BY ED STODDARD Hunting, especially trophy hunting, is a thorny issue that has taken centre stage in countries such as the UK in the wake of the slaying of a Zimbabwean lion named Cecil in 2015. A recent book takes an objective look at the topic and reaches conclusions that both hunters and animal welfare activists will find discomfiting. Trophy Hunting by Nikolaj Bichel and Adam … Continue reading The Polarising Issue of Trophy Hunting
BY JOHN NASH The British Government, still busy virtue-signalling as it sinks into the quicksand of its own making, has now decided to extend the import ban on ivory to cover animals like hippos, orcas, narwhals, walruses, and sperm whales. Defra, the Department for the Elimination of Farms and Agriculture, says that after elephants, the hippopotamus is the species most at risk of being hunted … Continue reading The Government Tooth Fairy
BY JOHN NASH The simple navel-lint miners of the Westminster asylum have now voted to ban the import of hunting trophies. I will try to put this into context so that readers might understand the true horror of this crass demonstration of arrogant, neo-colonial folly. The “debate” on Friday 17th March was a predictable re-run of the kabuki theatre performances seen earlier in October … Continue reading Not So Black and White, My Lords
BY AFRICAN COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY LEADERS In this open letter to the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, 109 representatives of community-run conservation areas in the four African countries which come together in the massive Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) respond to the bill currently before the British Parliament to ban the import of hunting trophies to the UK. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier … Continue reading Colonialism All Over Again
BY JOHN NASH The cerebral world of academia has given gas-and-air birth to another classical study for the world’s edification and delight, published a couple of months ago in People and Nature and in Popular Science. Four eminent researchers have postulated that rhino horns are becoming smaller and conclude that selective human hunting might be to blame, saying, “we found evidence of declining horn size … Continue reading Horns of a Dilemma
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that my weekly message and prayer find You well. This week I would like to focus on the developing world which too often faces suffering We fail to see or acknowledge. While back home We see stories of high inflation and moan about a cost of living crisis, We should do well to remember Our fellow … Continue reading A Prayer for the Developing World
BY JOHN NASH For those of you who may have missed it, Country Squire Magazine published my piece about the outrageous, unwarranted persecution and hate-mongering voided upon an innocent, law-abiding Mr Rizwan and his family by a fly-speck gutter reporter at the Mirror. You can see that Mr Rizwan is a decent family bloke in a short video (and rather more polite article than mine) … Continue reading Trophy Hunting is Not Killing Off A Single Species
BY MARK CRUDGINGTON Lord Goldsmith wants trophy hunting banned because he finds the idea of it, as well as photos of hunters posing with dead animals, repulsive. This is a call echoed and endorsed by celebrities such as Ricky Gervais, Peter Egan, Chris Packham and even the explorer Ranulph Fiennes. Lord Goldsmith claims trophy hunting is helping species extinction as well as damaging some environments … Continue reading Truth Clashes with Ivory Towers
BY JOHN NASH There is a CITES meeting in Panama this month, ostensibly to discuss global wildlife protection and trade. Like many before it, it will be infested with top-table eco-parasites sucking a living out of the more serious adult matters, led by Animal Rights Extremists and Big International NGOs all busy buying poor delegates’ votes as usual. Suspiciously coincidental, on 25th November, there is yet … Continue reading Khama Chameleon
BY JOHN NASH The Mirror Online published more hate speech on October 22nd, in a piece by Sean Rayment, their ex-para who usually writes about military matters but has now apparently gone AWOL from reality. Maybe he has developed PTSD, poor sod. In the piece: “Campaigners slam company arranging trophy hunting safari to kill wildlife in South Africa”, he reported that “Members of the Avon … Continue reading Africa Deserves Better
BY EDDIE ROBERTS “When I was born, the angels rained tiny bells upon the roof – they were actually shell cases falling from the guns of WW2 fighters in the Kent skies high above. After the war, my family moved from the devastation of Gravesend on the Thames to the relatively untouched peace of West Cornwall.” The Cartoonist John Nash is one sharp cookie. (Not to be confused with his … Continue reading Who Is John Nash?
BY PAUL STONES Before reading this piece, I ask that you consider that I am not a trained journalist like the one whose article has spurred me into action. As a professional hunter myself, my agenda is clear and open – I wish to see a future in which hunting remains one of the cornerstones of good conservation practice. The moniker that hunters are merely … Continue reading Does Hunting Have Value Beyond the Rhetoric?
BY JOHN NASH A report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting June 29, 2022: If you wander into a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting (APPGBTH), you may be forgiven for thinking you have wandered into the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars…it is a smug, tinfoil-hat group of cranks and zealots who suffer from a bizarre, … Continue reading Trophy Hunting & Britain: The Case for a Ban
BY RON THOMSON The American Racketeering and Criminal Organisations Act (1970) (The RICO Act) explains the character – or the ‘soul’ if you like – of the International Animal Rights brigade. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an … Continue reading The American RICO Act & Animal Rights
BY RON THOMSON After World War II, the League of Nations was dismantled and replaced by a new international organisation which called itself The United Nations (the UN). In 1948, the UN created a sub-division of its responsibilities which it called the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP’s purpose was to address itself to all matters pertaining to the environment. Dividing its responsibilities, UNEP established … Continue reading Conservation? Management? What Do These Terms Mean?
BY JOHN NASH Oh, dear. A cruel and evil trophy hunter has murdered, for money, one of Africa’s last great bull elephants, an elephant that many tourists were clamouring to see. He could have provided thousands of photo-tourists with unknown years of pleasure. Now the poor people of Botswana have been deprived of years of tourist income, the magnificent bull has lost his right to life, and the … Continue reading Cecil
BY JOHN NASH On 10th December, our beloved government issued a press release stating that they would ban the importation of hunting trophies. This was a government press release, issued by unelected Zac Goldsmith and his new glove puppet, George Eustice, MP, so it is undeniably official government stuff. There is absolutely no scientific or factual reason to create such a ban. Without digging through … Continue reading Airheads & Con-Artists
BY IWMC We should never forget that The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established 50 years before the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In August, Ndoskoy Sangau (9), Sangau Metui (10), Sanka Saning’o (10) were killed by lions in a nature conservation area. It was a brutal reminder of the growing risk of human wildlife conflict … Continue reading The Inhumanity of the Animal Rights Lobby
BY JENS ULRICH HØGH Sir Ranulph Fiennes has once again embarked on a crusade against hunting. This time in an article in The Times on July 1st. As usual, he is not afraid of working creatively with the truth. He outrageously claims without further documentation that: “Half the animals shot by trophy hunters are wounded rather than instantly killed, say US studies.” My educated guess is … Continue reading Fact Checking Sir Ranulph
BY JOHN NASH Everyone is aware of the furore over “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) and, although people are personally not guilty of racism, nor do they apparently harbour any racist thoughts and intentions, most people presume others, or our ancestors, must be guilty and so, being ordinarily helpful and sympathetic people, they go along passively with the general thrust of BLM. The question is, what … Continue reading A Tribute to Rural Africa
