From: avaaz@avaaz.org
Date: 13.02.2019 19:33:06
Subject: Zevk için zürafa öldürüyor
Tess bu zürafayı sırf zevk için öldürdü.
Sevgili arkadaşlar,
Tess bu zürafayı sırf zevk için öldürdü.
Tüm internette yayılan bu dehşet veren fotoğrafta hayvanın cansız bedeninin arkasına geçmiş sırıtıyor — ama şimdi bu trajediyi, dünyanın tüm zürafaları için cankurtarana dönüştürecek kıymetli bir fırsat var!
Çok kısa bir süre sonra, tüm dünya ülkeleri çok önemli bir vahşi yaşam zirvesi için biraraya gelecekler. Ve tarihte ilk kez, beş Afrika ülkesi zürafaların koruma altındaki türler listesine eklenmesini öneriyor. Zürafaları kurtarmak için küresel eylem planının ilk adımı olacak bu girişim tüm gidişatı değiştirebilir. Ayrıca, zürafa nüfusunun şimdiden %40 azaldığı düşünüldüğünde, bunun acilen yapılması gereği de ortada.
Hemen şimdi tek tıkla imzala ve her yerden paylaş ki, bu güzel hayvanın anlamsızca öldürülmesini dünyanın tüm zürafaları için bir dönüm noktasına dönüştürelim!
Buraya tıkla ve zürafalara hak ettikleri korumayı sağlayalım!
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Kentucky Woman Defends Killing “Vulnerable” Black Giraffe,
Says Safari Hunting Trip Is “Game Management”
“I get that hunting is not for everyone,
what makes this world great is the differences.”
by SHANNON BARBOUR
JUL 5, 2018
TWITTER AFRICA DIGEST
In June 2017, a Kentucky woman named Tess Thompson Talley went on her “dream hunt” on a safari in South Africa, during which she killed a black giraffe. After doing so, Talley happily posed for graphic “trophy kill” photos, which she shared on her Facebook page.
“Prayers for my once in a lifetime dream hunt came true today! Spotted this rare black giraffe bull and stalked him for quite awhile. I knew it was the one. He was over 18 years old, 4,000 lbs and was blessed to be able to get 2,000 lbs of meat from him.”
The photos were were recently recirculated on Twitter by an African website called AfricLand Post:
In a tweet, AfricLand noted the animal she killed is a black giraffe (an aging male giraffe whose spots have turned black). Across social media, the photos have been met with massive outcry from the public. When the post went viral, celebrities like Debra Messing and Ricky Gervais chimed in and called her spoiled and selfish. “You reek of privilege and ignorance,” Messing said on Instagram. “Shame on you.”
Following the controversy, Talley removed the photos and made most of her public-facing social media pages private. She also gave a brief statement to the TODAY Show: “This is called conservation through game management.” she said.
She also refuted AfricaLand Post’s claim that the giraffe was a “rare” species. “The giraffe I hunted was the South African sub-species of giraffe,” she wrote in an email to Fox News. “The numbers of this sub-species is actually increasing due, in part, to hunters and conservation efforts paid for in large part by big game hunting. The breed is not rare in any way other than it was very old. Giraffes get darker with age.” The species of giraffe is listed as vulnerable on the Red List of Threatened Species, however, because the population has declined almost 40 percent in the past three generations.
According to Paul Babaz, the president of hunters’ rights organization Safari Club International, hunts like Talley’s do supposedly help conservation efforts. “The money she paid to go on this hunt, it is going directly into the local community, it’s going to benefit those animals because now there’s an economic benefit,” Babaz said. (It’s worth noting, though, that Babaz is not going to an impartial expert here given his affiliation— and that the economic boost hunter tourism offers is of no “benefit” to “those animals” who, you know, are killed on safari hunting trips. Because they’re dead.)
