Lions of Southeast Africa (including Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Zambia)

[T_Ferguson]

(05-12-2023, 10:59 PM)Mwk85 Wrote:

(05-12-2023, 08:58 PM)afortich Wrote:

(05-12-2023, 05:34 PM)T_Ferguson Wrote: There are reports coming in that Loonkito may have been speared.  That will anger me a great deal if true.  There are news reports I am trying to track down that talk about the oldest lion in Amboseli being speared.

https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/kaj...rk-4231892

If this is true, it is unacceptable and frustrating.

Unfortunately it does appear to be true as this is just one of the four different posts I've seen in regards to his death. Zeno Safaris and a couple of people on the ground in Kenya have all stated the same thing and even at least one news outlet in Kenya has covered it as well. For me, it would be hard to believe that all of them would be incorrect. Damn right shame that a wild animal managed to live that long just to end up dying by the hands of man.

I think what angers me.... I mean... I get it, if I were a farmer, and something was eating my livelihood, yeah, I likely would be driven to that as well.  But the claims are that he jumped a fence.  There are reports from rangers in the area that they were expecting him to die soon anyway because he could barely walk.  Also the one report where the reports of the herders saying kill them all... It's sad.  I just don't know what to do about it.  We've taken away all their land.  The answers are above my ability to resolve or think about honestly. Reply