The bloodlust of modern-day hunters is a disaster for the planet | Philip Hoare
by Philip Hoare from on (#WAF9)
People queue up to kill Norways's wolves and bears, while Japan continues its whale slaughter. Despite the noble claims, there's no justification for hunting as entertainment
It is one of the world's less lovely lotteries. Just under 12,000 people - the vast majority men - have registered for the chance to kill 16 wolves in the Norwegian hunting season, ostensibly to protect the nation's livestock. Wild bears suffer the same onerous odds, with 10,000 humans going in pursuit of 18 animals. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Japanese whaling fleet launches into its own new season, in an operation subsidised by its government. Today its whaling fleet sails for Antarctica, defying a UN resolution that their "scientific research" is nothing of the kind.
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