GoDaddy CEO Elephant Hunt Regrettable

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Ellijay, Georgia, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 1, 2011 --

Elljay, GA - April 1, 2011: The Wildlife Sanctuary, which hosts it website www.thewildlifesanctuary.com on GoDaddy servers, is disgusted by the personal elephant hunt conducted by GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons. The population of African elephants is clearly imperiled, and even a moment of search engine research should have convinced Mr. Parsons that shooting an elephant due to their inconvenient behavior was entirely inappropriate. The decimation of elephant herds, where older adults are usually the "trophies" culled, leave elephant herds with younger, less experienced animals who may not know where to go and how to survive when food and water are scarce.

Mr. Parsons's reason, to help out subsistence farmers, rings hollow. There are starving populations of people all across the world, and killing an elephant now and then will have no effect in tipping this balance. This hunt was for no other reason than the personal thrill of someone who has gained significant wealth and the freedom to make exceptionally bad choices, regardless of how it has been explained.

While The Wildlife Sanctuary does not rescue, rehab and release African elephants, as it does indigenous U.S. wildlife, we continue to see humans killing animals for no good reason, frequently leading to their very extinction because they have become inconvenient in some way. These actions are often justified by claiming that the animal was endangering man, when, in truth, man has encroached on the animals' habitat, destroy their living areas and food sources, and set up an inevitable confrontation with humans.

While The Wildlife Sanctuary was satisfied with hosting its web site on GoDaddy servers, and recognizing that Mr. Parsons's actions do not represent the attitudes of the employees of GoDaddy, the sanctuary will investigate moving its web site to another service provider if Mr. Parsons's actions do not stop, and a substantial form of restitution is not made to the restoration of elephants and their natural habitat.

"Our place on this earth is not to kill every living thing that becomes inconvenient to our uncontrolled human expansion simply because we can," said Mr. Tim Grady, Executive Director of The Wildlife Sanctuary. "Our place is to preserve and protect every living species, and to grow in harmony with them. If we are not able to do that, we are not worthy of preservation ourselves," he said.

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