Lions are raised in cages and tamed, only to be released when tourists arrive who can easily kill them to take a selfie
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himLegelela Safaris, one of the South African companies offering hunting packages for tourists, he shared on his Facebook wall the photo of two Canadian tourists, Darren and Carolyn Carter, behind a dead lion.
The couple share a romantic kiss on their knees behind the corpse of a large lion in the foreground. The two Canadians were immortalized with theirs trophy, after having it cruelly killed for fun.
The company comments on the image with: “I work hard under the hot Kalahari sun… well done. A scary lion ".
I leoni are bred in captivity to be easily hunted: the animals are indeed kept in cages and domesticated, only to be released when the tourists arrive. So, it is not difficult to kill them, for the sole purpose of taking photographs e selfie with the animal's corpse as a trophy.
The image sparked a great controversy and it was covered with insults which the directors promptly canceled.
Deleting the comments was not enough and the tour operator was forced to first delete the photo much discussed and then acdelete your Facebook page.
La storm that hit the Legelela safaris it also hit the company's website, which is unreachable.
She wasn't even spared the protagonist couple of the photo: in a few hours the two Canadian spouses have closed their social accounts issued offline the site of their embalming business.
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Tatiana Maselli
