Walking into a Mausoleum!
Ever felt that spooky feeling of angst?
As new residents here we like to drive or walk around to familiarize ourselves with the areas and the activities around here.
Today we stumbled upon this place and the owner gave me permission to take the photos in this post.
Have a look!
All of the animals were culled, meaning that their populations became too big and they were killed so that the others can survive.
So this guy is supplied with the dead animals and he is in the taxidermy business!
One gets a feeling of dead eyes staring at one!
Big and small, they are all in here!
Beautiful animals that once roamed the wilds!
What is happening to our world?
This is what I read in the newspaper of today.
"Africa's ground for illegal Pangolin trade"
"In a rubble-strewn storage lot in the sprawling Nigerian port city of Lagos, customs agents crack open a shipping container crammed with scales from Pangolin, a shy mammal prized in Asia for it's use in medicines.
They say porous borders, lax law enforcement, corruption and one of the continents biggest ports have helped criminal networks in Nigeria corner most of the African trade in Pangolin - considered the most trafficked mammal.
This year alone Hong Kong and Singapore have intercepted 3 huge shipments of Pangolin scale weighing a combined 33.9 tons, and worth more than $100 million based on estimates of their value in Singapore".
Source: Cape Times Friday September 20, 2019.
Now you can see why the African Pangolin is on the endangered list. I simply cannot understand the slaughter and the poaching that continues unabated to rape the African continent of it's wildlife.
And it is all for money!
Note: Please note that all of this Taxidermist's work with the animals are legal, as they only work with culled animals and not with poached animals. In fact they are also against poaching in Africa!
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No matter how much I like to see these beautiful animals up close, it saddens me that they aren't being seen wild and free!
And that poaching just sickens me. I always think of the wild bison that use to roam the prairies here in herds of thousands being slaughtered for their hide. The bodies were left to rot and this eradication of the bison greatly affected the aboriginal peoples who where dependent on them for their food and clothing. The destroying of the bison herds meant the destruction of the aboriginal's way of life! Such a tragedy and all because of greed!
Ooops! I missed this one my friend and I do apologize!
The Bison were all killed off, as they were the staple food of the American Indians and the government wanted to get the Indians into the camps, so that they could take all of their land. As per my friend the historian @janton
The same thing happened here in South Africa when the British opened concentration camps, as they put all the women and children into the camps and they destroyed their farms and their livestock. Thousand of the camp residents also died.
All of this also motivated by greed.
"When will we ever learn"?
Blessings!
How horrible! I had never heard of that part of your history there. I have such a hard time to even fathom some of the atroucities people can do to each other! And as you say it is all for greed! Yes! When will it end!
A terrible situation indeed my friend. But of course the criminals do not care as all that they want is money and they will destroy anything to get it. It might end when the eco system collapses. So sad.
Too many animals ending up on endangered list, have never gone into a place with heads hanging around, not sure if I could bring myself into a place like this.
We were traveling in an industrial area searching for a place where I could buy some lengths of half inch galvanized piping Lady Joan. Then I saw a truck that was off loading hundreds of buck skulls with the horns still attached. There was a workshop with a open door and as I walked into the workshop a white lady accosted me and told me that I was not allowed in there.
She pointed me to another building and said that I could rather visit their showroom. And it was there in the showroom that I got all of the pictures.
Of course in and out in a flash, as I felt like I was in an animal war room looking at the casualties.
Blessings!
Some may enjoy stuffed heads hanging around, there is art in what is done, prefer to see the animals on foot running around :)
Same here Lady Joan as you know, but these might be all that future generations might see one day!
Blessings!
At the rate humans are going, we won't be around. Just thinking aloud...
As long as this continues we are certainly doomed as the human race Lady Joan. Maybe that's why they are anxiously searching for other planets that can support life. And God forbid that they find any such planets, as they will also be destroyed by mankind!
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Glad to see you are a healthy happy dolphin @papilloncharity. Congratulations 👍
Thank you for the kind words here and the good wishes.
It's been a long time, but it was worth all of the hard work.
Blessings also to the work that you guys do.
Yes, it is kind of spooky! Poor animals! What would we do if they decided there were too many humans?
Thank you and normally when humans become too many, a war is declared.
The crime is so bad here that more people are killed than in world war 2.
Blessings!
So sad. Man’s inhumanity to man! 😢
All normally driven by greed my friend!
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Even though these were all culled I think being in a place like that I would find very creepy,
and the poaching and slaughter of animals is something I find truly shocking and shameful
Have a good weekend
Creepy indeed to stare into all of those eyes with the thought that they were once healthy and proud animals in the wild.
But I too would rather want to end up like this than to be caged for life.
Blessings!
That’s a good point who would want to be caged for life
Do you follow the rugby?
I only follow it here and there my friend. The Boks lost today on the news.
I follow Tottenham Hotspur and they also lost today.(Lack of transfers, as they need new blood)
Blessings!
I do not follow the Soccer so much but i am a big Rugby fan so was in my element watching a few games today, INcluding South Africa Versus my Team New Zealand
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Ah, typical All Black aren't you Lol
They certainly ran rings around us and they surely deserved the win.
I think that if they continue playing like that, nothing can stop them from becoming world champs again.
Congrats my friend!
Blessings!
I think it was a close game actually New Zeland got a couple of lucky breaks which gave them the win
I did get selected for the schoolboy New Zealand team, but unfortunately i pulled all the muscles in my upper thigh in the same game so never got to play for them :(
I do hope they can getting a winning run going and win the cup for the fourth time :)
Sadly, greed is king. I have never understood poaching, if the were to try to get it legally, it wouldn't be allowed, so I would call that wrong, no?
When there are no more, then what?
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Love this i know its a job too i want a green parrot to put in the living room hahha
Eish! African for (Oh, no!) I could never sit around with a dead animal staring at me accusingly. We do enough damage to nature without being reminded about it.
Blessings!
It feels so weird to look at them like that.
It was indeed such a weird feeling in there Lady Joe.
Felt like a house of the dead.
Blessings!
It IS a house of all dead my friend! 😂
Totally agreed and I still not can understand why we walked in there.
But it is over now thankfully.
Enjoy your weekend my friend!
Hahaha... Same to you!