Ivan Carter, well known for his conservation efforts to provide new habitats for animal wildlife in Africa, have been found to have taken brazen actions in the past, contradictory to his public persona.
The video of Carter enjoying a bloody shooting spree on elephants, lions and jibing about the merits of a shooter’s life have been unearthed by the media, inciting anger on Sunday. The activist was famous for providing the foundation for the historically memorable recovery projects relocating big cats in Mozambique.
In the video leading up to the allegation, Carter is seen with his double-shot rifle at the Zambezi Valley, located in the southern part of the continent.
He boasts that his Heym gun, a German manufactured artifice, is so strong that it can secure a kill within a flash. The activist is then seeing leading the camera to a lion group that the hunting party have severely hurt in the previous hour. He goes on to expostulate: ‘My first shot went right in just underneath his chin.
It was enough to turn him.’ The injured lion is then heard growling and, as it prepares to pounce, is shot again ‘just on the cheekbone’. The 50 year old supposedly conservationist then goes on to say ‘without a double gun, I would have been busy reloading as he took off and got on top of me’.
He is also captured in the footage with a ‘brilliant second shot in the earhole’ at an elephant.
Yet quotes that have been credited to Mr Carter on his conservation website say: ‘I have been truly shocked to find how precarious the future of our wildlife is.
’ ‘Can Carter’s quest to save Africa succeed?’, while his TV show Carter’s War, which is broadcast on the Outdoor Channel as of now, documents his battle to save his ‘dying’ homeland of Zimbabwe, where he was originally born and raised.
Mr Carter, who is primarily based in South Africa, was part of US President Donald Trump’s International Wildlife Conservation Council in 2018.
The said council, currently disbanded, aimed to make it bureaucratically and legally easier for hunters to bring in endangered species or their maimed body parts into the US borders, and wanted to promote hunting as a means of conservation, helping the proceeds from the authorized hunts to go to more needy projects.
This particular idea have been refuted countless times by most animal activists. All of these claims are recorded in an upcoming book calledTrophy Hunters Exposed: Inside The Big Game Industry.
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