{"id":762795,"date":"2021-01-22T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762795"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:56:16","slug":"thrill-of-the-kill-a-behind-the-scenes-expose-of-killing-animals-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762795","title":{"rendered":"THE THRILL OF THE KILL: A Behind the Scenes Expos\u00e9 of Killing Animals For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Botswana\u2019s President from 2008-2014, who banned trophy hunting while he was in office, compares trophy hunting to how ISIS terrorists display the severed heads of their victims.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARC BEKOFF:<\/strong> In his latest book called Trophy Leaks: Trophy Hunters and Industry Secrets Revealed, the third in a series focusing on the violent sport of trophy hunting, award-winning author and Animal Hero Awards winner Eduardo Gon\u00e7alves &#8220;exposes the incredible kill scores of the world\u2019s top trophy hunters and the astonishing &#8216;covert operations&#8217; funded by the industry to prevent their sick sport from being banned.&#8221; Eduardo&#8217;s highly respected trilogy has been recognized as the most thorough detailed data-driven expos\u00e9 of this wide-ranging brutal industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group who hunt for sport include many medical doctors, dentists (one of whom, an American, killed Cecil the lion, a reprehensible murder that went viral globally), lawyers, educators, executives, and &#8220;conservationists&#8221;. Abigail Day, a Cambridge educated lawyer, has killed more than 200 &#8220;trophy animals&#8221; and has been recognized as a top trophy hunter and has won more than 20 awards from Safari Club International (SCI) who support this egregious activity. &#8220;She is one of only two living British hunters known to have won SCI\u2019s &#8216;African Big 5&#8217; award for shooting a lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, and cape buffalo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book&#8217;s foreword comes from Ian Khama, Botswana\u2019s President from 2008-2014 and who banned trophy hunting while he was in office. He compares trophy hunting to how ISIS terrorists display the severed heads of their victims&#8230; In two previous interviews with Mr. Gon\u00e7alves, the world&#8217;s leading authority on recreational killing, he covered many other aspects of the &#8220;extinction industry&#8221; and &#8220;gratuitous killing for fun.&#8221;3 Here&#8217;s what he had to say about his new riveting game-changing book that is receiving high praise from conservative as well as progressive media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/animal-emotions\/202012\/trophy-leaks-behind-the-scenes-expos-killing-fun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CMPcUVjfyzM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARC BEKOFF: In his latest book called Trophy Leaks: Trophy Hunters and Industry Secrets Revealed, the third in a series focusing on the violent sport of trophy hunting, award-winning author and Animal Hero Awards winner Eduardo Gon\u00e7alves &#8220;exposes the incredible kill scores of the world\u2019s top trophy hunters and the astonishing &#8216;covert operations&#8217; funded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,18,20,22,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,32,35,37],"class_list":["post-762795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-ethics","category-justice","category-morality","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-free-living","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762798,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762795\/revisions\/762798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/762796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}