Chipolopolo

2014-03-15T08:09:00.000-07:00

Haley Mullinix

3:04 AM (6 hours ago)

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The fact that you people hunt lions and probably other beautiful helpless animals is sickening. What is the point? It is literally psychotic that you can kill a majestic creature such as a lion and not feel like a piece of shit. You and others like you are one of the things that are seriously wrong with the world we live in. I really, sincerely hope that one day you’ll be attempting to kill one of these animals for your pleasure, and instead the giant razor sharp teeth of a black-maned lion clamps down on your flesh. Why don’t you spend your time helping animals and maybe other people, instead of murdering innocent living beings that have more soul than you’ll ever have?

Cave Dweller supreme!

2014-03-15T07:19:00.001-07:00

Robert robertzurobski@dodo.com.au

7:19 PM (12 hours ago)

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Hey fuckwit I want to hunt you and your no balls team? How much...you stand in a cage and I will blast away and be a real man ! hope you bastards all go broke and this cowardly sudhuman trade gets banned real soon ...you are oxygen thieves .

robertzurobski@dodo.com.au

Dear Linda - martham@y7mail.com

2013-05-14T17:22:00.005-07:00

Dear Linda,

I guess you didn't see the news about MacDonalds and their fast food restaurants - apparently it is unhealthy for you if you do decide to consume great quantities as well as make it your permanent diet.

My presumption is based on the fact that you didn't threaten to kill them and liken them to the next holocaust and call them the living Hitler! I didn't see any news about you, Linda, scaling the walls of the golden arches and saying to them they were responsible for apartheid and the single handed destruction of mother Africa.

I ask this because I have a suspicion that you could be capable of this, quite perfectly capable of blaming the worlds best known burger joint of genocide. How do I know this? well lets look at the facts you have presented to me over the last couple of days. Sure you are emotional yet I believe that you are not alone, there are far more of your kind who would not only go as far as you stupidly did, but take another step and try physical means to get your misguided opinion across.

Now for the good stuff you have sent my way!
Linda's intelligent conversation recorded:

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Drop dead you disgusting money grubbing murderer. See how you feel when your family dies and ones you love suffer & die. Because one day they will.

We hope you suffer 1000 times more than these innocent animals & curse you & your accomplices & anything you love....

What goes around comes around.

You are & will be hated the world over. How does it feel to be less than kak.
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you should put your comments over here instead

http://bwanapete.blogspot.com/

What for ...better to waste your useless murdering time ... Disgusting inhuman rock spider. Hitler is your name!

OK what about the generations of inhumane murders and torture under apartheid that your family perpetrated on the Africans? Did you forget about that!

No - YOU did that - ! & you still are with your social apartheid. You,are killers in every sense if the,word. So how much do you pay your " black" employees. ???
You profit in a beautiful country that is now corrupt - the rich & the poor. And you profit from ugly fat rich westerners' & others who want to pretend they are "men" - when in fact they are as gutless and dickless as you are. All for a photograph that their grandchildren & the world will despise them for , and you, for making it possible. Thank God they will die young due to their disgusting eating habits... & YOU take advantage of the Africans & rape mother Africa..

You would do far better taking tourists on beautiful safaris where they can be inspired & enjoy the beauty. & animals - yet you choose a bloodbath of suffering and another holocaust. You KNOW in what is left of your heart, it is true.

AAAAAAH! as I thought - your ignorance of reality eludes to your depravity - no one can take you seriously if you base your rants on pure emotion and no fact - almost like you have been living in a cave for your entire life and now the internet gives you a means to take yourself seriously.

No one else does or will, - you simply are a stupid individual who is wasting our oxygen and our resources to keep you and your hapless family alive - go pick on someone of your lower level of intelligence and capacity - perhaps your fellow inmates at the institution you are currently at because that's all I can think - you're out of touch with real life.

Sweetheart not you are the depraved murders & cowards, destroying life. You are sick to your souls & if you were not so disgusting, I would even pity you. Existing in death every day.

Even one tiny animal life, is worth more than yours, even a diseased rat. You sure are the scum of the earth - & you know it. ! Si defensive of your killing sprees.
You are unlovable because you are unable to love. You are unworthy of life because you do nor value life.
And no we are not hiding. We know exactly who and where you are.
Your so called real life is no life. You are sick to your souls. The only good purpose your gun has is to shoot yourselves. You will remember that every day you go to the toilet wont you, because that is exactly what you are.. Crap.

well I sure will remember you when I increase the number of elephants we shoot this year - in fact after our brief exchange of words I think I will double the number we take off our concession this year - just to prove a point that their blood may be on your hands - AND there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! so I guess I have the last laugh don't I - I'll send you pictures.

The government g facbook will be very interested in your comments , to name just a few. You are so easy to fool.

Like I said - you are pure Evil.

being Evil is a matter of subjectivity - you think I am, most normal people don't!

You can't fix stupid however, so that you are stuck with for life!

So what dies your girlfriend think of you.. An ugly aging old man with no courage. Take on a animal with your bare hands .. & see how many you are.
Like u said what dies your girlfriend think if you now.. .. You have exposed yourself mate. Its over for you. Totsiens :)

sure so I am REALLY quivering in my boots right now - come on - seriously you think you can threaten the likes of me? As if you have discovered a great misconduct here and you are suddenly going to save all the worlds elephants????

You're just a sad bored individual who has no grip on reality or what really happens in Africa and therefore you are disqualified from having any say in the fate of the elephants on my property - YES your opinion - because that is simply what it is a - a very dim witted opinion - well it does NOT count out here and there is nothing you can do about it - we will still hunt elephant in our usual manner - you're not going to save them - that you can count on!

Enjoy your cave!

So Linda gave up the argument - I guess getting ready to take me down - so here I sit waiting for the apocalypse from Linda!

Those criminals again?????

2013-04-30T10:07:00.000-07:00

Recently there has again been a despicable video of a South African Lion hunt in a cage - I want to make it clear this is an absolute abomination - these people - PH and client should be placed in a cage, prodded with tazers and then shot - that's how I feel about it - this is NOT HUNTING - it is greedy killing!

Yet because my website ranks high and because I believe in the hunting of Lion in South Africa as opposed to taking out the wild genetic pool in the "real Africa" where Lions belong - I have overnight received a great number of hate emails again by the Cave Dweller Society - those who live with their heads in the sand and their assholes towards the sun!

Here are a few of their comments:

Linda
martham@y7mail.com

6:05 PM (1 hour ago)

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Drop dead you disgusting money grubbing murderer. See how you feel when your family dies and ones you love suffer & die. Because one day they will.

We hope you suffer 1000 times more than these innocent animals & curse you & your accomplices & anything you love....

What goes around comes around.

You are & will be hated the world over. How does it feel to be less than kak.

BeatrixBlink
beatrix@blink360.co.uk

12:38 PM (22 hours ago)

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Hello there,

Tell me, how does this work? I am Interesting of hunting homo sapients, you think you could help me out? Ideally, strong, tall, short haired and very rich.

Thanks for letting me know,
Looking forward to hearing from you,

Kian

Beverley Stringer
bev_stringer@hotmail.com

3:54 AM (7 hours ago)

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Why don't you assholes hunt each other and leave the animals alone, better still go hunt them without the rifles then lets see who the victor is.

Scum of the earth only hunt magnificent animals like these.

Sent from my iPad

marc de geyter
majdg@icloud.com

4:22 AM (6 hours ago)

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it's not funny to shot captive bred lions just to kill for fun, it's making money out of killing wild animals just for fun for some cowards and stupid minded people who like to kill living creatures and we don't need cows and chicken or other animals for human consumption, I'm a vegetarian and in good condition not like those fat people with hart problems and cancers that eating meat from industrial farms, meat full of antibiotics and hormones. Look at those hunters, most of them are fat and in bad condition, and very narrow minded, cowards. It's not difficult to shoot wild captive bred animals that have been used to people with sophisticate arms. Money that's all what your organization is interested in. I hope that in the future these corrupted organizations will be stopped by law. You wake up bunch of wild life murderers

Begin doorgestuurd bericht:

marc de geyter

4:51 AM (6 hours ago)

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let them live bunch of cowards, shame on you to kill animals just for making money, the way you are treated animals makes you uncivilized. It's not difficult to kill captive animals that have been used to people and than shoot them with sophisticate weapons. You are a bunch of corrupted criminals with the aid of corrupted politicians in Africa. You cannot respect life. This must end and lot of organizations against criminal acts towards animals all over the world are following your disgusting and cowards acts against those beautiful animals in the wild, they have a right to live in nature and you don't have to rule nature bunch of criminals. You should be killed, it should be better for the world and nature. You are a criminal organization that makes money of killing living creatures for money. The same mentality of the Nazis during World War II

Stupidity Prevails!

