Whale giving birth in False Bay attracted sharks. Dolphins appeared out of nowhere and swam in circles around her keeping sharks away. They stayed with her until she & her baby were safe then escorted her to safety.
Video credit David Hersch
He was called Ghost, a magnificent leopard in his prime..shot by trophy hunters waiting for him to approach the bait they set out. A pity Ghost didn't get the smell of the cowardness of those hiding to shoot him.
Please share far and wide, how in the world is this possible in this day and age, or in ANY DAY and AGE, this is barbaric, a terrified
#fox
dragged from her den thrown to a waiting pack of dogs... crying
One of the most distressing sequences – supplied to
@Channel4News
by the HSA – shows a terrierman dragging a terrified fox from her refuge and throwing her to the feet of the pack. This man – and the red-coated huntsman who is instructing him – remain at large.
Photo of a lion caged, used to breed animals for the hunting and tiger bone industry. All I can say is that someone must be a really special kind of monster to think it’s ok to pay to kill an animal for fun.
What kind of person spends a small fortune equivalent to poor African family's lifetime income to fly rights across the world to track down this magnificent elephant bull - and then kill it, so no-one else gets to see it again?
It is an act of the utmost selfish entitlement.
For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of living beings, he will never know health or peace.For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras, c.570BC – c.495BC
Dik Diks are tiny and so beautiful, sadly very sought after by trophy hunters for a place in the Safari Club International Record Book
A nose shaped like a heart, huge eyes, long eyelashes, and a petite nose. The tiny dik-dik is as pretty as antelopes come.
This leopard was hunted in Namibia with 8 hounds, 6 "humans" and a high powered telescopic riffle. Then these trophy hunters have the audacity to call it a "sport"... of cowards. The leopard stood no chance
Leopard hunt escalates
Increasing number of hunting guides arrested in connection with leopard hunting
In Namibia, leopards are increasingly being hunted in an unacceptable manner.
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Trophy hunting that kills hundreds of Colorado mountain lions every year should be banned.
It's mountain lions who help maintain healthy balance of natural ecosystems. They remove the weak and sick animals they hunt.
Bulls as Craig over 40 years old with giant tusks were once not uncommon. Selective killing of large males by trophy hunters and poachers have made Craig a world treasure. It is impossible to be in his presence without feeling a sense of awe and wonder at their magnificence.
One of the ugliest photos I have ever seen
The hunting operator's wife is showing off her diamond ring, expensive watch and manicured hands on the worn soles of a poor dead
#elephants
. This photo shows everything that is wrong on
#conservation
#TrophyHunting
This video is going viral as being of a dancing elephant.
This is not "Elephant Dance"! This is an extremely stressed elephant, stressed of being tied up and many other physical and psychological reasons. Wake up and understand elephants body language!
#captiveelephants
3,278 lions shot in 10 years and still trophy hunters claim that TH is good for the conservation of wild lions? And their supporters are still rummaging about with the help of their financial benefactors to oppose hunting ban bills?
#NoToTrophyuk
#BackTheBill
Six adult elephants were poisoned, killed, and tusks removed last week at watering hole at Gwayi, Shangani wildlife conservancy, which is close to Hwange National Park by suspected poachers who allegedly used a deadly chemical.
A namibian outfitter Estreaux Safaris selling cheetah hunts in Namibia.
Here 2 cheetahs killed, the sad thing is that cheetahs are very social beings, I wouldn't be surprized if the second cheetah was killed when coming to the rescue of his friend
Surreal, while the cheetah numbers are falling every day, this fragile species is up for hunting at DISCOUNT prices. Why in the world is this still allowed?
Only one in 8 male
#lions
makes it into adulthood. Sadly, these lions, for all their hardships, are sought after by trophy hunters. Every now and then, a cub emerges as a battle-scared warrior, and then gets shot for the very qualities that have allowed him to be a survivor.
I will never understand how anyone who knows suffering is able to cause suffering and take the life of another being for NO REASON AT ALL
#BANTROPHYHUNTING
The disturbing faces of wolf management in Montana.
Imagine how these 4 family members lured in with bait and scents, suffered, 3 wolves in leghold traps, 1 wolf in a snare, legally for 48 hours before watching the trapper kill each and every one of them.
