Whether you agree with hunting or not, there is absolutely no excuse for illegal poaching. When humans take part in this type of activity, they have gone beyond survival or hunting legitimately and it falls into the realm of very bad behavior.
There are times when hunting is quite necessary, such as if you are stuck in the wilderness and need food to survive. On the other hand, if you have a prosperous dental practice and you simply want to spend a lot of money to kill animals for fun, then there is no excuse for what you are doing.
Over the summer, a lion named Cecil was killed by a dentist and for many of us, it was our first look behind the scenes at illegal hunting. That situation certainly did get a lot of bad press!
In what can only be referred to as a form of karma, the tables were turned when a lion mauled an illegal hunter to death at a private game farm near the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The man who was killed by the lion was on a hunting trip with five other men and none of them had licenses.
Along with the illegal hunter who was killed by the lion, there were also two dogs that were killed as well. Two other men wound up in a tree and another escaped without any harm. The man who died was Matome Mahlale, and he was only 24 years old.
Although a life was lost, it seems as if there weren’t many people who were feeling sorry for him. One of the locals even had this to say…
“There won’t be many people feeling sorry for him. This is seen as poetic justice for the death of Cecil.”
I’m sure that many other people will feel the same way…
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