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Banks that finance canned hunting

1/20/2019

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​Letter to SA banking institutions
Att: Dept of Corporate Social Responsibility
Re: canned lion hunting
 
We draw your attention to the recent policy decision by Nedbank to withdraw funding from captive lion breeders in SA.  http://m.traveller24.news24.com/Traveller/Explore/Green/major-sa-bank-refuses-to-fund-any-canned-hunting-programmes-20161027
The decision to cut off funding to an industry whose sole purpose is to produce living targets for a depraved hunting fraternity follows a growing trend. Our national Department of Tourism no longer promotes cub petting (a profitable spin off) and major tourism associations in EU like ABTA, publish guidelines for their members to discourage visits for cub petting, and volunteers from paying to pet lion cubs at lion farms posing as ‘wildlife sanctuaries.’
Australia, France and Netherlands have already banned the import of lion trophies, and most major airlines now refuse to transport hunting weapons and wildlife trophies. If you provide funding to lion farms, you should be aware that:
  • They have no conservation value
  • They impact adversely upon the survival of already reduced wild lion populations all over Africa
  • They feed the fraudulent lion bone trade to Asia
  • Their whole business model is built upon routine cruelty to lions at all stages of their lives, right from being removed from their mothers unnaturally at birth, to their brutal deaths by bullets or bow and arrow.
Because of the existential threat to wild lion populations throughout Africa, the IUCN recently passed a ground-breaking Motion 009 calling for lion farming and canned hunting to be banned. The considered advice by this pre-eminent global conservation authority, 1,300 organisations and 16,000 conservation scientists, have been treated with contempt by Minister Edna Molewa and her DEA. She gave no reason for doing so, but we know the real reason: regulatory capture.
State capture is all the news currently, but in truth, regulatory capture by powerful industries like hunting has been the norm for decades. Conservation has not been spared. Hunters control conservation structures in SA as completely as if they owned them.
If government is thus paralysed, and the 8000 captive lions in SA are doomed to a life worse than death, then it is up to corporate South Africa and a public that loves wildlife, to take a principled stand.
We urge you to emulate Nedbank’s ethics and  to withdraw funding from lion breeders and all the accessories, the hunting operators, the taxidermists who prefer to live off bloodshed than to find honest employment.
We leave you with some of the views expressed by Australian MPs in the Parliamentary debate which preceded to ban on import of lion trophies.
Sincerely
Chris Mercer
Director, Campaign Against Canned Hunting.
MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM THE DEBATE ON CANNED LION HUNTING IN THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT.
Jason Wood MP:
I spoke in this place in May last year about the appalling practice of canned hunting and today I rise with the knowledge that my words back then are resonating increasingly in our community, in our parliament and around the world. People see this practice, as I do, as cruel and barbaric.
Many believe that hunting of endangered species has economic and conservation benefits for countries involved. This is simply false. A report written by Melbourne economist Roderick Campbell from Economists at Large showed that revenue from trophy hunting represented only two per cent of tourism in Africa and that this tourism revenue is only a small fraction, considering that it is $200 million whereas the economy is $408 billion. Sadly, there are only 7,000 to 8,000 lions left in captivity, 160 of these in privately owned canned hunting reserves.
 
Mr Entsch MP:
It is not often we quote a thrash metal band in this chamber, but Megadeth's song, Countdown to Extinction, highlights the practice perfectly:
Endangered species, caged in fright
Shot in cold blood, no chance to fight
The stage is set, now pay the price.
An ego boost, don't think twice
Technology, the battle's unfair
You pull the hammer without a care
Squeeze the trigger that makes you 'Man'
Pseudo-safari, the hunt is canned
 
Ms Parke MP:
I believe that canned hunting is another example of animal cruelty in which Australia is currently complicit by allowing the importation of hunting trophies. By not acting to prevent the importation of hunting trophies, we are effectively supporting an activity which is both cruel and unethical, a form of barbarism that has a direct impact on endangered species we have committed to protect.
 
Mrs Prentice MP:
Frankly, I call this sport un-Australian. Australians pride themselves on living by the creed of a fair go. Where is the fair go for these animals?
 
Ms Hall MP
Trophy hunters are attracted to a situation where the animal is in an enclosed space and has some level of trust of human beings. I am not a person who supports hunting, but, to my way of thinking, this is quite a brutal and inhumane--
Interjection by an honourable member: Cowardly.
Ms HALL:  - and cowardly attack on defenceless animals.
 
Mr Kelvin Thomson MP;
It is barbaric killing for macabre trophies.  The idea of killing animals for sport is frankly barbaric and medieval but, if people really want to do it, then at least we should have a level playing field. The lions have teeth and claws; so give the hunter an appropriately sized knife and fire up the lions a bit before the contest by not feeding them for a couple of days. That would be fairer.

9 Comments
Tamara Rakic
1/20/2019 03:40:56 am

I my opinion any hunting is inhuman

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Alexander Hakam
1/20/2019 04:09:33 am

Stop this cruelty immediately!
Hunting is for Cowards hiding behind their guns!
Animals are Sentient Beings!
Leave all Animals alone!
Shame on you!

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Faye O'Shea
1/20/2019 07:06:03 am

Why would you support animal abuse and extinction ???????????

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Leanne Lang
1/20/2019 12:28:43 pm

This sadistic and barbaric industry needs to be stopped and all those who blatantly support it either financial or in participation need to remove themselves from any association with this industry. You are supporting something that has no conservation value, just a quick way fo hunters to have the perfect head for their wall.

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Megan Gardner
1/20/2019 11:31:17 pm

Canned hunting is morally and ethically wrong. Commodification of the wildlife is a crime against nature. Anyone who can justify this industry is clearly in the industry and in it for one thing, money or they are a psycho hunter. There is enough evidence to prove this industry does NOT help conserve wild lions. What an appaling way to treat the king of the jungle. South Africa should hang its head in shame.

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Angela R Cancilla
1/21/2019 11:21:57 am

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 Killing for fun.

And 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 any communities is lost. Fact is they do not.

Remember 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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Michelle van der Merwe
2/14/2019 04:07:00 am

EXACTLY ! Grown boys that have no balls.

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Alice Baertsch
1/21/2019 07:26:44 pm

Please protect our animals

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Chris imber
2/13/2019 01:46:53 pm

KILLING IS NOT CONSERVATION
LIONS ARE ALMOST EXTINCT

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