Lion Huntress Melissa Bachman Under Fire Over Gruesome Photo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 3 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div><h1 class="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; line-height: 49px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lion Huntress Melissa Bachman Under Fire Over Gruesome Photo</span></h1></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/">http://www.thewrap.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Lion Huntress Melissa Bachman Under Fire Over Gruesome Photo" src="http://www.thewrap.com//images/2013/11/melissa-bachman-618x400.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The backlash against the celebrity hunter’s South Africa kill intensifies with an internet petition</div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Critics of celebrity hunter Melissa Bachman might not quite be calling for her head and demanding that it be mounted on a wall — but it’s getting close.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The internet is roaring with protests against Bachman after a photo of her striking a smiling pose with a dead lion spread online.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See video:</strong> <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/katy-perry-roared-at-by-peta-over-animal-cameos-video/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Katy Perry ‘Roar’ed At by PETA Over Wild Animal Cameos</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A change.org online petition <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/the-government-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-deny-future-entry-to-melissa-bachman" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">slamming Bachman</a> has amassed more than 282,000 signatures, asking that she be banned from South Africa.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Melissa Bachman has made a career out of hunting wildlife, for pure sport,” the petition, started by Cape Town resident Elan Burman, reads. “She is an absolute contradiction to the culture of conservation, this country prides itself on. Her latest Facebook post features her with a lion she has just executed and murdered in our country.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also read:</strong> <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/beyonce-knowles-super-bowl-leather-has-peta-lather-76401" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyonce’s Super Bowl Leather Has PETA in a Lather</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, the Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stopmelissa" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stop Melissa Bachman</a> has collected more than 160,000 “likes.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Stop Trophy Hunting,” the group’s Facebook page implores. “Stop the murder of wildlife for the sport. Stop Melissa Bachman and people like her from pulling the trigger.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bachman, the host of “Winchester Deadly Passion, ” posted the photo on <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaBachman/status/396306051298902017/photo/1" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">her Twitter account</a>Nov. 1, writing, ‘An incredible day hunting in South Africa! Stalked inside 60-yards on this beautiful male lion…what a hunt!”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also read:</strong> <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/hobbit-animal-deaths-peta-calls-new-zealand-government-investigate-66416" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Hobbit’ Animal Deaths: PETA Calls on New Zealand Government to Investigate</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The kill took place  during a guided hunt sponsored by the Maroi Conservancy, which defended its hunts as “ethical” in a post on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/maroi.conservancy/posts/550430031706577" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the organization’s Facebook page</a> on Saturday.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are not apologizing for facilitating the hunt. As for all the negative commentary towards us, please consider how much you have contributed to conservation in the past 5 years,” the post reads. “If you are not a game farmer and struggling with dying starving animals, poaching and no fences in place to protect your animals and crop, please refrain from making negative derogatory comments.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Maroi, Bachman had a lion on her “wish list” for the hunt. Though lions don’t naturally reside on Mario, the conservancy said that it contacted an outfitter to elsewhere and facilitated the lion hunt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maroi said that it “did not benefit financially” from the hunt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bachman has felt the sting of internet protest before. Last year, the National Geographic Channel<a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/natgeo-television-national-geographic-stop-the-melissa-bachman-show-from-broadcasting" style="border: 0px; color: #fa4b2a; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">pulled the huntress</a> from its series “Ultimate Survival Alaska” after an anti-Bachman petition was filed online.</div></div></div>

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