2013-03-16T08:29:00.006-07:00

ANOTHER CAVE DWELLER

Seriously with the huge amount of information available on why the managed hunting of Lion is beneficial to their survival - we still have those massively uninformed cave dwellers.

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Haley Mullinix
hpmullinix@gmail.com

Hermit speaks for itself!

2012-04-20T21:20:00.001-07:00

Ronald Coleridge coleridr@yahoo.com

Apr 16 (4 days ago)

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Disgusted by the King of Spain's elephant hunting trip to Africa I have become an advocate for stopping hunting us such intelligent & beautiful animals like the ones you promote to kill.

I read your disclaimer & let me respectfully tell you that you are wrong. The fact the the elephant or other animals you hunt in Africa are not on the extinction list does not make it right to kill them "for population & habitat management" sake. According to the WWF & many other reputed institutions there used to be hundreds if not thousands of times the number of wild animals in Africa compared to the numbers now (do some research before you call us ignorants ). If Botswana has an elephant surplus at any point in time, they can easily be used to repopulate other areas of Africa where they are now extinct thanks to hunting & the ivory trade.
Using your same argument, why don't you just start killing humans for "population & habitat management". For sure with more than 8 billion of us, we could use the help for the planet's sustainability!
Please stop trying to fool yourself & realize that killing elephants or leopards for the sake of human selfish leisure is just plain wrong!

Ron Coleridge

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So I don't really follow the popular press, as I have said it gets me VERY frustrated - too many uninformed people thinking they have a say in Africa's wildlife? - yet I have been drawn into a situation as you can see above and ALSO being interviewed by a young, Maria Ignacia Castillo from a so called Chilean Newspaper asking about elephant hunting.

I don't care what the popular opinion is at the time, I'm like an English Bull Terrier - I know what I am capable of, I know what I have done - so I lie in pure bliss sunning myself until I get attacked.

To be truthful, the Coleridge fellow above ( a fake name obviously) exposes his cave dwelling status by drawing upon wisdom from one of the largest conservation organisations who have officially recognized the critical role of hunting in the African conservation scenario.

Then Let's also be truthful, the socialist policies of the liberal Spanish government have caused the unemployment figures amongst the lazy and entitled youth, NOT - the King, regardless of his personal hunting trips.

Yet it again highlights the question of how UNINFORMED the masses are - they read billboards sponsored by PETA or some other claptrap money grubbing organisation and they believe it without question - turn the tables and they would question it immediately - There's no reason when emotion is involved - pure and simple.

Now Mr Coleridge believes that us hunters, me in particular, wiped out these hundreds and thousands of animals - us trophy hunters - from the beginning you see. The early Africans didn't eat meat they were veggies you see, WholeFoods was down the road in all of Africa; the colonialists, of course they only went after the gold and diamonds, not the herds to feed the masses that worked for them underground? Africa's vast herds were wiped out by the meat trade, much like the fate of the North American Bison, these were not hunters but more commercial meat providers.

I guess according to the Coleridge fellow, it is easy to repopulate Africa with the surplus Ellies we have in Botswana - a simple task indeed! Here you go Mr Ronald Coleridge - ask a bull elephant, weighing at least 3 tonnes to get peacefully into your truck (which has to be purpose built for a Bull elephant), then transport him 3000 miles on roads that almost do not exist - coupled with customs, immigration and paperwork that dogs Africa - if you can get this right my man then I will stop in my tracks, absolutely what I am doing and help YOU to do this - THIS I pledge here and now.

"easily be used to repopulate other areas of Africa" - try it my friend and see what happens!

I do however agree with him - population is the problem - so why is it so difficult to see that HUMANS are taking away the range of ALL animals not only the Elephant - this is the REAL problem we face.

Hunters don't add to this problem, they make sure, with their massive $$$ contribution to wilderness areas, that those areas remain free from human encroachment! Sure they are left there for hunting, that's why we pay the high fees - we know that generations will be able to enjoy the wilderness no matter what form it takes.

NOW HERE's the deal Bwana - as hunters we do NOT need to defend our position - we protect more of AFRICA on a daily basis than anyone can argue to - plain and simple - hunters conserve more than anyone else!

AGAIN I ASK THE QUESTION - WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR AFRICAN CONSERVATION - (other than your paltry $10 or $50 buck donation which pays for Ingrid's nails?)

WAKE UP!

Would your Government be WRONG? (just before an election!?!)

2012-04-17T19:22:00.000-07:00

From the halls of our SCI brothers:

House Passes Historic Hunting, Conservation Legislation

Senate Urged to Quickly Take Up Companion to H.R. 4089

For Release: April 17, 2012
Washington, DC – Safari Club International expressed its appreciation to the U.S. House of Representatives for passing H.R. 4089, the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012. The legislation passed on a bipartisan vote and will now be reported the Senate for consideration.

“The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 will preserve the rightful place of hunting, fishing and target shooting on U.S. public lands for generations to come,” said SCI President Kevin Anderson. “Millions of Americans, including thousands of SCI Members, hunt and shoot on our nation’s public lands. By passing this legislation, Congress has helped protect our hunting heritage for the future outdoorsmen and women.”

ChumamaBoko
The famous African Hunter and PH

H.R. 4089 included four separate parts. Title I requires hunting and recreational shooting and fishing to be recognized activities on all Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands; Title II protects recreational shooting on National Monuments under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management; Title III amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow hunters who legally harvested polar bears in Canada prior to its listing under the Endangered Species Act to purchase permits in order to transport their trophies into the U.S.; and Title IV clarifies that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the jurisdiction to regulate traditional lead component ammunition and lead fishing tackle.

“Sportsmen and women encourage the U.S. Senate leadership to take up H.R. 4089 and quickly pass it,” asserted SCI Chief Communications Officer Larry Rudolph. “Our national heritage of hunting, fishing and target shooting is constantly under attack by eco-maniac special interests who want to lock up our public lands and prohibit recreational uses. Today was a day of action and we look forward to the Senate proceeding forward with this legislation.

“SCI would like to thank those members who drafted HR 4089, Congressman Miller (Fla.) for introducing the comprehensive bill as the Co-Chair of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Hastings for his leadership in the floor debate. Legislation introduced by Congressmen Young (Alaska), Bishop (Utah), Benishek (Mich.), Flake (Ariz.), and Broun (Georgia) also contributed H.R. 4089.”

The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 was supported by a coalition that included Safari Club International, National Rifle Association, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, the Boone & Crockett Club, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, and over 30 other hunter-conservation organizations.
Contact: Nelson Freeman (Media@safariclub.org)

Safari Club International Hunters' Defense Fund supports the important advocacy, conservation and legal work keeping hunters afield and promoting hunting worldwide. Donations to the Hunters’ Defense Fund have a direct impact on our freedom to hunt, wildlife conservation policy and important legislative, regulatory and legal issues.

DONATE NOW: www.hunterdefensefund.org

Safari Club International – First For Hunters is the leader in protecting the freedom to hunt and in promoting wildlife conservation worldwide. SCI’s approximately 200 Chapters represent all 50 of the United States as well as 106 other countries. SCI’s proactive leadership in a host of cooperative wildlife conservation, outdoor education and humanitarian programs, with the SCI Foundation and other conservation groups, research institutions and government agencies, empowers sportsmen to be contributing community members and participants in sound wildlife management and conservation. Visit the home page www.safariclub.org or call (520) 620-1220 for more information.