#relistrockymtnwolves
Yes, yes, yes, I am a proud Belgian!!! This makes me soooo happy, onward and forward for communities and wildlife.
Belgium is set to ban the importation of hunting trophies from certain endangered species, including African lions and elephants.
Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?
What kind of person looks upon world's largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead,lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying “Wow!” says something like “Where's my gun?
The insanity of it all
A baby deer cuddles up next to a deer target, used by hunters to practice shooting them. Animal innocence right next to human brutality.
So many stories in their eyes
Elephants intertwine their trunks around each other in a display of affection, forging a bond that conveys volumes without uttering a single word.
In the language of love, their trunks narrate stories of connection, comfort and togetherness.
Wildlife Win: Yesterday,
@COParksWildlife
experts released five gray
#wolves
— three males and two females — onto public land in Grand County in a historic effort to create a permanent, self-sustaining gray wolf population in Colorado.
Learn more 👉
So very sad but least he was given the dignity to live his life until the end
Loonkito (2004 - 2023) has passed away, possibly the oldest male lion in Africa. He was truly a king
#lion
#Kenya
Photo credit Lion Guardians
Ecoside
Who killed the heaviest lynx? At the West Texas Big Bobcat Contest, the highest-paying
#predator
#hunting
competition in the USA, participants line up to have their trophies weighed.
These killing contests need to end
They have such a hard fight to survive, it is a sin to cut their lives short for no reason at all
#BanTrophyHunting
A lioness entirely covered in mud after an exhausting battle with a buffalo that lasted for more than one hour in the swamp of the Musiara Marsh.
I can't watch it but how in the world can you honour the memory of your child by killing an innocent being that has caused no harm to anyone. How,how... how???
WTF 🤬🤬
Trophy hunter Susan Moulton travelled to Botswana for an 'epic' Elephant hunt to honour the memory of her son.
I bet she is also a God loving and family loving person as well.
@RickyGervais
"Narcissists have an inflated sense of self and crave positive attention. To maintain this inflated level of self-esteem they must engage in strategies to maintain and develop their self-image, like posing with a lion they’ve just killed.
About trophy hunting...'I find it repulsive, but, but, but, habitat, money' .. whatever
The manoeuvre to install morality as no more than a 2nd order concern bespeaks indifference, failure of imagination and moral vacuity.
#BanTrophyHunting
Please sign and share for Craig and the Kenyan super tuskers. 4 more hunting permits for these wonders of nature have been issued.
Kenyans wildlife doesn't belong to Tanzanian outfitters waiting across the border to make money on them
I will never apologize for wanting hunting big cats with hounds to be banned, it is grotesque and cruel, not only for the big cats but also for the hounds that are collateral damage for men's greed... Please retweet if you agree
Read and weep...
Game hunting is one thing but hunting of endangered, threatened &vulnerable species needs to be phased out!! Those that have the money will come to Africa to get last beautiful big specimen available and will go to all lenghts to get it
This New Hampshire trapper shows off her dead raccoons. The complete lack of respect for other living beings and their right to existence is very clear in this picture. This trapper is so proud of her killing!
#NHCART
#BanTrapping
#Raccoon
#ProtectNHWildlife
It is extremely sad but this poor gorgeous boy has been trophy hunted.
Mwezi”( xpl 107 ), one of the LAST REMAINING NAMIBIAN DESERT MALES ,
Trophy Hunted in Namibia
WOW! 🐅 New
#rescue
, Cherry is out exploring in the sun for the first time in her life. Heartwarming to see this 20+ year old
#tiger
dig with paws that have never touched anything but cement. Your support made this happen. Keep sharing to help more 🌟
Did you know the state of Maine still allows bear trapping via cable restraints? The New Hampshire Trappers Association raffled off a trip to trap a bear in Maine. It's beyond understanding why this cruelty is still allowed anywhere.
#BlackBear
#BanTrapping
For most communities, trophy hunting is a lose-lose situation. They lose their wildlife to the rifle of foreign hunters, and fail to profit from the money produced by this deadly business.
Most of the time people describe a magnificent wildlife photo to have that clean and innocent look with the animal standing tall, its head held high oozing in magnificence. But what exactly is magnificence in the wild?
