Guest guest Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 - ECOTERRA Intl. Sunday, November 02, 2003 3:33 PM United against " canned shooting " Why can such fellows not just shoot themselves ? Pls: Join the campaign against the US-SA axis of " canned evil " ! NEW YORK GOVERNOR PATAKI APPROVES " CANNED SHOOTING " OF ANIMALS Despite overwhelming legislative support and thousands of calls flooding his office, NY Gov. Pataki vetoed a bill that would have banned the inhumane trophy shooting of exotic mammals held captive on fenced property, so long as the " canned hunts " take place on property greater than 10 acres. Whether eleven acres or eleven hundred, guides who work at canned hunts know where the animals feed, know how to trap the animals in corners of fences, and accompany their clients to guaranteed shots at point-blank range. Governor Pataki's decision to veto this much-needed legislation will result in untold suffering for wild animals. Call Pataki's office and let him know how you feel about his veto of S.2735a, and for his complete disregard for the animals and for public sentiment. Phone: 518-474-8390 Fax: 518-474-1513 Email: http://www.state.ny.us/governor/form.htm For more information, please visit: http://fund.org/library/documentViewer.asp?ID=1086 & table=documents Join GPUSA online at www.greenparty.org or via snail-mail to: The Greens/Green Party USA PO Box 1406 Chicago, IL 60690 1-866-GREENS-2 ------------------- Hello from the Kalahari in South Africa re Canned lion hunting in SA We are in the process of putting together a Pan-African group of animal welfare orgs with a view to making a unified approach to European and North American wildlife orgs, asking them to support our call to get canned lion hunting - this has recently been extended by the SA government to all predators - banned. We would ask all first world orgs to lobby their own governments to ban the import of African trophies, in order to complement our own efforts. Ideally, there should be a unified, co-ordinated campaign, using whatever methods and strategies the welfare orgs consider appropriate to their own circumstances. This email is to notify you of what is happening, and to enquire if you would like to assist. Below are some of our reasons for taking up this cause. Kind Regards Chris Mercer and Bev Pervan Kalahari Raptor Centre http://www.raptor.co.za Tel: 053 712 3576 " First They Ignore You; Then They Laugh at You; Then They Fight You; Then You Win. -Mahatma Gandhi CANNED HUNTING IN SA Canned predator hunting is not an event, but a whole process. It is a process where animals are taken out of their natural environment and placed in factory farms to be grown out like broiler chickens for slaughter. It is a process whereby the public's wildlife heritage is transferred out of the public domain into the hands of hunters for business purposes. It is the privatization of our national heritage for cruel profiteering. This is theft on a grand scale. Consider the website of one captive breeder and canned hunter, www.africancats-hounds.co.za In accordance with the new adopted policy, JS Safaris will hunt any predators, large and small, with dogs. Photos show a leopard being savaged by dogs. Photos also show lions who have been shot with bow and arrow - after being hunted with dogs. What has conservation come to when tame lions can be turned out after a life of imprisonment to be set upon by a dog pack and then used for archery purposes? And why are our lawyers content to let time drift by so carelessly. Look at canned trophy hunting. Chucking a few dollars at local landowners in order to pillage our wildlife heritage is not conservation, it is colonialism. When organisations such as Safari Club International in U.S.A. patronise this industry, they export US dollars and colonialism to Africa, and they import misery and bloodshed in the form of trophies. Their dollars are a corrupting influence in the third world, perverting conservation policies away from preservation towards the cruel exploitation of wildlife. Nor are the colonizers all rich whites. The forests of Indo Asia were looted to procure tiger bones for the Chinese traditional medicine trade. The genetically similar lion is already being used for the same purpose. The fate of the tiger will be the fate of the African lion if we do not act now to stop it. The axis of evil of wildlife exploitation now presents a global challenge to our wildlife. The hopes for a better life for millions of Southern Africans may eventually be held to ransom in this way by a small group of foreigners and the corrupted soldiers of fortune in South Africa who supply them with their living targets and/or body parts. And we allow our treasures to be looted because of the ethical illiteracy of those in conservation who could stop it all tomorrow. Our views cannot be disregarded as white elitism. Take Credo Mutwa, one of the leading African philosophers and authors. Talking about lions, he writes: " No one in their right mind would ever travel to India, and massacre the white Brahmin cattle that roam the crowded streets of India's cities. No one in their right mind would travel to Siam and there murder the rare white elephants that we find in that country. But people come to my motherland, people come to South Africa, to brutally murder .lions in the name of manliness and in the name of sport. 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