{"id":45472,"date":"2020-04-18T09:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=45472"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:16:50","slug":"illegal-poacher-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/illegal-poacher-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal poacher shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This happened in Matabeleland<br \/>\nIn a private conservancy<br \/>\nBUBYE VALLEY west of Beitbridge<br \/>\nIn Zimbabwe and apparently<br \/>\nillegal poachers<br \/>\nAfter killing black rhino  and they<br \/>\nShot a young male Lion alas<br \/>\nwhich  brought the  rangers<br \/>\nTo engage with them so they say<br \/>\nOne was killed and one escaped<br \/>\nTo kill another day.<\/p>\n<p>This area is a pristine low veld  area<br \/>\nPacked with wildlife<br \/>\nAnd safari\u2019s selling kills<br \/>\n35 different species there<br \/>\nPays your money takes the shots<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called conservation hunting<br \/>\nA bunch of mindless bots<br \/>\nBut hunters pay a lot to do the dirty work<br \/>\nAnd big game is a draw across the world<br \/>\nSo there\u2019s lots of these safaris selling packages<br \/>\nAnd the title conservation one hears hurled<br \/>\nIf you pay the hunting rates<br \/>\nYou are welcome<br \/>\nIf you come illegally you are not<br \/>\nClearly these two they were after rhino horn<br \/>\nAnd Lion bones too for illegal trade is hot<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s power and influence is clearly<br \/>\nContributing to the illegality<br \/>\nRhino horn though keratin and with no healing qualities<br \/>\nIs lied about and scoundrels prick their ears<br \/>\nmake the trip to earn a fair old packet<br \/>\nAnd in the process cause a lot of tears<br \/>\nThe impact on wild Rhino\u2019s is catastrophic<br \/>\nEncouraging such low life to appear<br \/>\nAnd they really do not recognise authority<br \/>\nWhich is why in Africa great fear<br \/>\nExists and so to kill one of them clearly<br \/>\nIs a feather in their cap one has to say<br \/>\nThey  really want to catch the other blighter<br \/>\nWho seemingly might now be far away<br \/>\nThese kinds of low life are sub normal mentally<br \/>\nShort-sighted thoughtless individuals who<br \/>\nAre duplicitous and fraudulent in their dealings<br \/>\nDeceitful lying cretins it is  true<br \/>\nIniquitous and sinful every thought they ever have<br \/>\nObnoxious vile and villainous they be<br \/>\nWe have to put an end to all this filthy dirty poaching<br \/>\nHang the buggers from the nearest tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened in Matabeleland In a private conservancy BUBYE VALLEY west of Beitbridge In Zimbabwe and apparently illegal poachers After killing black rhino and they Shot a young male Lion alas which brought the rangers To engage with them so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/illegal-poacher-shot-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,194,4,102,123,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-animal-rights","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-lions","category-rhino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45472"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45482,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45472\/revisions\/45482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}