The journey to kill a black rhino

[Omaha Steve]

Hunter Corey Knowlton. (Photos: Facebook; Martin Harvey/Getty Images; Flickr)


http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/10/19/black-rhino-delta-trophy-ban-lawsuit-airlines?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-10-19

OCT 19, 2015Taylor Hill is an associate editor at TakePart covering environment and wildlife.

Last year, when Texas big game hunter Corey Knowlton purchased a $350,000 permit to hunt and kill a critically endangered black rhino in Namibia, he did so with the intention of bringing the dead animal back to the U.S. with him.

But that was before a Minnesota dentist shot Cecil, Zimbabwe’s most famous lion, and commercial carriers, under mounting public pressure, banned the transport of lion, elephant, tiger, and rhino trophies on their flights. United, American, and Delta Airlines all joined South African Airways and Emirates, which put such policies in place earlier in 2015, in enacting the ban.

So when Knowlton tried to bring his prized carcass back after a much-scrutinized May 2015 hunt, Delta allegedly denied his request to transport the animal from southern Africa. To Knowlton and a consortium of pro-hunting groups, that’s discrimination against hunters.

In a lawsuit filed Oct. 15, Dallas Safari Club, Houston Safari Club, Conservation Force, Knowlton, and others argue that Delta’s ban on big game trophy transport is unlawful, “robbing the species of the enhancement tourist hunting provides,” the suit claims.

FULL story at link.

[onehandle]

1. Creep gun fondler. nt

[Geronimoe]

2. Robbing endangered species of extinction

The Airlines behaving as Robin Hood might.

This is called free market principles. The airlines don't have to serve this creep if they don't want to.

[turbinetree]

3. The talley, and this god damn hypocrites ego to make it less one more-------------he can go FO

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/oct/27/rhino-endangered-species-wildlife-wwf