The farmer who gave Mugabe the baby elephant, Tendai Musasa, told the Los Angeles Times he chose the young bull because he had a "tendency of charging and hostility to farmers." Musasa said that the killing was meant as a message to other elephants not to be aggressive:
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Conflicts between humans and elephants are a major problem in some parts of Africa, often resulting from human encroachment on elephant habitat. Strategies to protect farms from elephants who once considered the land home include installing beehive walls to stave off marauding elephants, building electric fences and even using chili pepper spray as a deterrent. Any of these could be used to ward off an "aggressive" elephant - instead of serving him on a plate to a wealthy leader.
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An animal protection activist on Facebook made the original post that alerted me and enraged me as to the godawful egregious barbarity and cruelty of these subhuman trophy killers. This was one of her responses on Facebook after she posted the photo of the two hunters grinning over the dead infant elephant:
So, I've been reported to FB for sharing "violent and criminal" information and FB has removed my "abusive" comment. It's particularly disturbing to me that they don't consider the above pictures abusive or criminal because the only information they chose to remove is, in fact, the details I posted about the owners of the safari company that organizes and condones this type of murder! One thing to remember FB... what's gone from your rosy world is not gone from my realistic one!
The serial killer who collects animals trophies is: Mike Jines
Phone: +678-297-3913 Email: mike.jines|AT|topgenergy.netEmail address
Profile: .linkedin.com/in/mikejines/ Company: genenergy.net
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This was the killer Mike Jines' commentary on a related elephant slaughter:
The hunt started with a bang . . . literally. Less than thirty minutes into the first morning of the first day we experienced a double elephant cow charge. This was obviously a first for me but it turns out it was a first for Buzz as well. We saw a group of cows from the road and decided to follow them to see if a tuskless was in the group. We caught them quickly and identified a tuskless. We positioned ourselves to get a good look at the tuskless and concluded that since it was just Day 1 we would pass. An instant later she came in an all out charge. Buzz and I both fired two shots a piece and she went down. Then from behind us a large one-tusked cow charged at full speed. We each fired one shot and she crashed to the ground with her hind legs out behind her, indicating the speed and determination of her charge. The two cows were less than forty feet apart with Buzz and I in the middle. Fortunately we had positioned ourselves in some open ground so we had good visibility when the charges came. Certainly a little more excitement than we had bargained for on Day 1.
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From one of the journals kept by one on the safari, promoted by the agency to attract other trophy hunters to their safaris, as such authentic testimony about what fun it is to kill a whole bunch of helpless defenseless animals in one day:
At that point, I worked a deal with Buzz on a trophy Elephant that was left on Quota in Dande East. We moved that afternoon over to that camp and chased Ele on Days 4,5,6 and the morning of the 7th. We were unable to catch up to any of them. They like to come into the area at night and eat the Villagers crops and Massai? Berries and the return to Mozambique at night. The wind blows from the East and they walk into it preventing you from getting ahead of them and also making it very hard to catch up to them. We caught them one day right on the border and got to 100 yds or so but the wind shifted and gave us away and that was it. Oh well! We also found a Sable dying in the bush and there was nothing we could do about it. Pretty sad but if we had shot it to put it out of its misery then we would have had to pay a trophy fee on it. We went back in the next day and he was dead. There were femal Leopard tracks around but she had not fed. No signs of a male so we moved on after some pics. He had broken both horn tips off while struggling and he measured 37" with 9.5" bases.
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