Defending the Onceler

2012-03-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

Defending the Onceler

The old man shifted his gaze to the floor and lowered his chin at the same time, like a boy that had been scolded, he folded his hands in front of him in a fidgety fashion and said – “we didn’t know what we were doing back then, it was wrong, we took too many of them, how were we to know that they might all be gone one day!”

The misguided majority

In a perfect world everyone is happy, everyone is content and all dreams are fulfilled. Nobody holds regret, or hate, or malice, or revenge, or envy, or greed in their hearts, things are soft and cushy and padded and protected, we all feel safe and sound when we are tucked into our beds at night with bellies satiated, and little soft hands cusped in gentle bliss behind contented eyelids.

This is mother earth as she was before......., before they came! This is how it was in the beginning, everything was peaceful and quiet and we all had holistic non aggressive organic comforters and linen to sleep on, we peacefully played with the great elephants, and walked side by side with those hungry predators of the African savannah – the mighty Lions called Mufassa, and their cuddly cubs, Simba, who in turn didn’t acquire an appetite for his Warthog friend Pumba until the bad men came along. In fact the world changed forever that day, it was the very day that they arrived when things started going bad and terrible and all nastiness started creeping out in the things that were always good and perfect and peaceful – it was the day the Hunters arrived!

They glided in so stealthily and silently that nobody noticed until it was already a bit too late. You see there were no policemen or wardens or military, nor was there a government telling us do this or do that, there were no lawyers with names like “The StrongArm” and worse of all still, there were no animal rights and earth activist groups gluing doorlocks shut or burning down family homes to make sure things remained as mother earth had intended. They were not needed you see, because the earth was still perfect and pristine back then, no one argued with each other, nobody was ever murdered or abducted or raped, nobody went hungry, nobody felt unloved, no one was abandoned, there was no reason to go to war because everybody hugged and this made everything OK!

Our feelings, although sometimes hurt were always set happy again by hugging. Hugs were the universal currency of the earth back then – if you needed a steak, you hugged a cow. For breakfast you hugged a chicken, a cow and a pig whilst not forgetting to hug the corn which provided the grits on the side. You hugged your house each day for the shelter it gave, you hugged the rivers and the streams for the glass of water it provided, you hugged the air for the breaths you took BUT best of all you hugged the unicorns for the rainbow dreams they gave you each night. Later still you would start hugging a man called Steve Jobs for the wonderful shiny presents he made because within these flat tablet shaped looking devices, you would ultimately find the ‘good earth’ again and you’d no longer need to accept the reality that you lived on the bad earth that the hunters had ruined.

BUT the absolute worst thing these hunters did, oh the horror of it when I think back to that day, is when they told the animals on this earth that they would have a special place of their own to live, one that would be protected and guarded by men with guns so the animals could be safe and sound – national parks and reserves they called them. How do you think the poor little animals felt, being segregated from the rest of the world, not being allowed to wander freely through the mass of humanity, or fields of corn, or take the elevators in the empire state building – what racism was this that they excused in the name of protection.

No longer could we freely hug Mufassa and Simba (who by now had taken to eating the likes of Pumba) but worse still, we had to pay to go and see these creatures of mother earth and NO hugging was allowed for safety they said. Too many people they said, there were too many people on this earth, soon there would be no room for the animals so they had to be rounded up and sent to concentration parks where they lived in peace and solitude and took on their true nature – the worst – a hugless society! Who could bear living like that?

Cue the Lorax

Who can ever forget the Sneeches on the beaches with ‘stars upon thars’ and the poor plainbelly types – or Mrs McCave who had 23 sons and named them all Dave and better yet the magnificent and endless Cat in the Hat stories with Thing 1 and Thing 2 and the grumpy goldfish! A generation of us grew up with Dr Seuss, he inspired the limits of our imagination and twisted our tongues with his word craft and concoctions – I mean seriously what is a ‘Wocket’ or a ‘Foona Lagoona Baboona’, the ‘Gair’ and the ‘Glotz’ and who is Ziggy ZossFozzel!

In so doing, we learnt to read, we learnt to stretch our imagination and our writing and words took shape – we learnt to talk, read and write without the current god of the livingroom – Cable Television. His books were real, you held them in your hand, turned the pages and in your mind the characters and stories were real, a tale they told, instilled an idea, a concept which you understood – you felt as if you had accomplished something each time you read the book, it was an activity that you felt good about.

However of all the mastery in his tales and tongue twisters, none reached out to me more than The Lorax – the tale of the grumpy little yellow moustached man that appears out of a stump and speaks for the wilderness for it has no voice. To the child’s mind it is a story of a little musty old fart saving his friends from the cold and heartless Onceler – where he takes them we don’t know, he just comes and fetches them one by one as the sky gets steadily greyer and desolate. Perhaps the real Lorax concept was never grasped but it did tell of the value of saving the meek and caring about what might happen – unless!

In the end the Onceler, full of regret, tells the story of excess and disregard for nature in the name of commerce and industry, in the name of progress – ‘for business is business and business must grow’. Yet he leaves us and the boy, with hope as he yells catch - and as the last truffulla seed, the very last of them all, falls into the boys hands, we know that it might all be alright, that there is hope and possibility, that we all suddenly have a responsibility:

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Today there are a myriad of Loraxes out there, it turned out that many people care, wherever you look, you go, you read, someone is always speaking for something that doesn’t have a voice of its own. Suddenly there are a whole lot of ideas about who has a voice and who doesn’t, who needs to be saved and who not. Dr Suess it appears always had a hidden message in his tales, taking on racism, nuclear war and facism with some of his most popular characters and it was no different with the Lorax, first published in 1971 just after the first environmental ‘Earth day’ rumblings in New York. Since then our Walrus whiskered friend has become, perhaps unwillingly, the icon of environmentalism and conservation and the dandy of all who despise what the earth has become.

One thing is common however, amongst these Loraxes that is, they are always after your buck, using the age old ‘take pity on the poor little kitties’ as their main weapon of attack. The sad weepy eyes of kittens and puppies peer at you from up high on massive billboards, or glossy wildlife magazines - your donation could make a difference between life or the gas chamber! Donate generously to the Elephant orphanages, or those that look after the Cheetahs and the Chimps, and the Rhino's and the wee wittewle baby animals that are under constant threat from those bad hunters. They even pretend to be fancy ex-researchers who saved the 'kitties' yet have turned to the easy money - to hell with the Lions, I need to put my daughters through school Mr Kitty KAT.

Far removed from these apparently real causes, we immediately feel a pang of guilt perhaps, and coupled with the claptrap we have shoved at us on Animal Planet, NatGeo Wild and the Green channel, yes even NBC and Bill Maher, we dutifully fill out the donation form and sign off with the credit card details, knowing that the Rainbow Warrior will now be able to harass more ships. It is a reaction to the daily onslaught hitting us in the face as we wake up, the liberal press feeds off it, no news is good news and good news is bad news – we feel better about ourselves if we take a stance, regardless of who conjured it up, and then support this issue without really thinking about it, we live in 'the bubble' and of course everything that is on TV or the internet, is true of course!

I believe having the welfare of nature – in the millions of manifestations it presents itself – is always a good thing, no matter how you feel or what you believe when you pursue this cause, the protection and enhancement of the wilderness and it’s ‘people’ is always a good thing no matter what form it takes, passion to conserve is an admired facet. Unless people care enough, then we may end up at the Oncelers doorstep.

Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s because I grew up in a wilderness that has fast been eroded by the Onceler, but I tend to spend a great deal of time getting upset over the total insanity that prevails within the so called anti-hunting and modern conservation press. It’s not that I think they are misguided in some of their efforts, I don’t believe in animal testing and don't support canned hunting, what really gets me is that their whole premise of objection is based upon false and twisted information which is perpetuated by a largely ignorant public giving funds to them to continue this falsification. It's not about on the ground conservation, it's about raking in the dosh, paying myself a huge salary and then buying more billboard space to rake in more money.

