Lions are magnificent creatures. Unfortunately, they greatly suffer at the hands of human beings. From roadside zoos; to poachers; to trophy hunters, like the dentist who killed Cecil, there an abundance of stories about how humans have mistreated big cats. One of the lesser-known cruelties that lions are subjected to is the lion bone trade. […]
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Trophy hunters paying £30,000 to hunt leopards with packs of baying dogs then posing for pics with slain animals
TROPHY hunters are paying tens of thousands of pounds to hunt leopards with packs of baying dogs. Safari firms are using the hounds to increase the chances of wealthy shooters taking down the secretive big cats. One brags that the dogs give hunters around a 90 per cent “success rate” of bagging a kill. The […]