The biggrst case of rhino horn poaching thrown out of court

The foot of Table Mountain is where evolution and involution meet.

It is difficult to find the true average level of consciousness or intelligence of people in today’s world. Some developed areas are amazingly closed to new ideas whereas some undeveloped areas show an amazing sense of spiritualism and intelligence. Humanity evolved since the Alice Bailey books were written, yet here in Africa many of the unthinking hoards, referred to as: ‘The people’ have not yet evolved past the stage of stoning their victims. Blood sacrifice (animal and human) is still the norm among some tribes, and there are still cases where witches are burnt or human and animal body parts are used for magic.

Here, in the ‘third world’ we still find the animal-man who is a descendant from a group of people who live a day-to-day life and keep no possessions and gather only what they need for the day. They live on the city streets, the urban bush, and their lifestyles seem to have changed little from centuries ago. Yet life robbed them from the freedom of nature. Life robbed them also from that relationship with the wild, the bush, and the rapport they had with animals. It robbed them of the magic of existence and replaced it with a fight for survival in the squalor of city streets.

Their dangers are no longer that of wild animals but sharp or poisonous objects found it garbage cans. The need to hunt for food has been replaced by a desire to obtain alcohol so they can forget the reality of life.

When baboons evolved to the same level, and navigated the uncertain ground of backyards with garbage cans, they were shot because humans need that the demarcation between animal and man remains in tact.

Here at the foot of Table Mountain is where the line of devolution and evolution meets.

It is here where an ugly reality of neglect, animal cruelty and misunderstanding plays out.

Sad World Cup News

A newspaper front page news article, glorifying someone who made a vuvuzela from a kudu horn highlights the latest killing of a rhino at the Kruger National Park.
Even if the rhino horn was not going to be used as vuvuzela, the poaching of animals for their parts is still sad.
Africans are sick and they regard money as more important than the few animals left in the wild.    It seems that they will only stop when the last animal is dead.

If you feel the need to shoot; do it with a camera.

• While browsing through the magazine shelves at our local magazine retailer, I stumbled upon “The African Hunter” magazine. While looking through the glossy pages about hunting in South Africa, I noticed that the authors and publishers are from Zimbabwe. Anthony Williams and Dr. Don Heath. What a cheek. Zimbabwe lost 90% of its wildlife during the Mugabe starvation rule, now they are cashing in on our South African natural heritage.

This magazine is being widely displayed on the South African magazine racks.

A quick web search revealed that there are a number of hunting magazines and organizations that are only benefiting foreigners or are only sold overseas.

It appears that our heritage is still being stripped by foreigners for trophies, sport or foreign gain. Who are the losers? The African people!

The argument that game hunting provides needed jobs is not true. Wildlife Safari tourism can provide even more jobs. If a game farmer claims he can not survive without offering hunting for sport, his farm should be taken from him and given to someone who can turn it into a game farm.
No animal should be culled for sport.

Other overseas magazines are found under titles like include

• Sports Afield Hunting Magazine (California)

Feature articles cover hunting for species such as trophy deer, bear, bighorn sheep, elk, caribou, Cape buffalo, lion, and leopard.


Other Internet titles include:

• Hunt South Africa

• Hunting South Africa Eastern Cape plains game

• Trophy Hunting in Africa Come & Hunt for Deers, Antelopes, Lions, Buffalo's, Elephants & More

• Game Hunting Safaris Big five and Plains game hunting. Trophy hunting South Africa

What makes a person love killing beautiful rare defenseless animals? Could it be that they are murderers who do not find an outlet for their passion in real life?
Some of them may even call themselves Christians and go to church on Sundays.

Killing rabbits without conscience

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

10,000 Rabbits are being killed on Robben Island because they destroy the local indigenous vegetation. They have no predators are growing at a rate that can no longer be supported by the small island.

If these rabbits are disease free, why kill something that can be farmed for food in a continent where so many people are dying from hunger?

Why kill rabbits during the breeding season?

Killing a female, who has a litter of young in a barrow, will cause the sucklings to die from starvation, Just like so many people in Africa do. Do we need any more cruelty and suffering on this continent?

I would suggest that the rabbits on Robben Island be caught and placed in a breeding sanctuary to become food for starving African people and wild animals in captivity.

Rabbits should be caught during low breeding times and each rabbit should be examined to determine if she is suckling young before being removed.

It has came to my attention that when the Tars, from Table Mountain, were killed a drug that paralyses the muscles, but not necessary the consciousness were being used. The poor Tars were consciously dying of suffocation.

Humanity needs to cultivate a global consciousness.

