Push for ban on Australians taking part in 'canned hunts

[Cuppa]

About the only thing this government has done of which I approve. Shame they are less keen to care about what is important here.

[NP99]

About the only thing this government has done of which I approve. Shame they are less keen to care about what is important here.

Surely learning Latin at school is a good thing? Not

[macca86]

WARNING MAY DISTURB SOME VIEWERS GRAPHIC CONTENT
The canned hunting I've seen normally takes place in pen but these are big pens I'm talking 10-100 acres not a back yard size and are normally older animals on the way out but it's still dangerous as is any hunting a pig will take a leg or arm off if it gets you imagine what a lion who feels trapped will do. Shame this lion didn't get him but it shows the danger involved
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLzirV0rYk

[threedogs]

It looks so wrong on many ,many fronts
He needs new underpants after that lol

[jack]

Watched a doco on this some time ago by Louis Theroux, do a search on Louis Theroux's African Hunting. Was quite interesting as it attempted to explain both sides do the story.

Not for me - I support fair stalk.

[Rumcajs]

I'm not sure what to think however I will be against any attempts by any governments to do a lazy way out by banning things. It doesn't work. Creating nanny state society doesn't work and doesn't help anyone.

Why does a man think he can control/regulate nature. If an animal overpopulates it will suffer the consequences. The same will be with humans.
Currently they overpopulate at the expense of animals but eventually they themselves will face the "music" once the planet's resources are exhausted.

This whole notion stinks, I'm sick of this Australian way of thinking that one can regulate/ban behaviour or actions of others. It is a bit rich of tosser Australian politician to lecture others about proper way.

I hope South Africans will tell these tosser to piss off and look at themselves and their behaviour before attempting to lecture them.

Clean up your backyard first!

I don't condone this "hunting" if it can be called that but we have more important issues to deal with then bother what is going on in South Africa and some Australian looser paying for his trophy!

I hear the word ban and I'm reaching for my proverbial gun if I had one!

Cheers

[Family4x4]

I agree with the post above. Kangaroos are a prime example, where I live there is a huge over population of roos mainly caused by the availability of feed on farms.

For years there has been huge opposition from people in regards to culling these roos. Unfortunately the same people opposing the culling don't see the full picture. This years we had good rain fall over summer but just a few years ago we were in drought and if the feed is not there a large proportion of the roos die from starvation.

One thing that bugs me and it may be a poor view on my behalf. I was in Melbourne a few months back and on Flemington rd there was a huge billboard for the Greens. The irony was not lost on me as I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Are alot of greens supporters living in the inner city, man's furtherest thing from nature. The greens are the people opposing the culling of these roos, perhaps they should come to my place and watch roos slowly starve to death, but then they would probably blame global warming.....

I also trophy hunt deer, and I will do it again.

In relation to canned hunts I'm not sure I could make a call as I am lacking the right information. I.e. How much does it cost? Where does the money go? Does the money help the species?

At this stage of my life I would not part take in a canned hunt as its not how I would like to go about my hunting.

As a hunter what I find more disturbing is that some people take part in hunting species knowing they are about to be put on the endangered species list.

[macca]

As a hunter what I find more disturbing is that some people take part in hunting species just before they are put on the endangered species list.

We are a strange species.

The young woman all this started with has a rhino in her trophy cabinet, we thought they are protected, possibly an old and or sick one so can be killed by a paying customer. Still not right, finances might overcome moral concerns.

[Cuppa]

I have no problem with hunting to eat or to survive, nor for necessary culling & vermin control.

I have to say however that I find the idea of trophy hunting, killing a beast just to hang a part of it on the wall as decoration & for bragging rights to be really quite unsavoury.

Worse still is the view that the bigger or rarer the beast the greater the trophy.

I grew up with my father a gamekeeper & me earning pocket money by helping out with pheasant shoots for the rich & wealthy. All the pheasants shot were reared for the 'sport', but all shot became food. Many sold to butchers, but pheasant was a staple in our family.

I have had firearms since childhood, but have never shot anything wild, bigger than a fox. I've had to shoot injured & sick stock, as well as stock for our freezer.

I'm not some 'townie' who fails to understand the thrill & adventure of the stalk, or of the skill required to be a successful hunter. I'm not averse to accepting an offered gift of some fresh wild venison, but what really sickened me was finding a large full grown buck deer laying in the bush close to our property in Gippsland. The whole bloody carcass just left to rot in the undergrowth. I hope the bastard who severed the head of what had clearly been a magnificent creature just because it had a beautiful set of antlers can live with themself. What were they thinking when they pulled the trigger. More likely they were thinking of themselves with no sense of respect for the animal.

Unless the target is genuinely for eating &/or there are genuine ecological or protective reasons then why kill at all. Use the skills, do the stalking & shoot the animal with a paintball or similar & put the photo of the success on the wall.

[kevin07]

how pissweak is it to put one of these majestic animals in an area of no escape then shoot the poor thing for a photo I know what I would shoot. and that dog on facebook that killed the elephant among other great animals I would stake her into the middle of a termites nest. jeez I kept that cleen