Show frown on lion hunters killing from airplanes hunting lions from airplanes Is distinctly out in all parts of africa where tile the british writ rules the open veldt of the great african paine game country offers great possibilities for cross country coursing in automobiles and nd easy landing for airplanes hence sportsmen sport nien 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 conservationists and animal ecologists also see in III the lion a useful regulator tor for the numbers of antelope and other grazing animals which without sonic some natural check might increase too rapidly and overgraze the range only in thickly populated populate districts where lions become troublesome stock killers and potential menaces to human life is hunting tolerated |