British company Blackthorn Safaris is charging heartless trophy hunters thousands of pounds to murder captive-bred lions like sitting ducks during “canned hunting” shoots on an estate in Kimberley, South Africa.
Alex Goss, who owns the Shropshire-based firm, posted several sickening photographs on the company’s website, picturing him with the innocent animals he and his guests have cruelly slaughtered. It is believed that the lions in the photographs were specifically bred in captivity to be mercilessly hunted down within fenced estates, leaving them with no chance of escape.
Throughout South Africa there are approximately 10,000 lions in more than 300 breeding and captive hunting centers.
Calling canned hunting “cowardly”, Eduardo Goncalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, which exposed Blackthorn Safaris’s gruesome practices, explained how lion cubs are taken from their moms just hours after birth, then raised in captivity to be killed for “entertainment”.
“In the shocking world of trophy hunting, there is nothing more depraved than captive lion hunting,” he said. “For a British company apparently to be actively organizing captive lion hunts will make people sick to the stomach. The Government should ban the import of hunting trophies, help close the loophole in international law which lets hunters shoot endangered animals for “sport” and support moves to abolish all trophy hunting”.
“Lions are in serious danger of going extinct,” added Goncalves. “In the 1950s, there were up to 450,000 lions in the wild. Today there are just 20,000. Lions have disappeared from 90% of their range and gone extinct in 26 countries.”
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Let’s kill them for entertainment!
A family-friendly comment is at the sight of this family not possible. Photo three and four.
Despicable family
How sad these scumbags must be to shoot animals for fun, what message does this give to their children
All vile scum who do this makes me loathe them
Aussi stupides que méchants! des pauvres types!
Can’t they be shut down?
This is even more disgusting than hunting them in the wild. Bred specifically for this?!? Are you serious? What cowards!! This needs to be stopped immediately! How ignorant are you people?? These animals are already so endangered, sanctuaries are meant to help preserve the species, not make it so much more convenient & easier to kill!!!
STOP THIS HORRIFIC KILLING NOW!
Anyone who participates in canned hunting – from the selling to the killing – should be put into a very large enclosure with underbrush and low trees. In their underwear. Then release some lions or tigers in the pen.
New laws should be written not only outlawing the slaughter of endangered animals, but also making it a capital crime.
Because it’s pretty much murdering precious living things, for nothing more than ego and arrogance.
Canned lion hunting must be banned forever. This British must be charged with murder. He and the other trophy hunters should never go back to Africa in order murder innocent wild animals. What on earth did the wild animals do to people other than living their own lives? I eat meat and I support hunting for survival only. I will never support trophy hunting, NEVER.
So, it must be truly gratifying to kill a trapped animal, without challenge of the hunt, and then to disgustingly display the poor dead lion for the photo op! No sportsmanship involved! Shame! Please put an end to this “canned” hunt operation. It is a waste of beautiful creatures. Further, I do not believe in the excuses of “thinning the herd”, “in the name of conservation”, or any of the other lame statements that come from the mouths of these so-called “hunters” who don’t hunt at all, but merely want to trophy for the den wall. Please stop this activity now!
These kind of company’s will do anything for profit,and the twisted corrupted cowards that kill for pleasure these beautiful creatures who have as much right to live as the human ,maybe more since man thinks he is somehow better,why because he has money and guns,ignorance is become humanity’s curse on this planet
Please keep actively signing petitions in order to try and protect our animals
I don’t understand how that’s possible
That’s entertainment? I would find it entertaining to see the lion chase you and do to you what you want to do to it! How killing an innocent animal can be entertaining by any stretch of the imagination is beyond me. This company needs to be shut down permanently, the owners imprisoned, and heavily fined. All that have participated need to be prosecuted as well and fined as much as laws will allow. Then these heartless, sadistic people should be forbidden to have pets and children for life.
All aninal killing for sport or money must end they need to change the loophole to end this barbaric cruel sick killing of these helpless magificent animals !! Shane Shame Shame !!
This firm should be prosecuted for their evil behavior: all should get substantial prison sentences for their torture and killing of endangered animals – and this so-called hunting is cowardly. The animals are hand reared and have no chance of escape. How can they live with themselves?
Shooting a captive lion my goodness what a brave man !
What I would like to know is why are the faces blurred so they cannot be recognized. Shouldn’t their sins and shame be known of how cowardly and coldblooded that they really are. These kinds of “hunts” which really are not hunts are some of the lowest forms of depravity.
Get Blackthorne off the face of the Earth!!
Unspeakably cowardly and evil killing a confined animal!!!???
