Facebook Deletes Woman's Photos Posing With Big Game Animals

[FWS]

Facebook deletes woman's photos posing with big game hunting kills

By The Associated Press, ABC7 News
July 7, 2014

DALLAS (WJLA/AP) - Facebook has deleted some big game trophy photos posted by a Texas Tech cheerleader, saying they violated its standards.

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However, 19-year-old Kendall Jones later shared a Fox News Channel montage of the deleted photos of rhinos, elephants, lions and leopards killed or tranquilized.

Jones has received both criticism and support online after posting the pictures of herself in Africa hunting rare, exotic animals while reportedly on safari with her father. Jones says on her public Facebook page that the hunts are legal.

A statement issued Thursday by Facebook says it removes "reported content that promotes poaching of endangered species, the sale of animals for organized fight or content that includes extreme acts of animal abuse."

An online petition calling for Jones to be banned from Facebook received nearly 50,000 signatures after the photos were first posted.



Jones has staunchly defended her posts and hobby, calling herself a conservationist and humanitarian. She argues that funds from legal, for-profit hunts like the ones she attends help pay for wildlife conservation efforts to stop poachers, and lead to an increase in the population of endangered species.

Jones tells media outlets that she has received several death threats since the online controversy began.

In response to criticism, she posted a photo of former President Thomas Jefferson next to a hippopotamus he killed on her Facebook page, pointing out that he shared her hobby yet is widely considered to be an honored conservationist.

She also quoted a September 2013 issue of National Geographic, which reads, "Without the natural resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management."

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment why the montage is permitted. Jones hasn't returned messages from The Associated Press.

Some media outlets report that all the attention has led to Jones entering talks to possibly host her own wildlife/hunting show on TV in the near future. Jones has classified herself as a "public figure" on Facebook.

[trappnman]

f*** Facebook

[PamIsMe]

I dunno, I think it has to do as much , if not more, with the animals she's posing with as the fact that she's a female hunter.
The only reason to shoot them is trophy hunting. It's not the same as hunting for game the family can sit down and eat for dinner. It's hard for people to understand the joy in posing with a dead elephant or a lion, legal or not. It's a rich persons sport which most can't identity with, including me. Same goes for pen hunting.

Cheers,
Pam

[Jarhead620]

Pam,

I agree with you. Rich people whacking 40 head of African big game to put their heads on the wall of an outsized trophy room is all about money and ego. Shooting some freaky whitetail in a pen for big bucks is even worse. Just my opinion.

Jarhead

[FWS]

s the fact that she's a female hunter.

No, they specifically target female hunters with the worst vitriol, too much evidence of that.

Rich people whacking 40 head of African big game to put their heads on the wall of an outsized trophy room is all about money and ego.

Larry, most of the guys hunting Africa are not especially wealthy, I know a bunch who aren't. They can hunt Africa for plains game and maybe Cape buffalo or leopard for less than many guided or private lands hunts in the U.S.

And a lot of em' leave the head/horns behind because shipping, import fees, and taxidermy costs as much as going on another hunt. And they'd rather go on another hunt..............

[PamIsMe]

So what's the point of it FWS? If someone can afford to go hunting in Africa more than once, they certainly have more money than I do. Airfare alone to Africa has to be upwards of $3000.00. I guess its all a matter of priorities.

Cheers,
Pam

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

The point of it is that guys like to hunt. They probably finance the mgt. programs over there much like we do here. Money changes hands which benefits local economies and airfare, clothing, taxidermy, etc. etc. benefits our economies.

It's a transfer of money from rich people to poor people. Isn't that enough to justify it in your mind.

[FWS]

If someone can afford to go hunting in Africa more than once, they certainly have more money than I do.

Maybe, but not necessarily.

I guess its all a matter of priorities.

Exactly, it's how you choose to spend what you have on what you value most. Lot of the guys I know who hunt Africa, have grand slams on North American sheep, hunt mule deer in 3 states every year, and so on are just average working people who spend on hunting trips rather than new cars, pricey homes, etc, etc.

Airfare alone to Africa has to be upwards of $3000.00

Can be, but it's often 1/2 that depending on where and when you go, there are travel agents who specialize in hunting that will find you the best deal.