African Indaba - Land Rover Supports Anti Hunters

[Geno]

(Dankie ANDRIES)

Wat dink julle hiervan?

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African Indaba » Editorial » Landrover Supports Anti-Hunters
December 2014, Volume 12-6


For decades Landrover has been an extremely popular vehicle with wildlife conservation agencies, hunters and PH’s in Africa. These organizations and people are therefore an important target group for the company. In some countries Landrover dealers organize special events for hunters or offer vehicles that are specially equipped for hunting.

Interesting enough the Landrover Company has selected the “Born Free Foundation”, a pronounced British anti-hunting NGO as its “primary global conservation partner”. According to the company’s website “Landrover is committed to provide the Foundation with practical help by supplying vehicles as well as financial backing for the next five years, reflecting its integrated approach to building global sustainability.” Another animal rights’ campaigner, the “Environmental Investigation Agency”, which concentrates on undercover work against real and perceived wildlife crime and wildlife use, is also privileged to traverse London in a posh Range Rover Evoque.

Like most animal welfare groups, Born Free does only limited practical conservation work. It concentrates on animal welfare activities and also lobbies for its welfare objectives including denouncing hunting. In its own words the Foundation “fights to end this glorified ‘sport’”.

As an example for its animal welfare work six landrovers from the UK were used to transport a circus lion from a resort in Belgium to Schiphol airport. The poor animal was flown to Lusaka and then driven 800 kilometers by an escort of a landrover fleet led by a silver Discovery to Lilongwe in Malawi. There it is living now, again behind fences in a kind of zoo. Lion Simba (a very inventive name for a lion), as it was called, shares now this new confinement with a lion from Romania. It is unknown whether these two European lions find African fences more pleasant than European bars. It is also unknown whether this type of moving misused creatures around the world is only a publicity stunt to collect donations for Born Free or whether this is the “integrated approach to building global sustainability” Landrover speaks of on its website.

The little that Born Free does around the globe for conservation is at the same time used as a door opener for its anti-hunting propaganda and its efforts to close hunting. Also on CITES meetings, the Foundation is active to rally support against pro-wildlife-use decisions and to organize by different means votes for this cause.

On its website the Foundation agitates against hunting in Africa and killing game in “cold blood” and taking “grotesque trophies” home. Born Free concludes „that the ethical, social and biological problems associated with trophy hunting far outweigh any positive contribution the industry can possibly make.“ The Foundation is also active to put pressures on Governments to ban trophy imports. In 1993 the Foundation was instrumental to establish the so-called „Species Survival Network“, a coalition of animal welfare organizations, which works against wildlife utilization including hunting. Born Free’s President is also the President of the network.

Hunting is controversially discussed in the public. We as hunters know this. We are therefore all the time stipulated to evaluate what we are doing and to secure that our hunting is sustainable, ethical and positive for biodiversity in line with the relevant international conventions. African Indaba is a good example how hunters do not hesitate to criticize occurrences, which do not come up to accepted international hunting standards. We do not expect from a company like Landrover to agree with hunting as a way of sustainably utilizing natural resources and thereby contributing to species conservation and rural livelihoods alike. However, it is difficult to accept that an equally controversial anti-sustainable-use pressure group that tries to destroy hunting gets financed from the revenues of the landrovers, which also we hunters buy.

If you drive a landrover or plan to buy one, you may have a few questions to your local dealer.

Author: Rolf D Baldus

[DawieKotze]

Geno - ek dink nie een van ons sal van Rolf verskil nie. Hy som presies op wat almal van ons voel. Ek dink Landrover het hulle nekke bietjie baie vêr uitgesteek met hierdie een en sal maar die gevolge moet dra.

Aan die ander kant - Landrovers word seker die minste gebruik as jagvoertuie van alle soorte bakkies.

Groetnis

Dawie

[Hilux01]

As daai bunny huggers net weet hoeveel olie Land Rovers lek sal hulle n aanval kry

Se mos lankal die LR bende is maar n spesiale groepie, hopelik los die PH met sy Cruiser die LR sommer net daar as hulle iewers in die modder vas sit

[Chevvy SS]

Dis hoekom cassie syne verkoop het- hy is 'n jakkalsjagter!