These Loraxes don't conserve millions upon millions of acres of African Wilderness with these donations however, their main task is twofold - firstly make sure that each and every member of the organisation gets their cut so they can pay off their auto loan, their mortgage, get their hippie hair braided, and buy earth friendly soy burgers from Whole Foods AND secondly plough all the remaining funds back into perpetuating the falsification of reality with fancy ads, billboard signs and indoctrination of the youth in public schools! Now that's how your donation dollar is spent making sure generations will donate more based upon a false reality - a load of crap.

Look - on the issue of killing an animal in the name of sport (and conservation) there will never be agreement or any hope of sane argument between the two – let’s just accept that fact and agree to disagree. However to totally disregard the true facts, to pay money to organisations to twist these facts and then to live your life believing this untruth or misguided claptrap is a pointer to the very nature of the person themselves.

Enter the Onceler

No matter how you look at it there is a bit of the Onceler in each and every human being, think or say what you may, we are all part of the many environmental problems facing humanity – we as the human race are cause to this, you cannot blame the evolution of modern day society on one man even if he is a cartoon character or worse still the hunters. Far too often it is easy to put the blame onto someone else, it is never you or your kind, it is always easier to single out another cause for the woes of the earth because this is the nature of our society, the nature of being human. And as we progress in the blame game, the deeper we get into this form of retribution for the woes of the earth, we forget where we started, we forget who we are and we enter the realm of the surreal. There seems to be no sound logic or reason surrounding us anymore, it is simply what we are fed in the crusade against those that are to blame.

Yet we cannot escape this mark bestowed upon us all, as humans we are all responsible for the state of the earth we rely on to live, we are all to blame for the destruction and irreparable damage, our wanton excesses and demands for the new, the constant need for Thneeds – things we desperately want but have no use for.

Thus while we are all trying to defend our position, often vehemently from our therapy chairs, while we sling mud and scream bloody murder, while we pour our last pennies into slander campaigns and lobbying, nature stands by, watching and knowing that regardless of who wins that game, her game is surely lost.

The Onceler, as we been made aware of represents industry, capitalism, wall street and the big broker who steals everyone’s cash, the little guy on the corner selling his magazines and candy, the wealthy landowner, the filthy rich movie stars, yes he’s one of those trophy hunting types too, exterminating the endangering. The Onceler is government, he’s the IRS, he lives on capitol hill, makes bad decisions about the world, he’s the big oil and mining companies, raping and pillaging, he makes cars and trucks, airplanes, electricity pylons, dams pristine rivers and builds nuclear power plants. Yes, he’s THAT GUY, the one we must all look to for blame when we speak of the eminent demise of the earth as we know it and ALL the associated BAD’s that have happened since the dawn of humanity.

In 2011 the earth’s population reached 7 billion – the majority of this figure are poor people, in countries known as the developing world - the third world – characterised by poverty, famine, disease, civil wars and social strife. The prediction continues that over the next 30 years this figure will rise to 9 billion with a surge in the income levels of the impoverished and poor.

Herein lies the threat to wilderness and its protection - the glaring question: can the earth survive and provide for the current lot of over wanters as well as the growing needs and demands of an increasingly wealthier world. Demand, demand, demand, everyone wants an iPhone, a car, nice clothes, fresh sushi, a safe home, new shoes! We need power, we need construction materials, we need energy, we need food. Without destroying the earth further, how does one accommodate the populations surge – which we are ALL a part of, there is no blame here, you cannot arrest millions of mothers who give birth to the next generation nor can you impede upon the right of individual nations to curb population growth.

Unfortunately the countries seeing the majority of the population increase, are also the countries where the last of the earth’s great beasts reside, and to be exact, Africa and its magnificent creatures and expanses of wilderness. In those parts of Asia where the great cats, the elephants and rhinoceroses still survive, there is but little time and space left for them, simply put, they have been displaced from their inherited wilderness and now have to survive amongst the top predator on earth – man. So too is Africa's path, not now but eventually and with this will come the gradual erosion of the wild Africa we know and love.

There is no stopping man’s expansion, his ever growing need to develop and provide, it is human nature to procreate and protect your family, provide food for them and make sure they are safe. It is every man’s right, so too is it his right to harvest what nature has provided, no matter how short sighted this may be, no matter how destructive this could become. When your belly is lean and hungry and constantly makes those growling sounds, should you care about not poaching to feed your family, about not cutting down the 100 year old tree to get to the honey hidden up top? There's no food bank down the road, there's no government hand out or cheap housing - this after all is the real world, not 'the bubble'.

The problem facing Africa’s many endangered species is not the hunter as we are told on a daily basis, the problem with Africa’s beasts is that they are in the way of progress, they are in the way of humanity - plain and simple - man's need to grow is the real threat behind extinction, not the hunters gun. The magnificent Elephants, Lions, Buffalo, Leopards, Cheetahs, Rhinos - they all need space to survive, they do not live in a vacuum NOR do they understand the concept of National Park and reserve boundaries, no one told them that in the 1940's colonial governments restricted them to 'homelands' or 'reserves'. Africa to them is what it was from the dawn of time - it is their playground, their heritage and we are the imposters - man is the problem.

Look at those that are endangered –

The Elephant is no longer endangered, although still faces an uncertain future. Why? They are large pachyderms roaming many hundreds of miles to feed and do come into contact with humanity, cities and their food crops. Here they become what humans term crop raiders and have to be controlled which usually means the killing of the infringing animal. In addition elephant ivory is in high demand in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam (the Eastern world in general) thus making it a valuable commodity – meaning elephants will be poached and their tusks sold for money. This money is in turn used to buy food, shelter and blankets for the family who actually did the POACHING – they didn’t do it because they hate elephants – they did it for an end reason – to feed and shelter themselves - the nature of humanity

The African Lion is our largest predator, they are fearless and need to eat regularly, they also require very large domains to breed, grow and survive. Naturally, they come into contact with humanity and their livestock, they prey upon this and in turn are regarded as problem animals – poisoned or shot by the hundreds. It is not the trophy hunter who discriminately harvests one adult lion that is the problem – it is those people who live with Lions amongst them, in fear and in loathing that end up as their biggest anomaly – so too it is with the Cheetah and the Leopard, so too it is with the Caracal or Lynx – they are in the way of progress, they are in the way of those steaks, those lamb chops, the wool for our sweaters and clothes, the bacon for our tables. Sadly it is true!

This is a global problem, not only that belonging to the third world or the Onceler for that matter, our need, constant needs and wants – no matter what they may be are key to this problem and there is no end to it. So rather than ponying up to the reality of what the problem really is, lets pick on an easy target, one which actually does more good than any of the so called anti-hunting conservation groups combined – The Hunter!

Really People! In this day and age?

2012-03-23T22:00:00.002-07:00

So in this day and age, as I have said before, there is a total blinkered and uninformed view of what hunters and hunting actually does.

I don't really see the point in having to defend hunting from pricks as below because hunting and the funds generated are what keeps the conservation effort funded no argument about this - PETA spends the money you give them on advertising and paying salaries. Seriously if you are DUMB enough to believe that the controlled hunting of one Lion is a god given sin and curse then please - and then to bring religion and racism into it as well - come on "white asses"???? - if it was not for the Muzungu from across the sea who were the masterminds behind the establishment of Africa's national parks, the Africans would have fast eaten themselves out of house and home - this is a fact!

Ms. Sade mz.luvable24@gmail.com

8:59 PM (2 hours ago)

to info

If you are killing these poor lion you all need to rout n hell with you balls blazin from satan, u r are pathetic god has nothing good in store for your whit asses. Sorry lame ass son of a bitches.

SafariBwana

9:14 PM (1 hour ago)

to Sade

Who is God, I don't believe in it so I guess it's ok then! Ignorant asshole get the facts then insult me dumbfuck

Ms. Sade mz.luvable24@gmail.com

10:32 PM (30 minutes ago)

to me

No u dumb fuck, you think its cute to do that shit when it's not, you run and get shot and see how it feel.

We see you wont be living a long life, i hope you get attacked or shot in your process of being evil.

May the lions eat ypu if you are killing them.

