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Leopard attacks hunter

Alex Eliseev | 2 Hour(s) Ago


ER24 has confirmed that a leopard who had been shot and wounded by a foreign trophy hunter in Limpopo struck back on Sunday morning, by attacking the team tracking him.

A Polokwane game farm guide and his wife were mauled in the incident and airlifted to hospital for treatment.

It is understood the animal was shot on Saturday night and the hunter and his support team spent the night tracking him.

ER24 spokesperson Andre Visser said, “The leopard stalked and attacked the foreign client.”

The leopard’s condition and whereabouts are unknown.
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!
 
daveza said:
Bonus ! - pity the leopard didn't get a trophy to hang on the wall.
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I'm glad he went for the guide and his wife, even though they're not doing the hunting, its scum like this that enable the hunting of our wild life
 
You people do realise that legal hunting and conservation pretty much go hand in hand these days, right? If there weren't any hunters there would be a hell of a lot less protected land for wild life to live on? Also, foreign hunters bring in much needed foreign currency that provide jobs and other lovely economic type things.
 
Nick333 said:
You people do realise that legal hunting and conservation pretty much go hand in hand these days, right? If there weren't any hunters there would be a hell of a lot less protected land for wild life to live on? Also, foreign hunters bring in much needed foreign currency that provide jobs and other lovely economic type things.
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Yes. While true, I can't help but find trophy hunting extremely distasteful.
 
daveza said:
These hunters don't care a toss about conservation.

If they did they could just donate money towards it.
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*Sigh. First of all, I didn't say hunters gave a toss about conservation. I said legal hunting and conservation go hand in hand. As in, for the industry to be sustainable, conservation of species is pretty damn key.
Secondly, to assume hunters don't give a toss about conservation is just... it doesn't actually warrant an argument.
 
copacetic said:
Yes. While true, I can't help but find trophy hunting extremely distasteful.
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More distasteful than taking pleasure from an actual person who has as much chance of being a good, family man, with people who care and depend on him as you being mauled of possibly killed by a leopard?
 
Nick333 said:
More distasteful than taking pleasure from an actual person who has as much chance of being a good, family man, with people who care and depend on him as you being mauled of possibly killed by a leopard?
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I'm sure there are rhino poachers out there who are good family men with people who care and depend on them too
 
good,family man

learn to read punctuation.

Ja, I'm sure you can make an argument equating legal hunters with criminals who are driving a species to extinction for financial enrichment. I could could make an argument equating legal hunters with anyone who eats meat. We don't need to eat meat and no method of slaughter is free of suffering for the animal. I guess meat eaters deserve to be gored by bulls.
 
Nick333 said:
More distasteful than taking pleasure from an actual person who has as much chance of being a good, family man, with people who care and depend on him as you being mauled of possibly killed by a leopard?
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If people want to go out of their element, and cause an animal unnecessary pain (imagine running around the whole night with a gunshot wound?), I struggle to dredge up sympathy when the animal fights back.

The animal has no choice in this, yet the humans who do, still take the risk.

I'm not celebrating the pain of the mauled person, just not enormously sympathetic is all.
 
So, it's ok to kill animals as long as there's no chance of them suffering longer than a given amount of time?
 
alf101 said:
The point here is that the animals are being killed and maimed for amusement purposes.
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Ja, but great big herds and flocks of animals are killed and maimed simply because eating meat is convenient and pleasurable. Why is killing animals because we like eating them more tolerable than killing them because we like killing them?
 
Nick333 said:
So, it's ok to kill animals as long as there's no chance of them suffering longer than a given amount of time?
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Well, as a meat eater, I certainly can't make any claims as to the general killing of animals.

In an ideal world, full of morally aware omnivores, if we are going to kill animals for food, we should make definite efforts to minimize their pain and suffering. Hunting is not a situation where this can be easily controlled.
 
copacetic said:
Well, as a meat eater, I certainly can't make any claims as to the general killing of animals.

In an ideal world, full of morally aware omnivores, if we are going to kill animals for food, we should make definite efforts to minimize their pain and suffering. Hunting is not a situation where this can be easily controlled.
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Not as easily controlled, but a quick kill is the desired outcome. Basically you're making a good case for canned hunting. By your argument killing leopards is ok if it's reared and slaughtered under very controlled conditions.
 
alf101 said:
I think you can easily work that out for yourself.
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I can and I have. Mass killings of animals for your convenience and pleasure is more tolerable to you because you have set an arbitrary level of suffering an animal should endure for the sake of your convenience and pleasure that conveniently matches one that allows you to eat meat with a clear conscience
 
Nick333 said:
Not as easily controlled, but a quick kill is the desired outcome. Basically you're making a good case for canned hunting. By your argument killing leopards is ok if it's reared and slaughtered under very controlled conditions.
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Are we killing leopards to eat?
 
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