We are raising the money to open a large scale wildlife sanctuary to benefit all of South Africa's wildlife; all moneys donated will be matched rand for rand by Beverley and Chris from their personal funds
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The Campaign Against Canned Hunting was founded by Chris Mercer and Beverley Pervan. After years of campaigning using their own savings, they established a not-for-profit Section 21 company (NO.2006/036885/08), which is dedicated to getting all trophy hunting banned in South Africa.
Canned hunting is a repulsive process which involves the captive breeding of wildlife, typically in appalling conditions, solely for the purpose of hunting it within a fenced compound from which there is no escape; there are many documented eye witness accounts of such appalling situations as lions drugged and shot within tiny holding cages, rhinos killed with multiple pistol rounds over the course of an entire day and the use of weapons such as crossbows, arrows, spears, knives and packs of hunting dogs to kill a variety of big game slowly and painfully.
The practice spawned in South Africa and has been exposed widely in the past by British and American journalists, however a beaurocratic smokescreen erupts with every exposure and the practice expanded, now occuring in other African and Asian nations and even in the developed world of the USA and Canada, today, even organisations such as WWF and the IUCN have begun to support trophy and canned hunting as a way of raising income, without stopping to ask how the money paid to hutning camps will ever find it's way into conservation programs.
Based in South Africa, we focus on addressing the problem here, but we also speak on, advise and support the issues raised everywhere we can; Chris regularly travels all over the world giving talks to the public, wildlife parks and organisations and delivering expert opinion directly to leaders of nations.
We believe that African wildlife is South Africa's greatest national asset. The protection of our future cannot be left unchecked to an often self-serving, morally depraved conservation bureaucracy. Nor can the exploitation of our national heritage be permitted to continue with such shocking cruelty that ordinary decent people in the first world recoil in horror, and respond by boycotting South Africa's goods and services.
The stakes are high: the hunting fraternity and its "nature conservation" accomplices are, in effect, seeking to hold the nation to ransom. Compassionate South Africans are invited to stand together to fight this dreadful conspiracy, and bring the cruelty to an end.
As in Kenya, all trophy hunting must be banned. The export of wildife bodyparts (trophies) must be prohibited. This fragmented, incompetent nature conservation regime must be dismantled and replaced by a more competent, streamlined service which is dedicated to protecting, not exploiting, our wildlife heritage.
Kimle tanışmak isterim: People who oppose trophy hunting in all it's repulsive forms, people who believe that conservation shouldn't be a smokescreen for exploitation, people who love our natural world and want to fight to protect it.
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Think of all the innocent souls that will lose their precious lives
this hunting season. Support Anthony Marr's Anti Hunting Alliance www.HOPE-CARE.org
I am appalled that they sell lion meat They had a restaurant in Florida in the USA who had it on the menu, but took it off after disgruntled customers complained
a ‘Former‘ Hunter’s poem * * * A hunter shot a flock of geese That flew within his reach. Two were stopped in their rapid flight And fell on the sandy beach. The mail bird lay at the water's edge And just before he died He faintly called to his wounded mate And she dragged herself to his side. She bent her head and crooned to him In a way distressed and wild Caressing her one and only mate as a mother would a child. Then covering him with her broken wing And gasping with failing breath
She laid her head against his breast A feeble honk...then death. This story is true though crudely told I was the man in this case. I stood knee-deep in the snow and cold And the hot tears burned my face. I buried the birds in the sand where they lay Wrapped in my hunting coat. And I threw my gun and belt in the bay When I crossed in the open boat. Hunters will call me a right poor sport And scoff at the thing I did. But that day something broke in my heart And shoot again? God forbid! ~author unknown~
"That's the first 'hunter' I like". Hope your weekend started well and will be perfect all the way Always Liz
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“Compassion is most important for happiness. We must treat fellow human beings as equal, that is very important, but also all beings who have capacity for feeling. So the innate desire for happiness that is the basis of human rights extends to all sentient beings, including animals and insects. There are now some individuals and organizations who care about animal rights and are showing concern about the suffering or torture of animals. I have noticed among ordinary people, out of their love and compassion, growing efforts for promotion of vegetarianism. These are the right kinds of expression of compassion, very positive and encouraging signs. ” ~ the Dalai Lama ~
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission – to be of service to them wherever they require it. If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~ Francis of Assisi ~
“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man. ” ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
"Shark finning" is when fishermen cut off the fins of the shark and throw the live animal back into the ocean in order to save space on the boat. The shark drowns or bleeds to death on the ocean floor. Shark fins can sell for over $300 per pound due to the demand for shark fin soup, an Asian "delicacy". Some species of shark populations have plumetted by 99% in the last 20 years and are in danger of becoming extinct, due mainly to the practice of finning.
HERE ARE 8 SIMPLE WAYS TO HELP STOP SHARK FINNING:
1. Don't eat shark fin soup! Don't eat in restaurants that serve it until they stop.
2. Support organisations that are fighting to save marine wildlife such as Sea Shepherd and Wild Aid.
