BAN TROPHY HUNTING - STOP THE CRUELTY
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANNED
HUNTING
CONTACT US Chris or Bev
- Campaign Against Canned Hunting
P.O. Box 356,
Wilderness, 6560 - South Africa - Telephone: 044
8771495
BAN
TROPHY HUNTING - STOP THE CRUELTY
www.cannedlion.co.za/
BY
CHRIS MERCER
This book represents
five years work and research by Chris Mercer into canned trophy
hunting and the broader issues that surround it. This book is aimed
at convincing the South African Government that trophy hunting is a
national liability, not an asset, and argues that hunting has
already corrupted the South African nature conservation authorities
beyond redemption.
After dealing
specifically with the new 2005 Policy for the management of large
predators which government is attempting to foist upon the people
of South Africa whether they like it or not, the main submissions
discuss the wider implications involving civil rights in a
democracy and trophy hunting. Next come the submissions of other
members of the animal welfare community, followed by the draft
sanctuaries policy which has been submitted to government by the
authors in the hopes that government will recognise wildlife
santuaries and adopt the ethics framed in the draft
policy.
Finally the paper
presented by the League Against Cruel Sports to the British
Minister of the Environment recently is included in order to
educate readers about the attitude of some of the powerful animal
rights organisations to the issue of trophy
hunting.
For easy access to the
various chapters in the book go to www.cannedlion.co.za/
and click on
the title in shown index
CANNED PREDATOR HUNTING
INDEX
About the Authors
Executive
Summary
Acknowledgments and Roll
of Dishonour
Useful Addresses
Critique of 2005
Policy
Con in
Conservation
Main
Submissions
Rita Miljo's
statement
Michele
Pickover
Enkosini
Vervet Monkey
Foundation
Beauty Without
Cruelty
Drakenstein
Litigation vs
Government: Letter of Demand
Litigation vs
Government: Letter of Deferment
Kuruman Canned Rhino
Hunt
Proposed
Sanctuary Policy
Shumba's
story
Ethical
Illiteracy
Hunting and the
IUCN
WWF
Scaremongers
2005 Draft Policy and
Regulations
2005 Draft
Regulations
Addendum The Myth of
Trophy Hunting as Conservation, by LACS
Schedule of Lion
Policies on Canned Hunting.
(available separately by
email from kraptor@mweb.co.za)
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1992 Transvaal Policy
2002
Limpopo Province Policy
Point
by point critique of that policy
2002
Adopted Policy
CONTACT
US
Chris
or Bev - Campaign Against Canned Hunting
P.O.
Box 356 - Wilderness, 6560 - South Africa - Telephone: 044
8771495
INTRODUCING
CHRIS MERCER
A
trained lawyer, qualified in both English and Roman-Dutch law,
Chris practised law in Zimbabwe until political events there
brought him to South Africa.
He and
his partner Beverley Pervan co-authored the book “For the Love of
Wildlife” and recently published a book called “Canned Lion Hunting
- A National Disgrace.”
But he
and Bev are best known for their long-running struggle, against
bitter official opposition, to establish the Kalahari Raptor and
Predator Sanctuary. Few people know that wildlife sanctuaries are
prohibited in South Africa, and that rehab centres are obliged
currently to slaughter any un-releasable animals. After seven years
of Court battles, the Kalahari Raptor Centre’s charitable work has
finally been accepted by conservation officials. Chris and Bev have
been forced to retire for health reasons from hands-on work with
orphaned and injured wildlife, but the Centre which they founded
continues to rescue birds and animals in the
Kalahari.
They
are now employing their unique knowledge and experience to campaign
for more public participation in wildlife management, more humane
policies, and to get animal welfare considerations placed on the
conservation agenda in South Africa.
Re:
Canned Lion Hunting Tour Of UK
Chris
Mercer will be touring UK in March, giving presentations about
canned lion hunting in South Africa. He will be talking to business
groups, schools, universities etc. The tour will consist of 20 or
so venues throughout UK over a period of four weeks. At each venue,
there will be a half hour presentation of slides and video. This
will be followed by an hour or so of questions, and then a book
signing session.
The
public meetings presently arranged are:
Venue
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Address
Monday
6th March 6.00pm - - - - Conway Hall, Central
London.
Sussex
Horse Rescue Trust - - - - Uckfield, Sussex. Tuesday 14th
March
Bradford
Central Library - - - - - - Saturday 25th March West
Yorks
Edinburgh
and Glasgow - - - - - - TBA (contact Adv for Animals in
Scotland)
It is
hoped that you will publicise these venues to your members and
colleagues in the animal rights and welfare community. You are also
welcome to participate in the tour of UK,, should you wish to
organise your own venue in your chosen area at a suitable date and
place.
The
sickening details of how the hunting industry conducts business in
South Africa are all on the website www.cannedlion.co.za
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With
the approval of the S.A. government, lions are now bred in cages
for slaughter by hunters, often using dogs and bow-and-arrow, and
there are now at least 3,500 lions caught up in this
institutionalized cruelty.
The
book "For the Love of Wildlife", which was recently reviewed in BBC
Wildlife magazine, is available from Vine House Book Distributors,
Chailey, Sussex email: sales@vinehouseuk.co.uk
and
will be available for purchase at all venues.
Contact:
Chris
Mercer.
PO Box
356
Wilderness
6560
South
Africa.
www.cannedlion.co.za/
Email
address. chrisandbev@mweb.co.za
Tel:
South Africa 27 044 877 1495.