will screen nationally on November 24.

Posted 16h ago


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Classic this.

A bloody cabbage head, lying, trying to impose her stupid views on others!


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Link to "Lion Spy" trailer.


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An excellent video that discusses the folly of a ban on lion hunting.


https://youtu.be/GiyQvm9d4tM


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You are imagining talking to people with any sense.

These zombies have non.

Emotional stupidly, they have plenty of!


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Only 50,000 wild elephants left? Really. What a piece of garbage. 2020


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They missed the part where when Obama banned lion imports that parks personnel went out and killed 200 lions to prevent overpopulation. Even NY Times ran an article admitting they got it wrong.


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'A billion dollar industry' and she thinks it is going to shoot itself to extinction along with the lions?

Idiot.

The best thing wild lions have going for them if they truly provide a billion dollars per year.


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Typical libtard. Go with inaccurate information and think it's totally ok to lie as long as it accomplishes the illicit goal.
 
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Typical libtard. Go with inaccurate information and think it's totally ok to lie as long as it accomplishes the illicit goal.


Nothing new here.

Usual stupidity from some people who like to impose their convoluted opinions on others.

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Not hunt if no trophy imports allowed? Not going to work on me: I prefer to save the import fees for another hunt! beer


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Hmmmm . . .

She "risks safety" by shooting a lame film about lions.

Really?

I prefer to risk safety by shooting lions.


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Hmmmm . . .

She "risks safety" by shooting a lame film about lions.

Really?

I prefer to risk safety by shooting lions.


She is trying to be dramatic, but in reality the only danger she was in was being sent packing.


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Not sure how many of you remember this.

A few years ago we had a bit of discussion on reality with an Australian "professor".

Apparently she was looking for information on black mambas, and Google sent her here.

Horror of horrors! It is a HUNTING site.

She did not like us, and sent me a nasty email, at the bottom of which was the usual silly "this is confidential and should not shared sort of bullshit"

I posted her letter here, and sent her a link.

She got absolutely mad, telling me I have no right to publish her letter.

It is OK for her to attack someone she never met, but to answer her was unacceptable.

Some members wrote to het university, they found out that she was not actually a professor at all.

She was one very pissed off sour pussy! rotflmo


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She was one very pissed off sour pussy!

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Maybe she's actually a double agent. Just wanted to go on some free lion hunts, and kill one at no cost. She pretended to be a huntress to us, and to them, an anti, a vegetarian, maybe even a virgin......I'm going to let the anti's know...she actually IS one of us. A dyed in the wool, lion killing machine. That's what I'm gonna tell them..........WWB
 
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This stupid woman's only aim is fame.

She could not careless about any animal.

She is too impressed with herself, screaming LOOK AT ME! I AM SAVING THE LIONS FROM NASTY HUNTERS!

May be she should go to the villages where the inhabitants spend their dark nights in fear of these lions?


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