via Glenn McGrath says he ‘deeply regrets’ involvement in hunting trip to Zimbabwe – Telegraph 22 February 2015
Glenn McGrath, the great Australian fast bowler, has said that he deeply regrets being involved in a hunting safari in Zimbabwe that saw him pictured with dead animals.
McGrath was photographed posing with the dead bodies of buffalo and hyenas as well as two elephant tusks on a 2008 trip.
McGrath lost his first wife, Jane, to breast cancer in 2008 and has subsequently gained universal acclaim for his charity work against breast cancer.
He said: “It was an extremely difficult time in my life and looking back I deeply regret being involved.”
He did stress that the hunting safari: “was licensed and legal but in hindsight highly inappropriate”.
McGrath has felt the wrath of social media after posing with the trophies.
Another picture which surfaced on Twitter shows McGrath with his team-mate Brett Lee posing with another dead animal:
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Oh for goodness sake. The hunting in Zimbabwe us controlled. You weren’t poaching. You weren’t shooting illegally. You paid good money to the Zimbabwe Government to shoot animals that helps with the culling exercises that are necessary for the wellbeing of not only the wildlife of Zimvabwe, but the preservation of the ecology of the country. Get over it.
Well said Doris. It is a fact that hunting and hunters provide over 80% of the finances that go into conservation of wildlife in the world and hunting operators provide protection for wildlife with scout teams to hunt down poachers.
It is sad that people like McGrath and Lee cannot stand up like men and tell the world that they had a great time and will do it again.
Uuuugh!
80% of the finances into conservation of wildlife? Reverend really? Show us the cited figures. Mr McGrath and all his hunting chorts love to bany about the propaganda of what hunting does for conservation, they load the figures, talk about feeding starving villagers (how paternalistic is that?). Last time I looked killing an animal doesn’t conserve him or her – just means they are dead. And since when is the Zimbabwe Wildlife and & Parks so well run that the funds go where they are supposed to go? If you read the 2013 independant report by Economists at Large they are telling avery different story to your assertions… go to this pdf titled online as ‘Ecolarge-2013-200m-question.pdf’ or google ’The $200 Million Dollar Question: How much does trophy hunting really contribute to African Economies’. Then come back and reassert that 80% of conservation money comes from trophy hunting if you find it to be a fact.
Hurting is well controlled in zimbabwe …true and a fact…were the money goes is another matter but ask the private game hunters in zimbabwe abt this and 75% of them are white zimbabweans.its unfortunate if the money does not go were its meant to thats the bad side of it but really can someone prove that its not controlled before judgement is made on people who do hunting lawfully.zimbabwe has seen thousands of animals poached by criminal gangs from zambia sponsored by criminal chinise gangs and no word is said abt that yet proper and controlled game hunting is criticised left right and centre.