Maybe, but I wouldn't think your typical deer hunter who goes about their hobby the right way (getting proper licenses every year and so on) would be okay with this guy.

I know my uncle had plenty to say on it when I called him for his birthday yesterday, and he's shot everything there is to shoot in the Catskills many times over in the last 30 years.

Wrong, I live here and my employee's sister actually knows the guy. The majority is outraged and Ive only seen one person say "who cares" and zero trying to defend.

The orange sign is pretty great.

Also love the little lion in the door handle.

I lol'd at catlivesmatter.

That's the best one yet.

wtf is on their heads? Is that a plastic sunflower?

WTF

How about a 12-hour moratorium on the dentist guy so we can hate on those clowns. The more I look at their picture the more wrong I see

Haha

If there's a documentary of this protest, Wes Anderson should direct.

ok, I've switched sides, shoot those two with an arrow

The guy calls himself a comedian on twitter, so I doubt the absurdity of that picture was accidental.



https://twitter.com/Ben__Goldsmith
https://twitter.com/LSKilpatrick

so another wanker wannabe superstar hijacks a serious issue for his own gain.

+1

Also, it's a Lion ffs.

yes, this is why 99% of the responses in the thread are very annoying!

if this kind of lion is endangered, the ONLY way it will survive is if rich whitey is willing to pay thousands to shoot it. that's the only incentive for the locals to keep it around. otherwise, there's a F*CKING LION running around in their village and they will kill it themselves and all they will get is a few meals and a hyde. nobody wants a lion in their back yard. and nobody in america will ever know or care.

easy to feel sorry for the lion when you're safe and sound in america where your only wildlife threat is the occasional ******ed deer that can't avoid a car. we would much rather that majestic lion can be free and safe in the warm embrace of mother nature so it can die of thirst or starvation instead of a bullet.

A baller troll needs to head up there and behead all the stuffed animals imo.

The truth is that this particular lion, being as famous as he was, enabled an entire village (as well as several peripheral villages) to survive off of the added tourism that his world renowned charisma provided. This was a horrific loss the the local economy and the government is reacting quickly to bring this loser to African justice.

American wealth is already resented, this sort of blatant disregard for the poor local people is very sad (as well as this being a wimp scumbag move) and I'm hoping they ship him back to Zimbabwe (Thank you Clinton!) to face the fifteen years he deserves.

Fido lookin' mighty horny there. I think there will soon be more reports of animal casualties rolling in over the next few hours.

The lion was lured from the Hwange National Park, a game reserve for lions, leopards, hyena, cheetahs and wild dogs among others. If Africans are building their villages inside that park, they shouldn't really complain if one of those animals goes on a killing rampage in their village.

lol what an idiot. surely lions would be extinct a long time ago if this was the case.

Cmon guys, ya'll are smarter than that.

ok. so the tour guides broke local laws and killed a lion that a reserve laid claim to? highly doubt that whitey had any clue that was going on. he probably thought it was one of the countless legitimate hunts that go on there. only one more clueless than whitey was cecil the lion. should have stayed on the reserve.

from the article linked on OP:

such gentle creatures. but i'm sure cecil was just a peach, not like mean jericho.

why are they going extinct now? too many white people paying $50k to shoot them?

Augie you're way off on this one

Actually there is some truth to what he is saying. I was initially outraged when I first read the report like many of you but after doing more research it seems the only way to actually protect the endangered animals in Africa, is to make them valuable enough to the locals so that they don't kill them. Charging these extremely high fees to hunt them accomplishes that and also gives them incentive to make sure they keep reproducing and maintain a stable population. I'd prefer there is a better way, but so far, nothing else has worked. In Western African countries that have banned lion hunting, locals in those countries have almost wiped them all out as they are worthless (and a threat) to poor farmers and locals. They poison the watering holes where they drink to get rid of them. It's easy for us to say they shouldn't do that but our cats and dogs are living more comfortable lives than most of the people over there.

I found this to be an interesting read touching Augie's side of the debate.

Our planet is pretty much screwed. We need to find a solution to stop the rain forests from being destroyed too.

Case in point -Ducks Unlimited, where the efforts and money of duck hunters have done a lot wrt wetlands conservation.

ROFL!

Not inside, but maybe around. The guide's land is next to the reserve and the lion walked out of the reserve onto the guy's "ranch".

I'm not a big fan of baiting on a hunt, but it's long been a standard practice in Africa, especially for leopards. Here in the U.S. it's common for people to grow feed plots to lure deer onto them. I grew up in a hunting culture where it was illegal to bait critters (Arizona) so it seems uncool to me, but it's been a standard practice for a long, long time in various hunting situations.

Our planet is pretty tough. It's been through a lot worse than what people can do to it.

What rain forests are you talking about? Not the amazon I hope, That's not rain forest, it's jungle. Washington and Oregon have rain forests.

I was thinking Malaysia area where they are turning everything into Palm oil plantations. I don't know if rain forest was the correct term or not. Also, I agree our planet is pretty tough but as long as the human population continues to grow eventually we are going to reach a tipping point.