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Go Daddy CEO playing Great White Hunter

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Go Daddy, the well-known domain registrar and hosting company, has a rather controversial CEO, Bob Parsons. He’s already disliked by a lot of people for using demeaning ads for his company and now he’s shown just the sort of character he is by indulging in the ancient Great White Hunter sport of killing elephants.

Elephants trampling crops is a huge problem for a lot of outlying settlements in Africa. African elephants are generally more aggressive and territorial than their Asian cousins and when they come into conflict with humans, they can act in ways which destroy livelihoods and put people at risk. Unfortunately, the reason why they are coming into conflict with humans is because we’re encroaching on their territory, not the other way round.

Parsons is using this issue as the spin on his activities. He claims that this is a humanitarian act, improving the lives of villagers who are facing terrible hardship. However, it’s a classic case of human imperialism weighing an animal life above human economic distress and when it comes to endangered animals, as is the case with African elephants, it’s simply not acceptable. If he truly wanted to help, flying all the way from the US to Zimbabwe to point a shotgun at an animal is not the way. There are alternatives to killing elephants who encroach on human habitations and the groups managing such projects are crying out for the resources someone like Parsons could offer them.

Unfortunately, I think it unlikely that Parsons will do anything as useful as helping with elephant fencing since it’s just not as fun as shooting a poor defenceless animal. Reports that he has shot leopards (there’s a truly horrible video here) show that whatever spin he’s putting on it, he’s flying to Africa to kill exotic animals for the fun of it and that’s despicable.

I’m happy to say that I’m not a GoDaddy customer for all sorts of reasons, but if you’re reading this and you’re spending money with him, I implore you to find an alternative. The only way we’ll be able to make it clear that acting like this is unacceptable is by hurting such people in their all too fat wallets.

Read more here:

Mashable.com – Go Daddy CEO tries to explain elephant killing “safari”
GreenAnswers – Chilli fencing allows farmers and elephants to work together in Africa
Safe the Elephants – Elephant Geofencing
Feministe – Sexist Superbowl Ads
Life Imitating Design – Go Daddy sexist commercials don’t impress men or women

Photograph by Parsonsrep.

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