[FCLoretz]

Hierdie is hoekom ek nooit 'n LR sal koop nie.

En dan natuurlik hierdie ene ook http://www.jaracal.com/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=3870

[G-force]

Gemors produk beteken nou nog minder.

[G-force]

Lees maar watse skade aluminium myne aan die omgewing doen.Hul is selfs skuldig aan dit.
http://1800recycling.com/2010/11/alumin ... nvironment

[Smitstertjies]

Selfde as Melvin en Moon wat Landvark borg. Hoop nie daar is van julle Toyota manne wat Melvin en Moon seatcovers het nie, of by Safari & Outdoor shop nie

Ek dink ons moet versigtig wees om te emosioneel hieroor te reageer, dan is ons nes soos die groenes.

As jy na Land Rover se website kyk borg hulle Born Free foundation en vereenselwig hulle hulle self met "conservation" en "protection". Nerens noem LR dat hulle anti jag is nie. Dit is n jammerte dat Born Free wel somtyds anti jag optree, maar ek glo LR wil hulle self vereenselwig met die goeie werk wat Born Free doen (waarvan daar wel so bietjie is), en nie noodwendig hulle "anti jag" dinge nie.

Ons moet wel ons stem dik maak teenoor LR en vir hulle uitwys wat hulle "conservation partners" eintlik mee besig is. Maar om hulle te boikot sal wees om jou self in die voet te skiet.

Ek wil wragtig nie nou al Toyota ry nie

[blaser]

my disco 4 is baie beter voertuig as my v8 t cruiser

[Smitstertjies]

Gemors produk beteken nou nog minder.

G Force, het jy al ooit in n Disco 4 gery?

[henried]

Toyota is dan nie so sleg nie...

[G-force]

Gemors produk beteken nou nog minder.

G Force, het jy al ooit in n Disco 4 gery?

Hy ry dalk gemaklik maar sal dalk nie elke keer by lokasie X uitkom nie.My 200 Cruiser ry dalk net so lekker.Baie voertuie ry gemaklik maar ek bly by die waarin ek en 95% van die res van die populasie vertroue het.

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g force
hoeveel kw skop daai 200 series

[Smitstertjies]

G Force,

Jy maak n baie sterk stelling oor LR sonder feite. Ek dink jy mag dalk net van brand verander as jy so n Disco 4 vir n tydjie gery het. Ek het myne nou 50000 km gery sonder n dag se moeilikheid.Op ons plaas het selfs die Toyota 4x4 bakkies gesukkel om kers vas te hou met die Disco se 4x4 vermoe.Nie eers te praat oor luxury nie.

Bygese, my groot pel, n Toyota kanniedood, smeek my om my Disco aan hom te verkoop. Ek wonder hoekom?

[G-force]

g force
hoeveel kw skop daai 200 series

Ek meet nie my tril teen n ander ou s'n nie.Ek hou van betroubaarheid en ek kry die by Toyota so ver.As dit verander sal ek dalk op n ander plek kyk,maar ek sal nie by Landrover beginne nie,teveel mense kla oor hulle.

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nie vandat tata hulle bou nie

[JAGTERSREG-JRM]

Dit is nie mooi nie......

Toe die britte die boere nie kon wen nie toe se hulle, hulle sal ons terugkry en woeps da stuur hulle landrover...................

[Albert84]

Koop maar wat al die Afrika regerings koop, as hulle nie n Cruiser kan breek nie wie kan?

[Hein22]

g force
hoeveel kw skop daai 200 series

Ek meet nie my tril teen n ander ou s'n nie.

Laat die Landrover manne maar kom meet.

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G-force, ek ry self 'n toyota en sal nie verander nie. Ek sal ook nooit 'n Land Rover koop nie, miskien werk ek maar net te hard vir my geld om dit sommer net so weg te gooi!

[Geno]

Julle pro-Land Rover manne:

Hoekom kom julle so op vir 'n handelsmerk wat teen dit is wat ons doen?

[cassie_calvinia]

die 74 model wat ek gehad het, was van onskatbare waarde, en het my iets in die lewe verniet gegee wat baie geld dalk sou kon koop.....'n graad in mechanics!