Cheerleader/hunter wanted off Facebook and out of Africa

Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader from Texas, USA who, when she is not preparing any synchronized dancing scheme she is out hunting big game in Africa.

The images she posted onto her Facebook page enraged hundreds of thousands of people who started two petitions, one to take Kendall down from Facebook and one to prohibit her from ever aiming a gun at another African animal again.

Most of the photos portray Kendall Jones putting on a large smile while holding a gun over the dead body of whichever animal she just shot and killed.

She also described her hunting adventures, which began sometime around the age of 9. But then she was ‘just too small to hold the guns’. At 13 she makes her first kill: ‘the first animal I ever shot was a White Rhino with a .416 Remington!!’ Next came an elephant, ‘a charging Cape buffalo and a huge maned lion’ and a leopard.

The cheerleader admitted that she did expect at repercussion after she posted the photos but was shocked by the severity of it, claiming that she even received several death threats. She defends her hunting and Facebook sharing habits by saying that hunters care about species conservation more than most people. She gives several examples, one in which leopards had killed some 107 cattle in Zimbabwe and ‘instead of the villagers killing the leopards to prevent livestock damage, permits are sold to hunters to do this for them.’

Facebook representatives stated that they did remove some of the content on Kendall’s page, including images that promote ‘poaching of endangered species, the sale of animals for organized fight, or content that includes extreme acts of animal abuse.’