Not charged. Convicted. It's time you started looking up definitions.
Nobody walked up to this lion to feed it. Where did anybody say that happened? Food can just as well be left by people who geniunely want to feed the animal as those who want to poach it.
this is why i hate social justice warrior vigilantes.
so he fucked up, let the law deal with him.
lolIt's the motivation behind the killing that bothers me. Farmers do it becuase they need the money, not because it's fun, hunters make shit up like "a deeper understanding of nature" or needing the food to justify that they like shooting at live targets.
Maybe some US prosecutor can get him under the Lacey Act
Under the Lacey Act, it is unlawful to import, export, sell, acquire, or purchase fish, wildlife or plants that are taken, possessed, transported, or sold: 1) in violation of U.S. or Indian law, or 2) in interstate or foreign commerce involving any fish, wildlife, or plants taken possessed or sold in violation of State or foreign law.
The law covers all fish and wildlife and their parts or products, plants protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and those protected by State law. Commercial guiding and outfitting are considered to be a sale under the provisions of the Act.
They ought to simply institute a shoot on sight rule for poachers.
Not in this country. It's time for you to go to reading comprehension 101.
"Of course, it is a personal achievement to harvest any big-game animal with a bow and arrow," said [the curator of the bow-and-arrow recordkeeping group]. "It is a way of honouring that animal for all time."
Then why bring up feeding it? Leaving food out for anything that comes along isn't feeding this lion either. Oh wait, that's right, they left it in the cat's food dish.
I bring it up because I believe the guides understood this particulars lion's relationship with humans, and believed that they could lure it out of the protected zone with food. When I say feed, I don't mean they dropped some tuna in a "cat's food dish" for it to snack on when it got hungry. There is no doubt in my mind that the guides placed the fresh carcass of an animal that lions typically eat at the edge of park in order to lure one out of the protected zone.
I love this quote from the link in the OP.
Does that sound twisted to anyone else?
That is how you poach lion. By baiting it, wounding it, tracking it for forty hours, and then decapitating it when it can't run anymore.
Zimbabwe is pissed about this. They might do everything they can to crucify this dude.
those animal's lives are worth more than some piece of s**t hunter's who goes to kill one of them
Shitheads who think its wrong to take an animal's life but OK to take a human's life for taking an animal's life are shitheads.
no animal is worth more than a human
Not in this country. It's time for you to go to reading comprehension 101.
Shitheads who think its wrong to take an animal's life but OK to take a human's life for taking an animal's life are shitheads.
It's the motivation behind the killing that bothers me. Farmers do it becuase they need the money, not because it's fun, hunters make shit up like "a deeper understanding of nature" or needing the food to justify that they like shooting at live targets.
no animal is worth more than a human
LOL, this dumbfuck thinks he's superior because he goes to the store and buys his meat that spent it's life in a cage before it was bludgeoned to death.
Crawl back under whatever rock you crawled out from, worm.
Dr. Palmer didn't eat the lion. He and his hunting party cut its head off, skinned it and left its carcass on the ground. Not sure I see the relevance of your post.