Monster Leopard shot in Namibia – October 2008
November 8, 2008 in BIG TROPHIES
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Is this a big leopard or what?
This magnificent leopard was shot during October 2008 in Namibia, and it launched a chain of controversy and reaction from all walks of life. As can be expected anti-hunting lobbyist are up in arms about this hunt and have raised their outrage in all the local newspapers.
It is to be expected perhaps, as this is one of the finest trophies taken recently. The question however is if this was uncalled for or not. Read the following post and share your views with us right here.
The leopard was shot on a local cattle farmers property in Namibia, due to the fact that the farmer had reached a stage of beyond sanity. This cat was responsible for more than 50 cattle kills during the last year and the farmer had suffered huge financial losses subsequently. The farmer ended up applying for the necessary permits, and invited a professional hunter to have the animal shot by an International client.
Lobbyists claimed that the leopard’s gene’s were now lost forever and are outraged by the incident, claiming that the leopard could have been removed, instead of being shot and killed. The leopard is well over ten years old, so it also has seen and done it’s fair share of mating, so all is certainly not lost.
The farmer’s plea is that he had suffered financially and by having the leopard removed instead of hunted, would not have reimbursed him for his losses. To the contrary it would have cost him more and risking a capturing attempt with this monster was certainly not his view of another day at the office. The international hunter paid his due’s and at least the farmer received some financial return for his losses.
What is your opinion, should the cat have been shot or captured and relocated?
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Just want to know what the weight was?
ok now first i am not against hunting if it is for food i do not believe in hunting for SPORT it is a waist and stupid now for this i DO NOT like the idea of hunting big cats there is not many left in the world and if you kill them all then what move on to the next animal its bull and that was fucking huge it should have been moved into a reserve or something to study it not no one can i will say i would not have a problem with the hunting of big cats if there were alot more in the wild but the fact stands that there is not and we are losing them to history because of ignorant people that do not care to learn how to conserve wildlife
Hey guys, the only problem I have is that he’s not going to be in my house. WOW.
WOW!
This is a big leopard, don’t you think?
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