They may be protected but money still wins - Saudi Prince Reportedly Killed About 2,000 Endangered B - Polidicks

[QUOTE]KARACHI: A Saudi prince has poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai, Balochistan, during which the royal also indulged in illegal hunting in protected areas, says a report. The report titled ‘Visit of Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud regarding hunting of houbara bustard’ prepared by Jaffar Baloch, divisional forest officer of the Balochistan forest and wildlife department, Chagai at Dalbandin, says the prince hunted for 21 days – from Jan 11, 2014 to Jan 31– and hunted 1,977 birds, while other members of his party hunted an additional 123 birds, bringing the total bustard toll to 2,100, sources said. They said that hunting of the internationally protected bird was banned in Pakistan also, but the federal government issued special permits to Gulf states’ royals. Permits, which are person specific and could not be used by anyone else, allow the holders to hunt up to100 houbara bustards in 10 days in the area allocated, excluding reserved and protected areas. The report dated Feb 4, 2014 (No: 216-219 HB/CHI) says that during the 21-day safari the prince hunted the birds for 15 days in the reserved and protected areas, poached birds in other areas for six days and took rest for two days. Giving a breakup of date-wise as well as area-wise details of the prince’s expedition, the report says that he hunted 112 houbara bustards in the Gut game sanctuary (Arbe pat) which is a reserved and protected area on Jan 11, 2014.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.dawn.com/news/1101272/arab-royal-hunts-down-2100-houbara-bustards-in-three-week-safari[/URL]

Bastard.

[QUOTE=Craigewan;44613145]Bastard.[/QUOTE] a bustard poaching bastard [img]http://i.imgur.com/ba8MQ9n.jpg[/img] why would you even want to kill this

Bird in question [t]http://m8.i.pbase.com/o2/39/890439/1/134570868.ajqz6vzy.DSC_3435pix.jpg[/t] Edit: Dammit Turnips

[img]http://i.imgur.com/LbKvIUq.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/veYmLuI.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/T6aqYr3.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/PPMVbEm.gif[/img]

:( R.I.P

I hate how hedonistic people like him are, not giving a shit about destroying a whole species or the ecosystem. Shame nothing can be done, since he has the almighty dollar.

What a prick. This shouldn't be legal.

Considering that the traditional princely way to hunt these birds is with falcons, that's both a pretty impressive and depressing number of birds

[QUOTE=Craigewan;44613145]Bastard.[/QUOTE] More like goddamn asshole, seeing as how he stayed for more than twice the amount of days he was allowed to, and killed [I]thousands[/I] of birds when the legal limit is 100. He didn't even stay in the area he was given the permit to!

I don't understand why anyone would want to do something like this. I can just imagine the bloke waking up brushing his teeth putting on his turban and saying: today i'll kill 2000 endangered animals for no particular reason, boy that's going to be fun.

Am I the only one one's impressed? Nearly two thousand birds in 15 days, while the rest of his party couldn't even get 150. What was he using to "hunt"? Carpet Bombing? Napalm?

Give him several years, and he won't be able to pay himself above the law when the oil wells dry up.

[QUOTE=Lium;44613236]What a prick. This shouldn't be legal.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure it isn't, dude.

Killing for the sake of killing. All those corpses are just going to rot now.

"screw the rules i have money" how many saudi princes are there anyway?

[QUOTE=Joazzz;44613596]"screw the rules i have money" how many saudi princes are there anyway?[/QUOTE] 15k estimated, tho the amount of the ones who have the big money is around 2k estimated. Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud"]Wikipedia[/URL]

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;44613294]Give him several years, and he won't be able to pay himself above the law when the oil wells dry up.[/QUOTE] Or he can invest now and not worry about that later.

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;44613294]Give him several years, and he won't be able to pay himself above the law when the oil wells dry up.[/QUOTE] He likely has some sort of personal banker investing his money for him. When the oil dries up I doubt he will care because he will still be filthy rich. Its easier to stay rich than it is to become rich.

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;44613294]Give him several years, and he won't be able to pay himself above the law when the oil wells dry up.[/QUOTE] Oil wells are not going to dry up in several years

[QUOTE=Starpluck;44614067]Oil wells are not going to dry up in several years[/QUOTE] Yeah, if we try to conserve oil instead of burning it up at an astounding rate.

Perhaps my statement was too rash (I digress), still he's an asshat

what the fuck so many assholes, the rich ones are the worst because they have so much for so little effort and they don't deserve it. prince mega douche

I told you about them kebabs, but you didn't listen

[QUOTE=Turnips5;44613159]a bustard poaching bastard [img]http://i.imgur.com/ba8MQ9n.jpg[/img] why would you even want to kill this[/QUOTE] can people pet these? they look cute and like they'd made cute sounds why would you kill them what the fuck

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;44616139]can people pet these? they look cute and like they'd made cute sounds why would you kill them what the fuck[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]internationally protected[/QUOTE] Thats a no.

[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;44614110]Yeah, if we try to conserve oil instead of burning it up at an astounding rate.[/QUOTE] it's still not likely to run out for the better part of a few decades due to how much of it is actually located around various places in the globe

never understood the fascination with slaughtering massive amounts of birds with modern weaponry, its not even a competition at this point, if you're going to do this, do it with muzzle loaders and flash-pans or go home you scrub

[QUOTE=ryandaniels;44613282]Am I the only one one's impressed? Nearly two thousand birds in 15 days, while the rest of his party couldn't even get 150. What was he using to "hunt"? Carpet Bombing? Napalm?[/QUOTE] I'm curious as well, as he practically bagged [i]6 for every hour he spent there[/i].

[QUOTE=The Duke;44616339]I'm curious as well, as he practically bagged [i]6 for every hour he spent there[/i].[/QUOTE] He probably had some good hunters with himself.