Hello Everyone,

The new year is well and truly on its way and the cruelty you see in the picture on our website www.cannedlion.co.za/articles/regulations2007.htm is no longer acceptable.

For those of us who feel that our heritage is being destroyed, by South Africans land owners, South African hunting operators and many overseas hunters then it is time to do something about this. I do not mean one letter. I mean that it is time to really get involved.

It is time to think of every influential person, celebrity, priest, government official who you know and to approach them with requests for help to stop the killing of our wildlife.

It is time to get the church involved, approach your local minister, ask them if they think that this is how God’s creatures should be treated.

It is time to speak to your travel agents and ask them to approach government through their tourism bodies to identify reserves and resorts such as Pilanesburg so that ethical tourists may choose to avoid such facilities. It is time to expose every hunting lodge and hunting safari operator in South Africa. It is time to let the South African Embassy in your country know how you feel about the cruelty to wildlife in South Africa.

It is time to approach the airlines and petition them to ban carrying hunting rifles. Trophy hunting is deemed a ‘sport’. Killing exquisite animals is fun. Taking a life that these hunters have no right to take. They are destroying beauty and a gene pool that our wildlife cannot afford to lose. Hunting an ever decreasing population is bad enough but when you are taking out the biggest and the best you are forevery weakening the gene pool. How dare these hunters, safari hunting operators and land owners think that our wildlife is theirs to destroy. Our wildlife heritage belongs to us all and is something we borrow from our children. If we are not prepared to get involved and get active then we will lose it all.

the Petition May Be Found Here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/160781929

Please sign the petition online, ask your friends, collegues and family to do so too. These signatures will be sent to the Minister of the Environment, South Africa. It only takes a minute and it could save lives in the future. Please help me get Trophy Hunting banned in South Africa.

Please forward this as far and wide as you can, lets make each letter count.

Luv B