A large bull elephant was shot and killed in Zambia this past weekend by a trophy hunter.
The term ‘iconic Tusker’ was used to describe the elephant and celebrate the hunt, but it is not clear if this was indeed a true ‘Tusker’ (with tusks weighing 100 pounds on each side).
It is estimated that there are fewer than 50 true Tuskers left in Africa, and probably only 25-30.
The hunt was reportedly legally organised through Stone Hunting Safaris, where hunting in Zambia takes place in “the Luangwa Valley, Kafue Flats, and Bangweulu Swamps in governmental conservation areas or large privately owned ranches, depending on the required species”.
Game Animals of the Past and Present posted their congratulations to the hunter on their Facebook page, saying:
“Biggest elephant shot in Zambia in decades, iconic Tusker. Well done great trophy
?and yes all meat was utilized donated to local villages and schools. Lot of money was payed [sic] for the license to shoot the bull and that money goes towards conservation of not only next elephant generations but the whole ecosystem there benefits from legal controlled hunting.”
Game Animals of the Past and Present explained, in reply to numerous comments, that all parts of the elephant were used.
The hunter receives the skin and tusks, and the meat is donated to local villages and schools.
In addition, the money paid by the hunter goes towards conservation practices in the region.
May the hunter be an elephant in the next life. May the elephant be a senseless trigger-happy hunter in the next life. In the next life, may the elephant (hunter) hunt the hunter (elephant).
As a proponent of wildlife conservation, I don’t think the licence should have been granted for this tusker. With roughly 25 left in the whole world and probably 2 to 3 in Zambia based on the great elephant census, this animal should have received special protection status. Very sad indeed
I can tell without any doubt the the issuance of hunting licenses just like everything else under PF is marred with corruption. Local communities do not benefit in any way from this heinous activity.
The breaking up society we are is a sad state of affairs no law and order people still hunt elephants?
What message are you sending to uneducated poachers?
I strongly agree, this issue has to be investigated. We can’t afford to lose these animals for the sake of fun, it’s atrocious.
This should stop immediately. Why hunt animals in this way. I am very disappointed .
So when a white person shoots and kills African wildlife they’re ‘trophy hunters’ and we should respect and support them cause look! The elephant will feed a whole village!! But when a local African shoots and kills an elephant they’re a poacher and should be put away for life. I hate this racist world.
There is nothing racist here and avoid using strong words loosely – poaching and legal hunting should not be equated and learn to appreciate the differences.
How much was raised to kill this elephant ??
PF corruption again, they will not even tell the nation how much was raised while lungu steals buffelos in secreate to give a child abuses.. ..
The PS and the Minister of Tourism & Arts are i-fipuba! Ni ba swine! The new PS is corrupt as hell! Ni ba ma kaka!
How sickening! Selling out your wildlife for the love of money. Which European country will allow you to gun down any of their animals just for the fun of it?
But which schools are these where you can donate game meat? We need to see how much the license was and where exactly that money went! If indeed meat was genuinely donated, the license paid for, and the elephant was an old elephant nearing its end days then this is better than having a poacher gun down the poor animal!
You have to be a citizen to hunt in America. In Africa, just as long as the person looks like Pontius Pilate the give him a license. This is I*****ic and very wrong.
This s illegal.
What inteligent creature kills another creature for fun?
This practice should be condemned in the strongest terms possible. These is nothing to celebrate here. This is extremely primitive.
Guess what, just like in the case of $42M, nothing wrong will be found with this operation.
How in the hell is it STILL legal to hunt an animal whose population is approx 23-30?! Absolutely disgusted beyond words. Conservation?!?!?! The only way that money could go to conservation is if it magically gave birth to an elephant. Killing as a means of conservation is the biggest bullsh*t lie out there. All ‘research’ that supports this was conducted by pro trophy hunting orgs, as if it’s in their interest to put out unbiased information. All studies NOT backed by hunting orgs find the exact opposite. I’d suggest everyone reading this who disagrees do some research on their own, but knowing the sheer stupidity of people, they’d use the study they found off ‘totallyNotFakeNewsISwear.com’ as their source.
shoot it with a camera many times, more money
dora sylia
Cry or laugh ………., at the ‘good deed of sharing out the meat, to starving villagers?’
Photographing and viewing wildlife brings in much more revenue then kill game hunts ever do from those small privileged entitled groups.
The problem is a total lack of transparency derived from the income of . Having trophy hunting as a conservation tool, comes with many problems because we don’t know where the money goes.
We only know what the hunters pay, but after that … finding out whether the money actually helps conservation or communities is lost.
Trophy hunters and many regular hunters hurt the gene pool because they look for the strongest and most beautiful and leave the rest …exactly the opposite of predators in nature that ..seek out the weakest to eat.
“Allowing Hunters to be managing wildlife is like allowing alcoholics to be managing a bar!”
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