This shiny-toothed dentist has been in trouble before, precisely in 2008, lying about the kill location of a black bear in Wisconsin, USA. He was fined a ludicrously small amount and sent on his way. Another life taken in recreation much as one scores as the ball finds the back of the net. It shouldn't be like this, humans (most, I do believe) are better than this...aren't we?
Just because something is still legal, does not make it correct to pursue. Our earth is in a shambles caused by humans. No one is going to bail us out or take our hand and fix what we have managed to destroy and are in the midst of destroying. Sometimes common sense, such as the loss (no longer potential loss) of large predator species (oh lord, why can't it be us?) take precedence over canned hunts, culture and heritage. We DO know better, but we believe we are entitled to do what we want, what money can buy, who we need to pay off, what our ancestors did.... These excuses are very poor justifications to keep on keeping on in the way we have always done things. Fortunately, they no longer work for the majority of people. We are tired, sick, and depressed reading and seeing these horrors on a daily basis. We can't and shouldn't turn our heads away any longer, otherwise we condone these actions. Our earth, and all her inhabitants, are reaching a tipping point and I hope with all my heart that we, as humans, are reaching a turning point. If not us, then no one.... xx