SafariBwana

10:46 PM (16 minutes ago)

to Sade

They tried to eat me, I shot them and their lionesses and we sold the cubs into prostitution,
wake up ahole you are possibly the dumbest person to ever email me, can't u read, hunters
pay for all conservation, we are number 7 on the Forbes list as largest amount of income in the US,
all this goes to saving animals you stupid fuck, like I said read

OH and be sure to read my next article about the LORAX

Cave Dwellers and such

2011-12-07T07:12:00.001-08:00

For the uninformed majority of anti-hunters, those who pretend they have been living in a cave for the past 100 years, I offer some well informed perusal material.

CIC condemns the unethical manipulation of game animals in order to produce trophies
CIC confirms its support for fair chase hunting
CIC urges all hunters and hunting associations to oppose such unethical, manipulative practices

http://www.cic-wildlife.org/uploads/media/Rec_on_Wildlife_manipulation_EN.pdf

The reality remains, we do more day in and day out, in the field and internationally, to protect Africa's wildlife than any idiot who portrays to know it all about endangered species and their so called massive HELP by voicing their foul threats to the like of me and partners!

Society for the Un-Informed

2011-12-01T13:03:00.001-08:00

Here's the thing Bwana, I do get many emails that border on the verge of personal threats on my life however most of what I see, the emotion springing forth and the sentiments towards me shows a MASSIVE amount of stupidity. I guess everyone has an opinion however misguided or uninformed it may be - and this is the crux of these people's comments - they have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of the real situation and most of what they are led to believe comes from so called conservation organisations trying to make them donate money to a cause they only pay lip service to.

Charcoal headed for the city -
hunters stop deforestation through land protection

Most of these organisations claiming to save the lion and elephant, I mean the paltry bleeding heart ones, the ones with names like save the lion or save the elephant or lion aid etc. - all they are concerned about is making sure their next paycheck comes from these naive and uninformed misfits? After all that's the biggest business in Africa these days, fashioning a cause which pulls at the hearts strings and then riding the wave of donation all the way to the bank. I'd like to see the financial statements and annual books of these organisations that have sprung up to save the wildlife in Africa from the hunter - take a close look and see that most of the donated dollar or pound or euro goes to paying healthy salaries to the soldiers of the poor African animals.

You see there are more ways than one to skin a Kat, if you fail at all your other life's intentions, then start a mushy liberal save the lions campaign to pay your bills, after all bullshit is what you are good at!

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Eloise Cheney estherandhobo@hotmail.com

Dear SafariBwana,

Greetings.

I note with interest your angry response to people unlawfully stealing the 'intellectual property' that is rightfully yours, that is, taking your website information and distributing for their own purposes, without your knowledge and consent.

I note the strength of your response. How it really does bother you. You feel that it is unfair. That it is unjust. You feel that something valuable and important to you has simply been TAKEN away, by somebody very self interested, who had no regard for you, or your rights.

I wonder if you understand that this is how a great many of US feel. Other people who live in this world.

It is how we feel about YOU.

I look at the picture of the elephant you killed. I think "was it good? was it fun? Was it a really fun hour of your life?" For a moment of self pleasure, you took that away from me. Forever.

It belonged to me, that beast. To the world.

Not JUST you.

7 billion people on this planet. That elephant, that lion, that leopard, belonged to each of us.

But you felt you had some kind of right to take it for yourself. Just as did your 'poachers' when they 'stole' your internet material. Hunted it down, and took it. "But it's MINE!" you cry.

Well, a great many of us rail the same way, against you.

You don't seem to understand that taking it for yourself, bagging it, getting it, is inextricably involved with taking it away from someone else.

This was the point of the exercise, though, no? You know the theory of it. Trophy hunting is a simple notion. When you kill something, as you know, you claim it for yourself. You take a trophy to prove that it was you that took it. This is the challenge, and the glory of it. This is the kudos. It becomes yours. Yours, and yours alone, for it can no longer, ever, be anybody else's.

As a trophy hunter, you have already engaged with a fundamental part of this equation, the primal basis for trophy hunting, which is, you, and only you, are taking that animal for yourself. You are the winner.

Thus, I'm afraid, you must also accept that there is another half of the picture, and that is what you take that animal FROM.

And you take it from other people.

It was ours.

Mine.

My child's.

And yet you just killed it.

Took it from US, to have for yourself.

Apparently, (and why?) you couldn't share it. It wasn't enough for you to share it. It wasn't satisfying enough. It wasn't pleasurable enough. Is this the toddler's compulsion for stimulation? For gratification? Gimme gimme gimme? It wasn't enough for you to have the same ownership of it that we did, to share it with us.

Instead, it was only meaningful to you if it was yours and nobody else's either. Like a toddler, indeed.

Perhaps, like a toddler, you must be taught by example.

Every moment of anger, hurt, despair, frustration, that you feel about these things having been taken from you, stolen, you have inflicted them on a great many others in the world. The human suffering, fear, worry, sadness, loss, grief, rage, in other human beings that YOU and your actions have elicited... if you do not want to feel those things any more, simply stop DOING it. Stop taking what is ours.

If you do not want to be a victim of theft, then first, do not commit theft.

I will pray for you, that your worry, dis-ease, and anger are mollified over time, and that you feel better.

Because this may mean that you have stopped HURTING all of us.

God bless.

Esther

Our hunting area has a healthy pack of the highly endangered African Wild dogs
Without our ongoing protection they will be poisoned by livestock farmers

Heather G heatherg_za@shaw.ca

Your web site and your business is disgusting

Look at the hunters' expressions and look at the beautiful, defenceless animals

Shoot with a camera - like a real man !

heather

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Sophie sophie@slc-aesthetic.com

What a revolting way to make a living on the death of these beautiful creatures. I find it very disturbing the lack of compassion in you people, we all no this is no fair fight I hope it all gets banned, but no doubt people like you would be more than happy to break the law for your blood money. I hope in years to come these animals still roam but with outfits like yours I can see them become extinct. What sick people enjoy murdering animals, oh yes most serial killers started doing that how worrying.

S Z thenatureofthebeasts@yahoo.com

your site is pretty offensive and sad.

I understand you want to make money but Couldn't you make more money doing safaris and preserving these beautiful beasts and conservation efforts? as opposed to satisfying blood lust of republican wasps?

It really is atrocious

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andree hickey andree.hickey@gmail.com

what the fuck is wrong with you

Elephant peacefully breed and reproduce on our land
without hunting funds this protection would disappear

Nick Wright fitgeeza25@hotmail.com

Sick sick sick........

Do you realize the lion numbers are dropping in this world because of you sick bastards shooting them. Your all sick. Lion is a gorgeous powerful animal that needs to live for years but you lot keep shooting them. They are a endagered species and we are trying to save the lion, tiger, leopard and chetah. Please stop this sick murders!

our pride of 3 majestic lionesses have produced successive generations of cubs
without our protection they would be harassed and poisoned by livestock farmers

Stefan duToit africanlionkillers@hotmail.com

Hi Pete,

A group of us have been keeping an eye on you and your family, we are also aware of your movements and are waiting for the right moment to fuck you and your family up severely, we may not get you first, we may start with your family but we will hurt you like you have fucked up nature...sleep with one eye open dude.

Hunting funds have paid for the school these kids attend

Kendall Bernath kbmoka@gmail.com

How can you live with yourself? You help kill Innocent animals for profit. That is horrible! How can you sleep at night? What have these beautiful creatures done to you? God did not put these animals on this earth for you to kill them!!!!! All you want is the thrill of the hunt! Does it make you feel powerful or manly to kill an animal that does not even know you are there? Where is the sport in that? Even calling it a sport is wrong! I am truly curious, why do you do it?

Stacey Marrone duranfan19@gmail.com

I cannot believe how sick and disgusting this is.....your a disgrace to humanity

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So I ask the question - what have YOU done to help Africa's wildlife?????
read more here

They Live under ROCKS!

2011-11-30T08:48:00.001-08:00

Over the past 10 years I have had my fair share of hate emails, a couple of foul mouthed drunk dialers telling me off in no uncertain terms and a whole batch of calls for Jihad on my family and unborn children. The number of times I have supposedly had to watch my back because an ex desert storm sniper was after my blood for killing lions or leopards is insurmountable - you simply learn to live with it.

