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https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...hy-hunters/100621450 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 Kathi kathi@wildtravel.net 708-425-3552 "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." | ||
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" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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Classic this. A bloody cabbage head, lying, trying to impose her stupid views on others! | |||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izPWguUx70 Link to "Lion Spy" trailer. Kathi kathi@wildtravel.net 708-425-3552 "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." | |||
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An excellent video that discusses the folly of a ban on lion hunting. https://youtu.be/GiyQvm9d4tM The hunting imperative was part of every man's soul; some denied or suppressed it, others diverted it into less blatantly violent avenues of expression, wielding clubs on the golf course or racquets on the court, substituting a little white ball for the prey of flesh and blood. Wilbur Smith | |||
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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. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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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. DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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LOL '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. Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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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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Nothing new here. Usual stupidity from some people who like to impose their convoluted opinions on others. I love meeting these in person, as it does not take very long to make them squirm! | |||
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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! USMC Retired DSC Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Hmmmm . . . She "risks safety" by shooting a lame film about lions. Really? I prefer to risk safety by shooting lions. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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She is trying to be dramatic, but in reality the only danger she was in was being sent packing. DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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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! | |||
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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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