ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo)

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I checked out this "hunting forum"....let's just say that I wasn't pleased at all.

Some of these idiots were offering large sums of money to kill one of the last five remaining male lions in the North Lwangua section, and that was a young male lion ready to live life as he pleased! 

Most of the male side of my father's lineage back in Bulgaria consisted of "sport hunters": they hunted just for the heck of it. My great-grandfather hunted brown bears and roe deer, and right after his service in WWI, and literally exterminated most of the local brown bear population in North-west Bulgaria (there were still plenty in Northeast, father told me about 840 in 1931). My grandfather hunted roe deer and went into Ukraine to hunt wolves (larger ones too!), and literally won four hunting competitions in the Soviet Hunting Commission Academy, where trophies are given according to the amount/type of animals hunted. 

My grandfather on my African side also hunted quite a few black wildebeest, and had the chance to hunt a Giant Sable Antelope, the rarest species of antelope in the planet (only found in central Angola). Here is a picture of one:

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On the other hand, when my father came to the US, he initially thought about hunting Kodiak bears and moose in Alaska, but he gave it a second thought and decided not to. Reason was the lack of money to buy equipment as well as a lack of time for that because of taking care of younger me. He never got the chance to hunt for sport, fortunately, and that's a nice outcome for both his sake and mine. Now, here I am against any form of sport hunting, and only for "necessity hunting" (for food or survival). To add to that, I've never thought of hunting for sport, not even once in my life.

Regarding lions in this region, they are a rarity for sure. Any attempts to for these "sport hunters" to go to this region must be denied because of the aforementioned reason. No need to "lower the population of deer" for a population that only has 5-50 deer. Reply