Article: Elephant tramples South African man to death in Zim

F***ing poachers :mad: But the man should've known the risks by being on the bank.
 
jes said:
Zimbabwean conservation officials blamed poachers after an elephant trampled a South African man to death in Zimbabwe, Beeld reported on Thursday.
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I think its elephant revenge. The Farmers Weekly is a conservative, sober and slightly stodgy magazine aimed at a farming readership. It is not given to sensationalism. The elephant are banding together in Zim and attacking because war has been declared.

From the Farmers Weekly – 7 March 2008 – Pg. 8 – ‘The Crying Game’ by Sara Webster of Johannesburg.

After hassels with exorbitant fees, electricity and water at Hwange in Zimbabwe she decided to go NW to Kazuma Pans after strenuous discouragement from officials. She went anyway. The nights were silent and the few animals were skittish. Then she found the killing fields (elephant). The children stayed in the car, crying. She looked in the Visitor’s book when she returned to the lodge. Some extracts: (minus the bla, bla)

…secured a 65 pounder, 43” sable and a 7’6” leopard
…Jim’s leopard, eland, kudu, sable, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, hyena and baboon.

The last recorded hunt was in August 2007 by 3 hunters from Utah, Minneapolis and San Diego. The ultimate brag was

“169 elephants in 8 days. Nowhere comes close.
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**169** elephant!!!???

The power of the US dollar. Let us all pay homage. A few dollars to bling-crazed Zimbabwean officials (who don’t care) and we can do what we want. We’re American and the world is our oyster. We can destroy and trash other people’s countries; they’re furriners and not Amurican from the land of the free and the home of the brave. They don’t count.

And these psychos claimed they were hunters! A genuine hunter knows more about conservation than any 10 tree hugging, “Save the Whales” groupies. That’s the problem. **Generally** hunters have a much better grasp of Conservation (big C) than others. This is not hunting (its slaughter) and hunting is being brought into disrepute.

The American ‘hunters’ are being held to higher standards than the bling-crazed Zimbabwean officials who only see the short term. I would not expect anything from the clueless and grasping Zimbabwean officials However, they [the hunters] should know better.

The elephant are not distinguishing between American psychos and South Africans. A ‘friendly fire’ casualty.
 
MAkes me sick.. lets go shoot some poachers. If it is as easy for the futters to get hear it should be as easy to go there. :mad:
 
you know, i am very sorry that this guy got killed but he should not have been on the bank, and he should not have run or done any sudden movements when the herd came into view. by doing both of these actions he caused his own death. the guy was on foot so i would be willing to bet that the elephant thought the guy was a poacher and the elephant reacted accordingly. even though the elephant acted accordingly to what it thought was right, the elephant will suffer as well. nothing was said in the article but i would be willing to bet money that the elephant was found and culled because it was considered a man killer.

sara webster is dead on when she says that elephants have declared war. animals, mainly elephants have had enough of our human nonsense and are now fighting back. wasn't too long ago that i read something either in a book or in a paper about a poacher being killed by an elephant. the rangers investigating said that by the tracks that were made by both the poacher and the elephant they figured the elephant had been tracking the poacher for a few days before it killed the poacher. sorry there is no link, can't remember where i read it and after doing a search can't find it on the net to give a link.
 
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