10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. So now there are lots of lions, and they like buffalo, so now there are less buffalo. And since the lions like the big buffalo and not the smaller Nyala, the Nyala have increased in numbers.

Lions 201

Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 201

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Is this moral? One, then another, flew off and brought back pine needles and twigs and laid them by his body.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whaling Whales 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

He subsequently leaves for Peru and gets kidnapped and killed by Sendero Luminoso – the local brand of Maoists. Looking left I saw a big, male buffalo behind the bush. After finishing yet another water stewardship training for a large beverage company in Accra I had some time to kill. Just a few meters away from me.

Mozambique 209

Mozambique Ghana Namibia Birds 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” We all know the answer to that – not thinking at all about the how – how on earth you actually do that – and causing a civil war that has killed hundreds of millions. Ban mind altering drugs and people won’t take them.

Tigers 170

Tigers Hunting Game Iraq 170