What I find alarming is the pure ignorance and misguided energy that these people have, if only I could take that and put it towards anti-poaching or developing some on the conservation areas I have under my control, I would have an unstoppable army.

There are many threats facing our wildlife in Africa and for us, as working professionals, I feel that we are the closest to knowing what they are. We are not a bunch of zealots hell bent on profit, we don't simply go out there and slaughter hundreds of endangered species. For many of us the only reason we continue to do our job is because we know that each and every day we are making a difference towards the survival of not only those flagship endangered species but to all the rest that no one really cares about.

We ensure that vast parts of Africa stay that way, the habitat remains safe from the chain saws of the hungry Chinese merchants, the ground unturned by ploughs and pesticides and the grass free from overgrazing by the thousands of cattle and goats. The questions is not one of us killing a well researched quota of game each year, it is more about the land that we are protecting in the name of this so called 'murderous hunting' that should be answered.

Now, here's the question - I have roughly half a million acres of African wilderness that I am working to protect - along with all the original inhabitants - the elephants, the lions, leopards, buffalos, kudu's, sables, roans, warthogs, elands, hartebeest, impalas, bushbucks, baboons, monkeys, mongoose, hyenas, guinea fowls, yellow fish, and the thousands of other species of birds, fish insects and Zambezia Woodland HABITAT.

Along the edges of this land live people that still suffer the vestiges of a long civil conflict, they are poor, under nourished and no education nor medical facilities existed. Before too long they would have consumed the land, it's inhabitants, trees and water and the game there would have have simply disappeared under the pressure of poaching and encroachment.

I came along, made a project proposal to the communities and this now has resulted in the formation of a wildlife conservancy - firstly to protect the habitat, secondly the wildlife and thirdly provide an alternative to the locals whose land it is, to make a living. They now have schools built by me, they have a clinic built by me, they eat well from game harvested during the year - THEY DON"T POACH ANYMORE - they share in a profit from the hunting and they have a permanent source of employment.

WHAT HAVE ANY OF THESE ASS HOLES BELOW DONE TO EVEN RIVAL THE AMOUNT OF TIME, MONEY AND EFFORT I HAVE PUT IN TO CONSERVATION?

I ask the simple question - before threatening to rip my head from my body, what have YOU done for conservation?

THE HATE EMAILS

Hello ,
You have no respect for the animals with whom we share this planet with. I can only hope to God that you and your army of shit scared trophy hunters who have no 'balls' that find comfort with a trigger will get your day and really hope you suffer and burn in hell for your actions you bunch of heartless, money hungry savages! What goes around will eventually come around....
How can you find pleasure by shooting threatened and endangered animals that cant even defend themselves? I assume its because you people are insecure about yourselves and the only way to stand out from the 'crowd' is to show off your pansy ass bullshit hunting skills. Any idiot with two brain cells can pull a trigger! Get a life you barbaric savages!
"Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten"
Cheers you ignorant fools,
David Bradley
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How can you talk about "ethics" and "values" when you facilitate the murder of all of these beautiful animals? You know there are not sustainable populations and it is people like you that will cause our grandchildren to never see these animals in the wilds of Africa because they will only exist in zoos. What kind of trophy is it to enter the world of an elephant and shoot it with a gun? What a hero you must be. How difficult it is to pull a trigger. What shortcomings must you be making up for? I hope your business fails or you and Molly get eaten by a lion.
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Fuck you for hunting elephants as a sport. You are disgusting masses of flesh disguised as human beings if this is something you actually take joy, pleasure, and pride from. I wish there was some alternate universe where endangered species were able to hunt you just for fun so that you could have a chance to experience what you do to other creatures. You could, one day, be responsible for the extinction of one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet. If only the world could push people like you towards extinction instead. Take a long hard look at what you are doing and what you are advertising on your website. Take some time to feel the shame of your actions, then put an end to them.
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To whom it may concern: Is it true that the portrayed douches try to make up what they are lacking in the penis department by killing helpless animals? How is killing an animal using advanced weapons in any shape or form praiseworthy? You white boys buy yourself a gun, shoot an animal, and think you've accomplished something. On the website, you describe your measly hope-this-makes-me-look-tough adventures as something next-to-impossible. You don't face the same obstacles as the natives did (and still do) decades ago. For someone with a spear or an arrow, killing such a large animal for survival was a notable event. For you white pussies shooting with a gun, this is just an excuse for a cheap thrill because apparently you can't thrill in bed. Best Regards.
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You sick people!
I hope some day you will be hunted down in the same way you hunt on innocent FREE animals. Who the hell are you to disturb their lives? You dont belong in this world, you should never have been born at all. When you die may you rot in hell for your sick minds and perverted behaviour. Fuck you.
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Apparently you "big boys" have NO BALLS! You think it makes you a "big man" to kill helpless creatures who are already in danger? Believe me I'd LOVE to shoot you and hang your sorry head on MY wall to laugh at! There's a SPECIAL PLACE in HELL for people like you! I CAN'T WAIT until your "sport" is OUTLAWED!!! I'll be sending your barbaric website to the 1000+ friends on my animal rights support list and hope they GIVE YOU HELL!!! YOU ARE A LOSER AND A DISGRACE TO ALL DECENT HUMAN BEINGS! I HOPE YOU GET EATEN BY A WILD ANIMAL!!!
I WONT MOUNT YOUR UGLY MUG WHEN I SHOOT YOU YA FUCKING BASTARDS
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Oh my god are you stupid Hunting Africa's wildlife is cruel how about you run out there and let a buffalo or a Poor Elephant shoot you for body parts huh how about i hang your head on the wall hunting elephants is Illegal and so is hunting lions you nimrods if I ever hear any more poaching going on in africa and one of the people is from your site I'll Become a poacher and hunt YOU
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You fucking bastards! I come from a family of hunters and have no problem with people hunting deer, moose, fowl, etc with the pretece of eating the creature and showing it some respect. I even enjoy shooting racoons with a pellet gun in my yard when they get into garbage. But think about how few lions are left in the wild! Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs, and all big cats are rapidly declining cuz of morons like your Safariwana. And its almost always annoying fuckin white South Africans or stupid fat Americans. These animals are the last of prehistoric felines. It took these beautiful animals millions of years to evolve, and people like you kill them for their furs or other personal gain. I would love to shoot a lion hunter and hang its pale or ****** face on my wall with pride. I hope someone shoots you. You guys should be trying to conserve the lion instead of kill it.
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Stop killing animals !!!! or hunt them barehand, no guns, to see how tough you are. Little faggs, you people have no balls, If I had the chance, I would love to hunt you and your family down. Just like you do with poor animals. You make me sick FREAKS!!!!!
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please answer me 1 question - how can you make a living out of killing these animals? Doesnt that play on your concious? Your poor sad individual, of all the things one can do with a precious gift of life, you spend your killing innocent animals? Your mother must be so proud of you

The colonels secret Spices!

2010-06-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

So here's the thing bwana,

what the F is it about Craig Boddington that makes him the ultimate guide on Africa??? Please tell me this, the man has only been on hunts into Africa as a client - for F's sake - who made him the know it all fellow. I mean seriously we can accept the BS ramblings of Flakkie but the now the ASG is saying that their African hunting guide is endorsed by CB - the tight shorts man which will surely make you buy it.

I tell this story day in and out, what has the African hunting industry become that we have to rely on a half baked reserve pencil pushing US marine to tell us what it is about??? come on guys, really - endorsed by this fellow? he knows the Luangwa after hunting there once???

Under his so called extreme African endorsed experience his daughter shot the shit out of her tracker - mistaking him for a charging leopard?? and then it was covered up!

I'm fed up with these like of boddies, shokkies and flakkie pretending that they are the ultimate authority under the pretence that they are doing it for the good of hunters - all they care about is money!

Playing into the hands of the Michelin Man

2010-05-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

Here's the thing Bwana,

the South African PH fraternity has been accused of recruiting hunters??? to poach rhino on their behalf? Now I cannot really decide if this is pure 'journo' stupidity or just a play on words because are PH's not hunters themselves and if they had to recruit the same, would they not save themselves some dosh and simply pot the rhinos from their vehicle windows?

