‘Canned hunting’: the lions bred for slaughter (Video)
Canned hunting is a fast-growing business in South Africa, where thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters.
Patrick Barkham
They are adorably cute, with grubby brown fur so soft it seems to slip through my fingers like flour. It is only when one of the nine-week-old cubs playfully grabs my arm with its teeth and squeezes with an agonising grip that I remember – this is a lion, a wild animal. These four cubs are not wild, however. They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion’s Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg. Tourists stop to pet them but most visitors do not venture over the hill, where the ranch has pens holding nearly 50 juvenile and fully-grown lions, and two tigers …
The Guardian – Monday 3 June 2013
www.guardian.co.uk/environment…
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Dog treats made from endangered whale not sold anymore
by Tokyo Times
Japanese company Michinoku Farm had stopped selling luxury dog treats made from endangered North Atlantic whale meat after a campaign by environmentalist groups …
The Tokyo Times – Monday 3 June 2013
www.tokyotimes.com/2013/dog-tr…
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Morning Star: “Shame on you, Iceland” for Bloody Whale Hunt
Whale hunting in Iceland is the topic of an article written by Peter Frost in the British Morning Star today. He harshly criticizes president of whale company Hvalur hf for his plan to hunt and kill up to two hundred of these amazing and threatened animals …
News of Iceland – Monday, 03 June 2013 13:32
www.newsoficeland.com/home/bus…
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