The European empire was built upon crimes against nature and spirit of Indian, Australian, African and American natives and wild animals of those lands. Did humans ever care to question those crimes?
East India Company mercenaries shooting down a native tribe in forests of North East India.
@AbhijitChavda British glorifying their crimes in 1889 against native tribes of Northern India calling it "the expedition for the punishment of Lushai Hill tribes of Northern India"
Transporting Elephants from Calcutta to rest of the world hence the smuggling and crimes against animals were being glorified in their media in 1800 and 1900. Today westerns are presenting themselves differently.
Europeans did genocide of tigers and other wild animals of India
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Thread: British Colonial Rule in India and War Against Wild Animals
Today most confined/enslaved elephants are in the West."The largest captive population is in North America, which has an estimated 370 Asian and 350 African elephants. About 380 Asians and 190 Africans are known to exist in Europe"
Today most confined/enslaved elephants are in the West."The largest captive population is in North America, which has an estimated 370 Asian and 350 African elephants. About 380 Asians and 190 Africans are known to exist in Europe"
Wild animals were mass murdered, smuggled across the planet, remaining were pushed into small pockets regarded as reserves. I have compiled a data, as much I could, of elephants of Asia and Africa who were smuggled around the globe after the colonization by europeans
"Chunee" The Indian male elephant Chunee smuggled by East India Company to London in 1811. His keeper tried to feed him poison, but Chunee refused to eat it. Soldiers were summoned from Somerset House to shoot Chunee with their muskets.