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Africa Subsaharan
Kruger Park SA: Where Black Poachers are Hunted as Much As Their Prey
2017-08-09
[Newsweek] Ten wealthy white guys from New York’s Long Island, expensively armed and outfitted, head out into the bush to hunt the king of beasts. Over nine days, ten captive-bred and drugged lions are transported to a private reserve and then released to stumble around in habitat they’ve never seen before.

The hunters head out in jeeps, then climb trees, so they can aim down with high-powered automatic weapons at the disoriented animals. Terrified by the flying bullets, the lions--still doped-up and accustomed to being fed by humans since birth--panic. They cower against fences or squeeze into warthog burrows, but there really is no place to hide. Soon, each of these white Americans will have a trophy lion head to bring back to the USA. And the worst injuries they will have suffered for their efforts are sunburn and a hangover.
Lodge, meals and transport R20000 per day. Game prices vary.
Two black men slink through tall buffalo grass on the trail of a rhino. One shoots, the massive beast falls, and the shooter’s partner rapidly slices off its horn. The two men then flee on foot, leaving behind a grotesquely mutilated but possibly still living rhino. That horn will net enough money to buy a car and TV, as well as send their children to high school. And so they run, racing through grasslands where hippos and elephants frequently kill foraging humans, as lion and leopard prowl behind rocks. Their goal: getting over one of the great fences that delineate public and private land before Park Rangers white mercenary soldiers with night-vision goggles hunt them down and kill them.
Nothing personal, it's just business, and the business will flourish as long as the SA, Zim, Bots, Moz, Namibian Governments get their cut. After all, it is Africa.
Posted by:Besoekeri

#3  One problem. Kreuger Park doesn't have unlimited deficit borrowing ability.
Posted by: Gomez Slesh2786   2017-08-09 17:00  

#2  U.S. Federal government solution:

Fire the white colonist interlopers. Hire the poachers as Park Rangers. Pay them 2-3 times what the average worker makes along with a healthy 20 year pension and medical coverage for life. Organize them into bargaining units in order that they cannot be fired. Let them keep seized property, ivory, etc. for their own personal redemption.

Problem solved.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-09 08:54  

#1  Easy enough, put a bounty on poachers for the huntsmen.
Posted by: Skidmark    2017-08-09 08:24  

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