The Baylor School, a private college prep school in Tennessee, has removed an African safari from its upcoming fundraising auction after an online petition—launched by Born Free USA’s Megan Knauss, a Baylor alum—drew more than 85,000 signatures. In a magazine sent by Baylor to parents and alumni, a blurb promised that the winning bidder of the seven-day hunting trip for two in South Africa’s North West province “will have a chance to hunt animals big and small, including lions, elephants and buffalo, on over 50,000 acres of privately owned, unfenced, and unspoiled land.” Knauss explains, “Really, for me, the issue isn’t so much that the hunt would include elephants and lions. It’s hunting African wild animals in general. There’s nothing sporting about slaughtering animals with high-powered rifles.”
Born Free USA’s Megan Knauss Successfully Pressures School to Cancel Hunting Trip
in Animal News on February 13, 2015