Timbo
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Hello all,
Forgive me if this sounds a bit disjointed, but I'm writing this on the go! I must bring to your attention to today's online headlines of The Mirror (see: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wealthy-brit-revealed-one-most-14151635.amp) where the "Campaign to ban trophy hunting" has identified and villified an individual hunter:
Without going into an examination of the minutiae, this report is loaded (no pun intended) with the usual overt bias and slurs to influence the ignorant masses such as: "travels around the globe shooting wild animals for fun", and that he: "is among the world’s ‘elite’ big game hunters – very few have amassed so many of the industry’s obscene awards".
Only at one point in this prejudiced report is a brief response permitted from this legitimate hunter. It ends with another biased quote: "The CBTH said 1.7 million animals have been killed by trophy hunters in the past decade, of which more than 200,000 were endangered species."
Personally, I'd like to know where they get their data, and if these 200,000 "endangered" animals is a misrepresentation of that legitimately hunted within agreed quotas? Anyway I looked up the "Campaign for the ban of trophy hunting" bantrophyhunting.org/about and their site quotes a lot of figures, which one must reasonably question as they've even posted up an essay from a 14yo kid!! No doubt they regard this kid is an "expert"!!
Nowhere did I find any reference to my oft' quoted fact: "The WWF Director General, James Leape, stated publicly on DVD: "Hunting species in a sustainable way will continue to be a part of conservation - and should be!" (BBC DVD, 2006, "Planet earth", Episode 14, "Living together")" Perhaps this little fact doesn't sit right with their agendum!!
Anyway, I'd implore all members to make an online response outlining this sites bias and hypocrisy - as it's only by us showing a united front, and that we won't stand for this lying down (Huh?) - that we can defend our sport, and the proven positive impact sport hunting makes upon conservation.
IMO as this is another prejudiced attack by the antis, maybe we should all take the fight back? Any ideas? I've responded by highlighting their hypocrisy as being a part of society which condones the operations of abbatoirs, the plethora of televised fishing and cooking shows - and all without a single uttered word in protest!!
Timbo
Forgive me if this sounds a bit disjointed, but I'm writing this on the go! I must bring to your attention to today's online headlines of The Mirror (see: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wealthy-brit-revealed-one-most-14151635.amp) where the "Campaign to ban trophy hunting" has identified and villified an individual hunter:
Without going into an examination of the minutiae, this report is loaded (no pun intended) with the usual overt bias and slurs to influence the ignorant masses such as: "travels around the globe shooting wild animals for fun", and that he: "is among the world’s ‘elite’ big game hunters – very few have amassed so many of the industry’s obscene awards".
Only at one point in this prejudiced report is a brief response permitted from this legitimate hunter. It ends with another biased quote: "The CBTH said 1.7 million animals have been killed by trophy hunters in the past decade, of which more than 200,000 were endangered species."
Personally, I'd like to know where they get their data, and if these 200,000 "endangered" animals is a misrepresentation of that legitimately hunted within agreed quotas? Anyway I looked up the "Campaign for the ban of trophy hunting" bantrophyhunting.org/about and their site quotes a lot of figures, which one must reasonably question as they've even posted up an essay from a 14yo kid!! No doubt they regard this kid is an "expert"!!
Nowhere did I find any reference to my oft' quoted fact: "The WWF Director General, James Leape, stated publicly on DVD: "Hunting species in a sustainable way will continue to be a part of conservation - and should be!" (BBC DVD, 2006, "Planet earth", Episode 14, "Living together")" Perhaps this little fact doesn't sit right with their agendum!!
Anyway, I'd implore all members to make an online response outlining this sites bias and hypocrisy - as it's only by us showing a united front, and that we won't stand for this lying down (Huh?) - that we can defend our sport, and the proven positive impact sport hunting makes upon conservation.
IMO as this is another prejudiced attack by the antis, maybe we should all take the fight back? Any ideas? I've responded by highlighting their hypocrisy as being a part of society which condones the operations of abbatoirs, the plethora of televised fishing and cooking shows - and all without a single uttered word in protest!!
Timbo
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, you can really see how desperate they are. 
