Ron Thompson from Zimbabwe, was this week mentioned in a press release on the website bantrophyhunting.org as a highly effective big game hunter with, who have been behind the slaughter of more than 5000 elephants.
The high number confirms the 80-year-old hunter even on his website, where he also proclaims to have shot and killed 40 leopards, up to 60 lions, 800 buffalo, 50 hippos, and ‘many more’.
Community – 13. feb. 2019 – at. 14:28 Hunter hated: Pay 725.000 to kill the rare goat
In the press release describing the website Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, the elephant population has fallen sharply from 1.3 million in the 1980s to about 400,000 today.
It is a lie that the african elephant is dying, believes the hunter from Zimbabwe. Photo: Mik Eskestad
It writes The Independent, which, in connection with the fact that his name is mentioned in the press release, has talked with storvildtsjægeren Ron Thompson.
Opposite them, he refuses to call himself the trofæjæger, but explains that his job is to reduce the stocks.
– I’ve done enough in my life to satisfy any blood lust, people think I have. It wasn’t bloodlust – it was my job, ” says Ron Thompson to the british media.
He also says that he no longer goes regularly on the hunt, but could easily find it if he were invited to it.
I had no emotion in it. I regret absolutely nothing, he says.
Ron Thompson believes not, that the problem is the hunt. The problem is, according to him, ‘a pile of so-called experts from the West who tell us what we need to do’.
Bloody elefantbillede from the Lower Zambezi National Park.
– I am a trained environmentalist – I know a lot about it here, he says.
-I wish that I could take you by the shoulders and shake you, and say ‘don’t believe everything you hear’, he says on to The Independent.
According to him, the african lion is far from extinct. This, he believes, is something dyrerettighedsforkæmpende NGOS lie about in order to beg for money.
– When you have a healthy stock, you need to make sure that it does not become too large, he explains.
According to the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting was 1.7 million game trophies sold between 2004 and 2014. 200 000 of them were according to the of their information from endangered species.
Trophy hunting is a cruel heinous remnant from the colonial era. The recent surge in the hunting of elephants shows that the industry is out of control, says Eduardo Goncalves, who is behind the campaign.