We need to find global solutions to local problems. We can no longer afford to create waste and glut in one area and poverty and starvation in another. We should all be global role players and put our differences aside and help one another to farm this globe.

Global humanitarian organizations should support projects that can provide long-term solutions rather than feed people for a day at a time.

Further Reading

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• The Cape Argus
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• Encyclopedia

Lion killers plead to the South African government

Lion hunters in Africa should change their guns for cameras. Rather put a beautiful photograph of a lion shot, in the wild, by camera on your wall than the stuffed head of one that was bread in captivity and lived in over crowded conditions all it's life.

It is a pity that government decisions crumble under psychological attack.

Rich tourists want to come and kill our lions for a hunting experience and now South African game farmers are putting pressure on the government to allow them to do so.

The government wants lions to have a life of two years in freedom in the wild before allowing them to be killed. Some heartless game farmers want to breed lions and rear lions in captivity, in mostly overcrowded and cruel conditions for one reason only, and that is to be shot by tourists who like killing animals for sport.

The type of tourist who wants to visit South Africa to kill our lions, the symbol for Africa, is the type that we can do without. They are rich individuals who have their greedy eyes on destroying our heritage. Animals have rights too, and we need to protect them, not exploit the few who are left.

Job losses' are always an emotional argument. It is used every time someone wants to destroy or exploit our natural heritage for profit.

Before any farmer comes to the table to argument their case for lion hunting, they should bring their taxation documents to prove how much South Africa benefits from the killing of lions. And also have their BEE status in order.

If they feel that they do not have enough money to change their concerns to that of one where tourists can come and view the African big five, then perhaps they can approach some of our BEE partners to help them financially. There must be BEE millionaires out there who would like to partner a concern who want to preserve our wildlife. I am sure running a game farm where education and service is the main element, is just as much job friendly.

People who kill animals for pleasure deserve to go bankrupt. They are scum.

Overseas visitors who visit game farms should insist that the farms they visit does not partake in canned lion hunting.

Almost all ZIMBABWE'S wildlife was slaughtered since 2001

ELEANOR MOMBERG from The Weekend Argus, 15 Argus 2007, reported that


Almost all ZIMBABWE'S wildlife was slaughtered since 2001

ZIMBABWE'S wildlife, once a major tourist attraction, has been almost totally decimated since the start of the government-sanctioned land invasions seven years ago.

In its latest game count, the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force has found that more than 90% of animals on private game ranches and between 35% and 100% of wildlife in conservancies have been killed since 2001.

Every year, game farms compare wildlife populations prior to, and during the land invasions, list the latest known populations, the number of snares recovered and 'the length of fencing stolen, mostly to make snares.

It has become more and more difficult to collate statistics because many farmers have left the country Of the 62 farms studied, 59 reported wildlife losses totalling 42 236

This included 75 black rhino, 9 562 impala, 4 969 kudu, 39 leopard, 31 lion, 567 Sable antelope, 18 cheetah, nine elephant, 466 giraffe, 6 762 warthog, 1959 wildebeest and more than 7 600 other unspecified species.

Bushmen arrested for wildlife killings

Sunday Argus - 8-7-2007
Bushmen arrested for wildlife killings

POLICE in Botswana said yesterday they had arrested 21 San Bushmen for hunting and killing several indangered animal species inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
They hunted and killed the animals on donkeys and horses, using using bows and arrows
Read the report ===============
Just fining indigenous people may not be the answer to the problem. Indigenous people need to be educated. They need to understand why it is no longer allowed to kill more than they need to eat and they need to know what to hunt. They also need to be protected against exploitation by poachers.
Because of the dwindling wildlife, these people can be used as protectors of game like game or indigenous rangers. Perhaps they can be taught game farming where they can continue with their indigenous lifestyle, but without depleting the wildlife reserve. The minute these people use modern conveniences and guns, they can no longer classed as indigenous. When that happens they may as well be dealt with according to law.

Why do we murder animals

Animals, today, seldom live until their bodies expire from old age.

We kill animals for food.
We kill animals for sport.
We kill animals for their skins and teeth (leather, fur and ivory)
We kill animals for experimentation
We kill animals for medication.
We kill animals out of neglect.
We kill our pets because they no longer fit into our lifestyles.
Elderly people are forced to have their animals killed because they enter retirement homes.
We kill animals because there are no facilities for them when we go on holiday.
We kill animals because we cannot afford their medical bills.
We kill animals because we do not care.
We kill animals because they become a nuisance when they grow old.


While humans have no respect for fellow humans animals will suffer.

While there is poverty in the world animals will suffer.

While money is seen as the most important element in the world, all living beings will suffer.