Show Frown on Lion Hunters Killing From Airplanes Hunting lions from airplanes la is distinctly out In all parts of Africa where the British writ rules The open veldt of the great African game country offers great possibilities for tor cross-country cross coursing In automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles and easy landing for airplanes Hence sportsmen have been rather overshooting lions This Is regarded as bad for several reasons It threatens threat threat- ens the sport With extinction but bot sportsmen are Joined In their anxIety anxiety ety by zoologists who do not wish to see another splendid wild animal added to the list of extinct c species s. s Conservationists and animal ecologists ecologists also see In the lion a useful regulator for the numbers of or antelope antelope ante ante- lope and other grazing animals which without some natural check might Increase too rapidly and overgraze overgraze overgraze over over- graze the range Only In thickly I populated districts where lions become become become be be- come troublesome stock killers and potential menaces to human life ICe Is hunting tolerated |