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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2019, 02:08 PM Apr 2019

Big game hunter who has killed more than 5,000 elephants says he is 'totally unrepentant'

An African hunter who claims to have killed more than 5,000 elephants says he is 'totally unrepentant' about the deaths he has caused.

Ron Thomson, 77, who worked in Africa's national parks for almost six decades, claims he was not hunting the animals for pure sport but was managing population that would otherwise have got out of control.

However, animal rights campaigners point out that elephant numbers are in steep decline and say 'management culling' is often used as a cover for trophy hunting.

Mr Thomson was forced to defend his record after a report by the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting branded him one of the world's most prolific elephant killers.

On his website, Mr Thomson also claims to have killed 800 buffalo, 60 lions, 50 hippos and 40 leopards.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/big-game-hunter-who-has-killed-more-than-5000-elephants-says-he-is-totally-unrepentant-after-being-named-in-investigation-into-plummeting-numbers--and-admits-killing-60-lions-50-hippos-and-40-leopards/ar-BBVLoow?li=BBnb7Kz

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Bayard

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1. Bastard
Tue Apr 9, 2019, 03:21 PM
Apr 2019

From the article:

"That total does not include kills he made while leading a culling team that shot 2,500 elephants and 300 hippos in Gonarezhou National Park in the 1970s."

And,

"The problem is we’ve got a bunch of so-called experts from the West telling us what to do. I’m a trained university ecologist – I must surely know something about this.'

The harm this one "human" has done to the earth. No redemption. No mercy.

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