You’d think that the overwhelmingly negative response to the death of Cecil the lion would have opened hunter’s eyes to what they are doing, and have them realise that murdering animals for sport could even be considered wrong.
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But not hunttress Sabrina Corgatelli, a university accountant from Idaho.
An American hunter poses with the body of a giraffe she has just killed in a picture that has sparked more worldwide fury. She describes it in her post as “a feeling I will never forget”. Many of her photos have received hundreds of comments from people calling her names and condemning her hobby.
On the image of the Giraffe, where the animal appears to have been shot in the neck, Sabrina wrote: “Day #2 I got a fantastic old Giraffe”.
Sabrina Corgatelli, who is believed to come from Boise, Idaho, counted down the days on her Facebook profile to the “trip of a lifetime” to a private conservancy 20 kilometres from the country’s iconic Kruger National Park.
Tourists pay thousands of pounds to hunt animals in South African safaris including the Big Five – elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino Ms Corgatelli’s trophy kills during her South African trip with her partner Aaron Neilson include giraffe, kudu, impala, wildebeest and warthog. She told Daly that she heard of the outrage over Cecil’s death a day after she killed the giraffe.
Some of the abuse Miss Corgatelli has been receiving online.
According to the Daily Mail, the huntress posted a message Friday morning that read, “All you haters, This is for you!!”
Corgatelli has been posting the photos despite an overwhelming amount of protests and disparaging comments on her Facebook page.
Hunting giraffe is legal in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia – but fees can cost up to almost £9,600.
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Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer has shuttered his practice and gone into hiding since it was revealed that he killed Cecil, one of the oldest and most famous lions in Zimbabwe, without a permit.
