Show frown on lion hunters killing from airplanes hunting lions from airplanes 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 cross country coursing in automo biles and easy landing for airplanes hence sportsmen have been rather overshooting lions this Is regarded as bad for several reasons it threatens the sport with extinction but sportsmen are joined in their anxiety by zoologists who do not wish to see another splendid wild animal added to the list of extinct species and animal decolo elsts also see in the lion a useful regulator for the numbers of antelope and other grazing animals which without some natural check might increase too rapidly and over graze the range only in thickly populated districts where along llong become troublesome stock killers and potential menaces to human life Is hunting tolerated |