Seriously, some very prominent professional hunters - upstanding members of that most shining and clean organisation PHASA (so ably headed by PB) - have been arrested as part of a large Rhino horn and ivory poaching and smuggling ring in South Africa. You may recognise these names - Gert Saaiman of Saaiman Hunting Safaris and Clayton Fletcher of that famous canned Lion place in the northwest province called Sandhurst Safaris - were arrested as part of a wider sting operation.

Now here we stand accused as African PH's in a wider sense, much as the malaise shout about hunters and drown out rational argument, and we have to bear this grudge and look it squarely in the eye. You see, these fellows are regular members of SCI and are donors at the conventions each year and are even touted by some of the members as good guys who offer fair chase????!

What I am getting at is that we PH's are not to be trusted, we are after all part of that most dastardly of groups called hunters - the ones that surely extincted the dino's and macdonalds free 1 dollar burgers - we are after all killers and what do you do with them!

The fellow, a tall black haired pony-tailed camel-man type who sweats too much, who I have called the Michelin man has a regular column in a fancy glossy photo mag about Africa and he is their anti everything consumptive squeeker. Now I have no doubt that he wears armani safari gear, no judron rugby shorts are to be seen hear his nethers - and he has to because his following are the wrinkled set with money to donate and creases to rub.

Yet he has the SA PH's by the shorts - poaching blatantly within the national parks and to be so dumb as to be recruited as grunts and fall guys. Michelin is probably so enamored with himself he is stroking the proverbial and this came to him without much investigation and strife. You see he says he got poacher 1 and poacher 2 (or something like that) to open up to him because they wanted to come clean and have a clear conscious? Hell they wanted the airtime and who the hell cares when you're capable of taking down a Rhino and making haste with it's horn in a few seconds flat? In gaol you want all the shit you can get and you'll laugh all the way back to your cell after having told Michelin this. Although I wonder - who will actually take the time to collaborate white fatty's story.

Here's the link, read it with an open mind because these PH's did, over a period of years blatantly POACH highly restricted and endangered animals for their own gain without a care while running safari outfitting businesses as well. They didn't take their own animals, rather they poached out of the Kruger and Natal National parks and on private friends land. Personally my opinion is these guys should have their noses sliced off and sold at auction and then they need to be imprisoned in Sudan where fleas have a hard time surviving the cells.

http://www.africageographic.com/blogs/?cat=5

The line between hunting and poaching, in this case has been merged and it is a sad day for the SA guys HOWEVER what it also says is that their national parks - although fenced and so called highly protected, are eventually catching up to the rest of Africa and the problems we face each day.

Michelin points to the fact that there may be parks people involved - welcome to Africa Ian - no doubt it is so and hey while you are at it, try and see if there are any unicorns left south of the limpopo. Surely this man preaches from a pedestal enshrined within the southern Africa tent - SA is OK (until now that is) Namibia survives, Botswana is well but what about the REAL AFRICA, get some experience here before you label all PH's as poachers.

Regardless, we carry on, we protect the swathes of Africa where we have temporary reign, no photo safaris want the land we occupy, too harsh yet we make sure our animals survive in breedable numbers and we make sure they are not eaten or poached for commerce - it goes without saying - it's what our job description is, no fancy resume's - this comes from within, instilled in my nature AND this is what people cannot understand - we don't fancify our jobs, we don't call ourselves conservationists and activists - we simply do stuff that others would never think of and may even ask to be paid for - it is within our nature and there is nothing that can ever change this.

It's like the Scorpion and the Toad:

Scorpion: Toad please help me across the river the fire is behind us and I will burn - I cannot swim and you are my only hope

Toad: but you'll sting me, we are mortal enemies and I will die

Scorpion: I promise Toad, I need you help and I will not sting you, regular rules do not count, this is mother nature at work, they'll be watching this on National Geographic.

Toad: OK hop on!

Toad: WHAT THE FUCK you just stung me - we are half way - now we both are in shit - we're going down I can't swim

Scorpion: Sorry Toad - I can't change my nature!

It takes all types and Mr Michelin Man - the good PH's do far outnumbers the bad apples - we are the true guardians of Africa's unprotected areas- we make a difference day in and day out - with our hands not from a fancy air conditioned office in Joberg!

About Peety Flakkie

2010-05-21T22:47:00.000-07:00

A couple of years ago an article appeared in one of the fancy so called african gazettes - you know the ones that tout fair chase usually through the antics of some famous or highly wealthy fellow. It was about Zambia and the Bangweulu swamps, about hunting there,about trying to shoot some of the endemic animals and about one man's discontent with what he thought as an arrogant people.

Now I don't usually point fingers but to say that the Bemba tribe are arrogant and self important is out of line, even if it was out of the mouth of your unknown PH and - in addition to pretend to be disgusted at the way a black lechwe was hunted is pure arrogance - how else are you going to sneak up on 10,000 animals 20 miles of flat open grassland?

You see, I must have come into the photographic lodge - not the hunting camp as flakkie was told, about a day after he left and I saw the excuse for a Sitatunga that he shot - it was a clear indication of PH failure - sorry to the PH attending but seriously, to blame a 23 inch sitatunga on the locals and the camp is poor form.

BUT what got me was this - the man - the so called greatest African hunter (from Africa) dissed an area that I hunt each year and hold very dear to my soul as one of Zambia's best - and here's the deal bwana - I have been hunting in Zambia since I was born - my father is one of the top PH's in this country - basically, we know Zambia. So for a glossy Magazine to print the mal-aligned ramblings of an egotistical "I know everything about Africa" hunter who actually heralds from the game ranch capital of the continent is very insulting to us as Zambian PH's and to be honest as Zambians. In a way the article was racist and I can see why our local wildlife authority laughed at the self important antics of this fellow- to call anyone arrogant, let alone to designate a whole tribe as pompous makes me wonder as to the genuine ethics of this fellow. You see the man portrays his hunting as the most ethical amongst us yet he clearly makes no bones about how he feels about the pesky locals, those whose area he has the courtesy of hunting in?

I guess it would boil down to this - who was the guide who showed him this terrible area of Zambia - what mood was he in and how much truth did he share with Mr African hunter himself! It is sorry indeed because I regularly take 28 inch sitatunga here, I love hunting the black lechwe, their lekking behavior makes it impossible to sneak up on a 1000 animals, all of them males with great horns. No one told Flakkie about the Bemba and their connection to Livingstone and their drive and pride, this is why they prosper in Zambia, forget the typical 'arrogant tribe' attitude, they are one of the successful peoples of the country.

So what this says to me is the guys who write the fancy books about being the be it all, know it all hunters across the continent, hell they are talking BS because it is all subjective, it is all according to their current experience and if they have a bad one the whole lot suffers - regardless of the PH or the outfitter. Seriously to base an opinion on Zambia's hunting as a whole upon one safari you now have sour grapes over is a F up flakkie!

Hollywood here come!

2010-05-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

Since I've been living in the US it has taken me some time to realize just how important television is to the average American - you see my wife works at the Denver Zoo and we were exact opposites when we first met however I'm proud to say that she now realizes what good hunting does in those areas that I ply my trade in. I think it had more to do with the simmering pot of bushpig stew than anything else that eventually tipped the balance but I will take my small victories whenever I can - they're few and far between! However on the subject of television I fight a losing battle day in and out.

So it transpires that our TV selection includes amongst other liberal ones, America's next top model, the John Stewart show, Meet the press, NBC Sunday mornings and other lefty stuff and I guess I am learning to drown out Matt Lauer, Meredith and Al preaching news and the like from dawn till dusk. However one thing caught my attention recently - some or other expert was saying that Americans do not like to be second - no matter what - and in this case they were talking about world leaders and how most Americans held within them this belief - that the good old spangled banner was still tops in all fields across the planet barr none and America led the way in all things decent. I have no doubt that it does!

