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CECIL THE LION - THE FABRICATION OF A STORY FILLED WITH LIES TO ELICIT DONATIONS FROM THE UNKNOWING CHARITABLE PUBLIC!

In the course of their racketeering activities using Cecil the Lion, they have cause innumerable damages to Lions, Wildlife Biodiversity and Conservation.

Duane Jacobsz with Rodney Genricks.
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Rodney Genricks - THE DUPLICITY OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS BRIGADE!

Don’t ever again let anybody say that animal rightists are good people!

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THE TRUE STORY OF CECIL THE LION.

“Cecil the Lion” was named by a well-known anti-hunting animal rights activist who lives in Zimbabwe. This man makes a living fabricating and hyping up emotional stories about wild animals – which stories generate considerable donations from the gullible public. This time, his fictional “Cecil the Lion” intervention created a huge furore world-wide; it did an awful lot of damage to legal hunting and to southern Africa’s wildlife industries, generally. He told the world that Cecil - a collared animal that, he implied, was the subject of important scientific research - was lured out of the Hwange National Park with a bait; and that he was shot under suspiciously “illegal” circumstances by an American trophy hunter.

Cecil was certainly “lured to a bait” but he was not enticed out of the national park. This fabrication was followed by several other lies about a lion called “Jericho” - Cecil’s so-called brother - also allegedly being shot in the prime of his life inside Hwange National Park. According to the researchers who put the collar around Cecil’s neck, Jericho, was not Cecil’s brother at all, and he was not shot by a hunter. And the cub in these stories - that was allegedly Cecil’s cub - was not Cecil’s cub at all. It was also not killed by a hunter and it is still alive and well in Hwange,
This one man’s stories told the world that Cecil wandered around for days in agony from his initial wounding, but our researchers tell another story. They tell us that he was shot at 10 o’clock at night, and the hunt ended at 9 o’clock the following morning just 250 metres from where Cecil had been first wounded.

All these fabricated stories were designed to pull at the heart strings of the public which they certainly did. They undoubtedly resulted in many hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars being deposited into many animal rightists’ coffers. They also, altogether, changed the urban Western World’s perceptions about hunting; about trophy hunting; and about lion hunting in particular.

The following verbatim report was written by John Jackson III, the Chairman and President of “Conservation Force” – following an article published by WILDCRU, the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit based at Oxford University in England, who were the people responsible for collaring Cecil and 44 other male lions in and around Hwange National Park. Altogether, 65 male lions - including the 45 collared ones - were shot by hunters as an integral part of the research programme orchestrated and supervised by WILDCRU. The following article was first posted in June 2016. (Acknowledgements to Cliff Tulpa)

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WILDCRU, The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit based at Oxford University that collared and satellite tracked Cecil has just published an article revealing that Cecil was not lured out of the Hwange National Park by Dr. Palmer and/or his PH. It also discloses that Cecil was in a core area he occupied outside of the park when hunted. The lion's home range was far outside of the park.

To quote the article by David W. Macdonald, et al. Cecil: A Moment or a Movement? Analysis of Media Coverage of the Death of a Lion, Panthera Leo. Animals 2016, 6, 26; doc: 10.3392, the lion had been collared and satellite tracked since 2009. Cecil was one of "65 lions that were hunted on the land surrounding the Protected Area, 45 of them were equipped with tracking devices."

"It was reported (incorrectly) to have been lured by bait out of the park..." The lion was hunted on bait out of the park. The lion was hunted on a bait, but not lured from the park as some media accounts have implied; the area was part of the lion's normal range. The ranch where the hunt took place was within the "home range" of the lion during the prior months (April, May, June) until arrowed July 1st at approximately 22:00. The hunt finished "approximately 250 m from where he was initially wounded." That was 9 am the next morning.

Analysis: The lion's "home range" from April until hunted on July 1 was as much outside of the park as in the park. He was not "lured out of the park by dragging bait from the park..." That was wholly fabricated in the early reports and continues to be misrepresented today. That inflammatory fabrication was heightened by other false reports that are not noted in the article. One media source was threatened with government sanctions for misrepresentations. Another story about the killing of Jericho, "Cecil's Brother" by another hunter within the park was also wholly concocted. Jericho was not the brother of Cecil. Jericho was not killed at all, and therefore not "killed by a hunter in the park."
The false report that one of Cecil's cubs had been killed was also alarming. The cub was not likely to have been Cecil's and still survives today.

There was the suggestion by all that the killing of a collared lion was in itself illegal. Not so; most lion taken for over a decade in the area were collared, 45 of the 65. One of the purposes of the collaring research was to determine the causes of the mortality of the pride lion.
Editorial and social media both carried the message that lion were in danger of extinction. Not true by any stretch of the imagination. The lion quota was extremely low, cautionary, and scientifically based. The local communities and hunting operators had been incentivized by the safari hunting revenue to shepherd the lion as potential trophies instead of livestock-eating vermin. Yours truly had made an in-person appeal to the conservancy land owners adjoining the park to take down the livestock fences, eliminate the cattle, and let the lions grow to be more valuable trophies. But for that approach Cecil may have never been born, and surely would not have lived to a scruffy old 13 years of age. Following the suggested changes, the lion population in the park increased from 300-400 to 800 with a growing "resident population" outside of the park boundaries at the time Cecil was taken.

There should no longer be any doubt that fabrications, apparent illegality, and ignorance made "a perfect storm" that otherwise would not have been a rational reaction. Let's hope that lion conservation and the good people that must tolerate lion don't bear the costs of the fabricated storytelling.

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John aka NitroX

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