Get Blackthorne off the face of the Earth!!
Unspeakably cowardly and evil killing a confined animal!!!???
There is no place in the 21st century for such horrific so called entertainment as hunting, of any kind, particularly in cannd hunting where the already greedy inhuman monsters sell these hunts to bloodthirsty and cowardly idiots with more money than sense so that they can murder an innocent unable to defend itself trapped against a fence lion. This has to be forced to stop NOW and any businesses or countries involved in such brutality and cruelty must be boycotted.
Trophy hunting should be abolished! What type of sport is it when you are guaranteed a kill simply because these animals have been bred for this purpose & cannot escape! This is not a sport, this is murder plain & simple!! The people who run these places are a waste of space on our planet as well as the people who engage in this murder! They are nothing but cowards!
THIS IS THE WORST COWARDLY EVIL EVER. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC – DOING THIS TO ANY ANIMAL. PLEASE STOP THIS NOW.
A bunch of pussies they are. Killing majestic creatures to pretend they are real men. Hope they are mauled.
Please stop calling animal death murder. You cannot murder anything other than a human, period
Seriously?! Where did you get that idea? They have the same life force in them that humans have in them. To take that life away by force is murder, no matter what form the life force has taken in this life. Humans are animals, too, you know. The most destructive animals on the planet. Any form of “hunting” done by humans is premeditated murder. Time to reprogram your thinking. You have been erroneously educated.
Totally agree with you P. Miller. This is cold blooded murder for entertainment.
It seems as though the governments should be doing a lot of things towards helping all defenseless animals but they dont. That’s the problem. They allow this heartless cruelty to continue on and on. I dont think for one minute they dont know about these horrific crimes againt these poor animals. Its only when animal organizations such as lady freethinker get involved and we the people sign petitions, the government acts like it wants to help. BS! Who are these hunters trying to impress with their heartless, cruel, evil, no talented actions. Wow woopydoo, it really takes skill to shoot down a caged, inprisoned animal who can’t shoot back and can only try to out run bullets. You have them enclosed in an area which they can’t escape. That is truly some skill ….. you pieces of crap. Then you want to take a picture to show the world …. as if we accept that you horribly took the life of an innocent, living being who deserved to live as you think you do. I would take one of those lions over 20 of you pieces of filth anyday. I pray you hunters dont own pets. The karma you morons will be going through from your actions towards the animals you innocently and continuously kill is the only worthwhile thing that will bring a smile on my face because you will go through it and when you do, remember its the reward or trophy i might say for your actions against all animals. What will you do next when there are no more innocent lions to kill ….. I hope move on to each other ….. EVIL IMBACILES!
You can call it what you want — but this is FOR SURE — humans KILL — snuff out the life of — animals — would that make you happier? — MURDER == the intent to kill; premeditated act == aforethought — to kill ///// the fact you believe animals and humans are not of equal standing; animals being classified as LESS THAN HUMAN, is another issue — but the FACT remains that people who KILL animals, usually have the intention of killing them (unless it was an accident, of course, which would yet again lead us to another, different topic) — VERDICT: humans can and do murder not only other humans, but also animals.
Never trust somebody who calls her/himself “eminem”. They will be bigoted, and always try to start an fight.
the evil people that put on these canned hunts should use themselves for sport instead of animals.
Cruel ! Ban hunting lions and all other wildlife.
BIG HARD MAN THEN! SHOULD DO THE SAME WITH HIM & HIS KIND!
SHUT DOWN TROPHY HUNTING ASAP!!! THE EVIL BASTARDS DESERVE PRISON,,, THEY ARE MURDERS !!! PERIOD…..
There is no place in this modern world for canned hunting of any kind, but in this case particularly lions. Any hunter posing with his trophy animal, is a coward and cheat, generally a disgusting human being. Lions need to be protected and not hunted. There must be a stop to canned hunting.
Ego at the expense of lion’s lives…..no words! Honor all of these animal’s lives ….have appreciation for LIFE of others on this planet. I am ashamed at this type of behavior by humans.
Blackthorn should be shut down! Or let’s release the men in a canned hunting sport and hunt them down. The cowardly trash.
Shooting captive lions for sport… very sporting of you, you pathetic narcissists. This should go viral so Blackthorn is not patronized, and they should be watched so the next company name they open under can be exposed also. More importantly, laws should be passed in all countries banning trophy hunting, or trophy import.
The practice of trophy hunting these rare animals is the same as paying money to eventually destroy themselves, and planet Earth. We keep burning the beds we are sleeping in, for profit. It’s not going to turn out well for humanity (or the inhumane people who are engaging in this practice)