I don’t support trophy hunting and I highly doubt there is any argument out there that would sway my opinions to being in favor of it.Īs the Washington Post reported, “Over the years, Botha honed ‘Monteria hunts,’ a European-style method of using dogs to chase game toward hunters, who lie in wait to fire on the animals. It’s the epitome of unbalanced and unchecked masculine energy, and to me it’s a summary of all things wrong with the way the world currently is. It just comes across to me as egotistical, aggressive, unnecessary, and evil. There’s just no good, verifiable reason for trophy hunting animals who are endangered species beyond an arrogant and egotistical human need to dominate all things we deem below us. Trophy hunters enrage me, so I can’t honestly say that there isn’t a small part of me feeling a sense of satisfaction over the irony of this story. If you believe in karma as I do, this is a moment of karmic leveling. I like to think Mother Nature is saying, “f*ck you,” in her own way. Another hunter then shot the elephant, causing her to collapse on Botha.Īnd, if I may add just one more ironic twist, Botha was close friends with Scott van Zyl, another game hunter who was also killed in Zimbabwe last month when he was eaten by crocodiles.Ĭoincidence? I think not.
(Go elephants!) Botha opened fire, but one of the elephants got close enough to lift him with her trunk. We couldn’t make this stuff up! Seriously, we couldn’t.īuzzfeed reported that, “Theunis Botha, 51, was leading an afternoon hunt at Good Luck Farm, near Hwange National Park, Friday when the group stumbled upon a herd of elephants, according to South African media reports.”Īnd to add to the peculiar twist of irony in this story, this is the very same park where Cecil the lion was illegally shot and killed by an American dentist trophy hunter in 2015.Īnother news agency, Netwerk24, reported that the encounter spooked the animals and several elephants charged the hunters. A famous South African big-game hunter has died after being crushed by an elephant that had been shot during a hunt in Zimbabwe.
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