Now I came from a country that is called third world - and still more appalling - it is in that most darkest of unknowns, Africa! Bear this in mind when I speak of the US being number one - on this list I think my country of birth belongs where it's alphabetical scale puts it - way down in the Z's. We've nothing to speak of when you look at the powers that be - we are a speck in a sea of shining achievements by other more gregarious nations. Yes indeed we are true to type - life is slow and unhurried, democracy is but an idea, there is never any crisis or fever that grips the nation and there is never a thought in anyone's mind about being first in the world except perhaps for fantasia dreams about our national soccer team, Chipolopolo, winning the world cup. Zambia is simple and sedate, yes we have our scandals yet if you're caught with 12 mistresses who say they still love you, you don't have to go into hiding - they hold a parade for you! However we are way up there in one thing, probably by default, and I was of the opinion that the US could never get close to us on this one - our wildlife and the hunting thereof.

But I digress, you see why I found this interesting has to do with an old PH icon, one many of us have forgotten and even heard rumors that he had been trampled - yes MR BLACK DEATH the ultimate first one and only world champion buffalo professional extraordinary hunter himself. OK I can't mention names, out of respect you know, but here's why Mr BD popped into my mind - I ran into him yesterday, not at the fancy diamond, gold, silver and bronze studded SCI show he so masterfully commanded a few years back - no it was at a paltry sportsman's deal in Denver, where I live. Of course I got all excited to see the man himself standing out above the mere mortals walking by, he does cut an impressive figure for an older PH and being 20 years his junior I must admit I was rather envious - last time I tried to get close to him in Reno he was surrounded by a pulsating crowd of middle aged safari goers who were snapping up his materials and, it seemed, were chanting his name in unison!

The man is famous for taking down that most feared and dreaded animal that lurks around every thorn bush on the African savanna - the Cape Buffalo - or black death as someone called it way back! Now there are many famous old hunters out there, some took down buffalo due to colonial orders, thousands of them, others pretended they took down thousands and wrote fancy stories of their exploits while some are still helping out the natives by depleting the stocks - however none had ever shot the hell out of so many black deaths and put it on film than Mr BD himself. Of course he was the bain of every other PH in that part of the world - you see he is American and us African PH boys tend to look longingly at them and their blond arm candy, their fancy double rifles and of course the cut off vests and massive bulging ammo belts! It was insult enough that he was not one of us - born on the slow continent - he was a foreigner BUT to top it all he came and showed us - can you believe it - how to hunt black deaths!

Hence the failed campaign against him at the fancy conventions - I remember one of my mates, in typical tight PH shorts, falling over himself to get the news to us, a beaming smile across his face - had we heard Mr BD had copped it from a back death! Regardless, I look at him as one of the pioneers in a hunting genre - not in the industry but rather a style - because hunting takes many forms and perceptions BUT without a doubt Mr BD created what has become the norm rather than the exception today, he is the undisputed world leader in the creation of the GoldenBalls PH! He is the GB pioneer and I felt saddened when I saw him without his usual throng of followers trying to persuade a lone kid as to why he had to pull both barrels at the black death before his client even had a chance! Here stood a stalwart of the Goldenball brigade and they had all but forgotten him!

I admit, much of this game we play is about image, no sane PH - African or American - will ever admit to failure and in fact will argue without hesitation that they are probably the best hunter in their part of the world - simply put, the safari industry thrives on our ego's. What Mr BD did was put it on film and he created a legion of followers and admirers to such an extent that one of the largest hunting groups in the US ascribes and promotes this style of shooting! When I tell someone I'm a professional hunter they stare at me with disbelief - no way - where's your camera crew - does the colonel endorse you - have you got your own TV show yet? hey wait... where are your buffalo hide boots... you're not a PH? The one I get the most often is - seriously you're the owner of SafariBwana - you????

Then there are the wannabees and there's a whole industry created around this, in fact I'd say for the thousands who attend these fancy conventions this is the essence of modern safari hunting, the crux of living the great African adventure - wear the boots that Mr BD had on when he blasted the back deaths - you too can own a double like his (if you can carry it that is) - here's the ultimate cut off vest, it has revolutionary tsetse fly repellant and comes complete with the colonels endorsement - how could you go wrong with this set of gloves, it's PH approved! Here, you can't possibly wander into the African wilds without your custom made lions tooth choke chain, and what about this set of anti fatigue wrist bands?

Well one thing is for sure, the American PH's have us severely whipped, they've shown us country bumpkins how to do it, they are the undisputed leaders in safari hype and hoopla! Just as Hollywood fosters hype around the famous actors, so these American PH's have created a new genre of hunting in Africa which fosters what you look like, what you wear and what awards you have, rather than focus on what you are hunting and how long you have been doing it for. These days it is not about the simple things anymore, it is about brand and money and not about the game you pursue.

And this brings me back to the situation in my very own living room and the battle for the remote! You see I come from a world where you never trust what they tell you on TV or in the press - purely because most of these are controlled by the man! Yet here in the US if it's on TV it's got to be true! I marvel at how the different TV stations report an event - to coincide with what they want you to believe, leaving out unsuitable truths. The same goes for our hunters on film, if you can see it straight up on a TV set in the US then hey it is damn right true!

I can tell you one thing for sure, there's allot that goes on behind a camera in the African bush and there's allot that gets left on the editing table, the stuff that doesn't suit the image. Hunting in Africa isn't air conditioned and climate controlled - any PH that tells you he knows 100 percent what an animal is going to do is lying, and anyone that tells you it was all smooth sailing and 100 percent success should be looked at with suspicion. It is high time that our perception of these safaris by the glamour boys was put straight - I look at the reality TV BS my wife is obsessed with and think, now there's something they should do on Africa!

Give us a real African hunting film, one that shows a worn out old PH beating and belittling his staff at every opportunity, getting drunk and cussing his clients or trying to fondle their wives, falling asleep on the back of the vehicle or having to borrow his clients bino's or rifle. Show us the pooping out in bush behind a large tree shot, show us one where the PH doesn't have a double but shoots just as well with a rusty old stick, where the PH actually admits he misjudged the trophy and it doesn't just have nice bases, it is a damn baby! Show us one where the PH stands his ground against shooting a Lion or Leopard just because it is the last day of the safari, where the PH turns down a wide set of horns because it is still young!

Show us one where the game officials ask for bribes and solicit money if they allow you to break the law, where they constantly beg the client for any of his gear and walk around with loaded guns all day, show us one where the customs officials confiscate the rifles because they see a graft opportunity, show us the poor Africa riddled with AIDS, corruption and hunger. Let us know about the unscrupulous owner of the hunting concession who got it through political favors and bribes, where the locals don't see any benefit other than the much hyped safari care package which is then commandeered by the chief, show us where the money really goes, who really benefits from safari hunting!

Show us one where the client shoots like shit, is afraid of his new rifle and can't hit a barn, where there's a trail of wounded game and spent shells, where the fancy double they bought makes them stagger around in the heat and ask for a gun bearer, where the genuine buffalo hide boots blister the hell out of their feet, where the client pukes on his buffalo once it is down or takes a dump next to the Sable he just whacked because he has a nervous stomach. Show us those who refuse to go in after a wounded Lion saying that's what you're here for buddy I'll stay on the vehicle!

Many of you know my thoughts on this subject, the one of the fancy professional hunters showing what I call disrespect for our wildlife - I get nothing out of seeing some half baked PH clapping his client on the back as a pack of dogs maul a wounded leopard, it's shameful, or when an elephant goes down and everyone starts whooping, this beast deserves more than a cowboy burial! These people preach sharing their hunting legacy with their children, they preach conservation yet the image they put out in no way shows the true respect that is needed for our wildlife in Africa, it is very much in the Hollywood genre and will continue to leave out reality.

Some would say I'm envious - perhaps, - no one refuses an engraved double with a pretty blond thrown into the deal, but more and more it seems to me that the safari industry has become too full of glamour and glitz, if you don't have a movie of yourself potting charging pachyderms then you're not up to scratch and no one will book with you. If you do not own a double rifle then c'mon man how can you be taken seriously and more important if you dress like a vagrant you are out of here!

Sadly our hunting has become much like Hollywood - the truth, the real Africa is no longer good enough, it is perhaps too real to accept - we need heroes and villains - we need branding, endorsements and product placement - we need experts giving their opinion and we need to hunt in a world that we like, the one on TV, not the real Africa!