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Melissa Bachman and the rape of Africa

11/22/2013

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Melissa Bachman and the rape of Africa.

Melissa Bachman is a symbol of everything that is wrong in South African conservation.

Let’s forget the cruelty for a moment.  Let’s also forget that the killer is a celebrity TV presenter.  Let’s just focus on the consequences of her kill, and particularly on these two questions:

How does killing lions save them?

How does captive breeding of lions contribute to conservation?

Money! say the hunters, the lion farmers, the taxidermists, and the gun manufacturers.

Money! Money! Money! says the S.A. Government. It is Big money – but it does not go to real conservation, which is the preservation of natural functioning ecosystems. It goes in to more and more hunting farms.   

So Melissa Bachman proves that conservation has been monetised.  Like the shadow banking system that nearly brought the world’s financial system crashing down in 2008, wildlife has become securitised: sliced, diced and turned into AAA tranches for Asian Crime Syndicates. 

We now have a shadow conservation system.  In this new system, Africa is not a lady to be treated with love and respect.  Africa has been turned into a whore who has to be raped. 

Anyone who speaks out against the rape of African wildlife is labelled a racist, a radical, an extremist – even a terrorist. 

Those who participate in the gang rape are labelled responsible, conservationists.

It gets worse.

Now there are degrees of rape, which are called sustainable use.  Rapists are not supposed to gang rape Mother Africa to death.  She must be left alive so that they can come back and gang rape her again next year. 

Now we can place Melissa Bachman in a conservation context:

1.    She kills a captive bred, tame lion.  A cruel and pointless act that contributes nothing to lion preservation.

2.    She pays large sums of money to enrich lion farmers, whose breeding activities have nothing at all with conservation.

3.    On the contrary some lion farmers even procure poachers in Botswana to kill wild lions and capture cubs for use in their captive breeding farms.

4.    The aggressive lobbying by the hunting industry is a distraction, moving the debate away from the real issues facing lion conservation.  i.e loss of habitat and encroachment by rapidly expanding human populations.

5.    The bones of the lion she shot will be sold to Asian wildlife traffickers, creating yet another threat to lion survival – a booming lion bone trade – and therefore increased wild lion poaching in Africa.

In short Melissa Bachman is directly contributing to the extinction of wild lion populations in Africa.


18 Comments
shweta
11/21/2013 08:23:35 pm

She is a threat to wild life. Case should be filed against her and all who assisted her in providing means to hunt under wild life prevention act by all animal welfare associations.

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Milli from Cape Town
11/21/2013 09:22:42 pm

I do not know who Melissa is but she is a Terrible role-model for our youth! Please Melissa, you do not have to kill sentient Beings to feel important or powerful or accepted! You do not have to kill anything in order to fit-in. The beauty of Africa is lost on you if you believe that the only time you can feel the 'rush' is when you are squeezing the trigger and watching an animal bleed, suffer and die. You are in a position where you are an example to others, especially our children, and I ask that you use that position wisely. Please reconsider your choice to kill animals of any description. There must be a better way...

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Pamela Case
11/21/2013 09:48:47 pm

I'm sorry, she is the devil personified and needs to account for her actions. So big and strong shooting an innocent animal, wow hide behind your gun. You want to be a hero, make it equal and fight one on one. The problem in SA is our government won't stop this, as they all on the gravy train making money of this cruelty. Our precious animals in Africa ( that roamed this land free and wild before us) are now becoming extinct. It is sad, they are not only killing our beautiful animals but South Africa as well. Hope all involved in these hideous and cruel deeds burn in hell for eternity. She is not a woman, she is a rapist and a killer, hope her fate is slow and painful

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Dai
11/22/2013 02:49:36 am

Slaughter is the only description for this evil act. Great being "brave" behind a gun. Hopefully one day your conscience may help you realise how cowardly and ugly your so called "sport" is......God help you

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Scully
11/22/2013 03:05:59 am

I am a firm believer in Karma and 'what goes around comes around' this vile woman along with those who harm animals will without doubt get their comeuppance, I just pray that justice will act quickly to stop the pain and suffering that these poor creatures go through. This is no conservation but a greedy trade in animals killed for sport.

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David Bernazani
11/22/2013 11:26:50 am

Hey Melissa! How does it feel to be the most reviled woman in the world right now? How do you like reading your fan mail? I wish I lived near you so whenever you went out I could tell you what a scumbag whore you are. I think I'll look for your Facebook page and tell you!

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mrs janet pedley
2/20/2014 01:59:58 am

Sadly David there is no way to get in touch with her, I think everyone feels the same. She is a disgrace to humanity. There is one picture of her with another big male Lion and she is posing with a can of beer in the lions open jaws, its beyond sick and I too would love to live next door to her on the other side from you and we could make her life hell!

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Ady
11/22/2013 11:35:24 am

I am glad that the bigger picture was pointed out.
The government, the land owners and the shooters are all to blame. Habitat lose, killing of wildlife, poaching and money going to the wrong areas. A huge problem. This fight is worldwide. Rhinos, tigers, lions,whales, seals, elephants, gorillas, the list is massive. When will we learn

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Armando C. Ramirez
11/22/2013 01:39:48 pm

Please stop entrance to South Africa and other countries for this unconsciousness woman.
She don't deserve to travel in the world joust to kill animals for fun.
Thank you,
Armando

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CARLA AFRIKA
11/22/2013 01:56:52 pm

I cannot stop feeling SICK and being depressed by these murderers. STOP KILLING ANIMALS NOW, please.

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jana kurtycz
11/22/2013 08:09:39 pm

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Rudyard Harrison
11/22/2013 10:04:53 pm

To me, canned hunting is close to setting pound dogs lose and allowing people to shoot them for fun. I simply cannot understand what any civilised person can gain from killing a beautiful wild animal, no matter how scarce it may be. Hunting animals in captivity must be one of the cruellest and most brainless past times.

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Jason Savage link
11/22/2013 10:35:45 pm

Melissa Bachman is an embarrassment to the USA. We too have canned hunting here in the US. I saw one such farm in Texas. Melissa has boasted that others should learn to enjoy the hunter's lifestyle. I believe she should come to feel the pain of the animal's she's hunted. Ms. Bachman, and those possessing her mentality, are destroying our planet's wildlife. And for what? So they can get a rush from killing. These people are definitely a few bricks short of a load. One day these people will realize they have left no legacy for people to remember. They will be forgotten forever. Good riddance to them all.

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Andrew Okello- Syata
11/23/2013 11:19:24 pm

....Start Global Petitions - over 4 million Tourists visit African National Parks per year less than 0.5 percent of these support Game Hunting in what ever forms ......Petition Tourist Federations- Airline Companies- AND YOUR GOVERNMENTS and the boycott of tourist destinations and Governments that create legislation for the legalized massacre of Animals .....Vote with our consciousness.......let people say I will not visit or trade or by products form a Country that my money will contribute to keeping in power a Government that lives of the death of Lions

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boyd
11/25/2013 08:15:23 am

One sick woman running around the world with a gun . SHE MUST BE STOPPED .

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Thelma Schimit
11/28/2013 09:28:23 am

A horrible human being ... no justification is plausible for this. There is no merit in pain or premeditated and cruel death of any living being.

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Heta
3/23/2014 10:25:17 pm

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Heta Rousi
3/23/2014 10:29:27 pm

I just for a confirmation to My doupts about WWF, for They Also Support canned Hunting! Cannot believe that! They, too are all about money! Stopped supporting them. This Melissa Bachman is such a sad person Inside!

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