Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage - Nairobi Kenya
Oct 19, 2019 13:22:08 #
DJD wrote:
While touring Kenya a few months ago, our tour gro... (show quote)
These are wonderful Don and I like that you got your camera low to the ground in the shots of the baby Rhino......perfectly balanced and the background complemented the subject so well. Just gorgeous and heart-warming subject matter. The animals are so important and these people are making the world a better place for all of us.
Thanks man!
Oct 19, 2019 13:49:17 #
mas24 wrote:
I saw not long ago on the Cable News, where two poachers were shot dead. I believe searching for Rhino horns? They were found lying dead with their rifles. And had rations to last a few days. Not sure who killed them. I'm assuming someone other than the law enforcement people. I don't even like poachers in America, who hunt without a license, and hunt out of season. Thanks for sharing the photos.
I'm sorry that I don't have a link, but I know that I read a confirmed story not too long ago that at a couple of/few poachers (may have been 2 or 3) were killed and eaten by lions - - a righteous comeuppance !!! Karma's a beee-atch !!!!!
Oct 19, 2019 19:34:33 #
Agree with CHG CANON.
Sad that it has to exist but glad that it does.
Sad that it has to exist but glad that it does.
Jan 5, 2023 22:52:06 #
I visited there in 2019. My photos are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8712554@N02/sets/72157713296353757/
Jan 5, 2023 23:42:01 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I visited there in 2019. My photos are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8712554@N02/sets/72157713296353757/
Jan 5, 2023 23:55:47 #
Jan 6, 2023 11:15:15 #
will47 wrote: Poachers should be executed.
Poachers should be executed.Easy there, will47. As in almost all cases, poaching is a complicated subject. Yes, there are a Lot of Elephants poached just for their Ivory. The meat left in the field to rot. Those guys should be shot IMHO.
But what about villagers who are forced to kill Elephants to protect the crops that they and their children depend on for their lives? That is also regarded as poaching since the villagers don't have/don't pay for a hunting liscense.
Sometimes the villagers chase the Elephants off repeatedly and kill them as a last resort. Even after requesting help from local authorities which never comes.
And the meat provided from those crop depredation killings does NOT go to waste! It's often the only animal protein the villagers ever get, despite being surrounded by large wild game animals all of their lives.
Those wild game animals are too valuable to the government which makes a very substantial yearly income from tourist dollars and from paid hunting licenses. And very little of that money makes it's way to the villagers who live on the edge of existence all of their lives.
Just sayin'
Jan 6, 2023 19:36:11 #
Jan 6, 2023 19:36:44 #
I have a friend who went to Africa to hunt elephants. He had licenses for 3, and was escorted and supervised by government officials all the time. The elephants he was allowed to shoot were all near the end of their lives and the meat was harvested and distributed to all the natives in the area. He had his hunt videotaped. Each license was, IIFC, $13000/elephant.
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