It really is a very scary weird sub-culture. "let's put on some non-smearing mascara and pose with a beautiful animal that I paid someone to help me kill."
#BanTrophyHunting
Please
@rickygervais
@PeterEgan6
@domdyer70
@ChrisGPackham
help with this petition, a plea from Kenyan conservationists.Trophy hunters are herding last remaining Kenyan supertuskers into Tanzanian hunting blocks to be shot. Only 50 supertuskers left
#Trophy
hunting perpetuates the unequal balance of power and disrespect from white neo-colonial Westerners who profit of Africa, while the local people see very little economic revenue.
#Neocolonialism
#GetTheBanDone
This is such a nauseating photo, not from the colonial days but a recent photo. How can those hunters not see how wrong this is and how demeaning and insulting this is. Neocolonialism is alive and well. Seriously this needs be banned NOW!
Hunting, trading, sending them to unsuitable destinations...does Namibia really care about their
#Cheetahs
? They are in dire neef of the highest protection
🚨Terrible news out of Tanzania🚨
A 3rd Amboseli elephant bull Tusker was hunted and killed on the 1st of March 2024 in Enduimet by Kilombero North Safaris and client Rick Warren. This needs to be stopped and the agreement on no cross border hunting needs to be reestablished…
Imagine..for years these elephants have felt safe and sound on Kenyan soil!
Imagine when the damned bullets of these bastards reach their majestic bodies.
Imagine the vile act of cowardice and betrayal!
My blood boils!
So incredibly sad, the remains of the once so majestic Kenyan tusker Gilgil, killed for greed and profit by trophy hunters in Tanzania
Source Africa Geographica
Trappers want us to believe it is all about population control and conservation. Read the comments trappers put with this picture of a tortured
#raccoon
and it is clear it just about the thrill of hurting animals. Trapping should be banned.
#BanTrapping
Outrage as 100 lions shot dead by British trophy hunters since 2015 - and it could even more
Figures released by the Government show 80% of the lions shot by Britons were bred to be killed in enclosed fields in what is known as ‘"canned hunting"
So incredibly beautiful to see. Summer, newborn daughter of Annabel orphan raised at Wild is Life Trust and Zen surrounded by her loving wild family. Conservation in action
Brutal killing of
#elephant
highlights need to end trophy hunting
"The injured elephant kept fighting for his life, heading toward an adjacent ecotourism reserve, where trophy hunting is prohibited. But the hunting party followed the elephant on foot,
This years Elephant Trophy Hunting Season is in full swing in Botswana with reports of many elephants being shot already.
This guy is taking 5 tuskers in only 14 days, how can this be justified, how can this be conservation?
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A whole family was killed. It is said that it was hunters who exterminated this
#gorilla
family and proudly showed themselves with their trophy. Great apes have become a commodity!Now is the time to ban
#wildlife
trade
@TrophyXpose
@BAT_S_A
This is unbearingly sad. Given was killed while protecting
#rhino
#ranger
#Malawi
I curse
#poachers
. I curse the rhino horn trade
Given, may you rest forever in heavenly peace, you died a hero
Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick and all these pro hunting scientists are running behind and defending hunters that do this???
This is why trophy hunting needs to end
Have a look at this taxidermied baboon killed in Africa. Displayed for a hunting convention in USA.
WARNING, a hard watch. This is a lion baited to be hunted. Unlike what pro-hunting scientists claim, hunting is not evidence-based science but sheer greed. This lion was part of a coalition and he had a pride to defend. By killing this lion, they killed the entire pride.
I love this
The 17 young Maasai women who make up Team Lioness were hand-picked by community leaders and IFAW based on their leadership skills, academic achievements, and integrity — they’re basically the Avengers of wildlife protection.
UK Government conducted public consultation on TH, no less than 44,000 orgs,experts and individuals, including reps of African communities took part in it. Of those, 86% agreed measures to end imports of trophies should be introduced.
Parliament has to listen. get the ban!
Look at him smiling, pretending to be a first-class shot , in reality he is a miserable wannabe, causing immense suffering to a poor kudu whose tragedy was that he was the most beautiful and strongest of all
#BanTrophy
Via Dr. Pieter Kat
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Merry Christmas to all my twitter friends
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