美女與野獸：德州少女獵殺非洲野生動物惹爭議

The teenaged Texas Tech cheerleader who created a social media firestorm with photos of the African big game she hunted has fired back at her online attackers.
一名德州理工大學的青年女學生、拉拉隊長在社交網絡上曬出自己獵殺的非洲大型野生動物的照片，引起了軒然大波，而她本人也與抨擊她的網友展開了論戰。

In a defense that invokes the safari-loving 26th U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt, Kendall Jones, 19, claims that killing rare rhinos and elephants actually helps to save them.
19歲的肯德爾·瓊斯爲了辯護自己的行爲還請出了酷愛狩獵的美國第26任總統泰迪·羅斯福。她聲稱，獵殺稀有的犀牛和獅子實際上是爲了更好的保護它們。

'This is a conservation effort to assure that they never do become extinct,' the teen from Texas posted to Facebook.
“這是一種保護野生動物的努力，是爲了確保它們永遠不會真的滅絕。”這位來自德克薩斯洲的青少年在Facebook上這樣寫道。

Facebook, of course, is where the controversy began. By Wednesday evening, 150,000 global animal lovers had signed a petition urging CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take down the photos in which Jones smiles proudly over the corpses of her prey she claims to be saving from extinction.
她與網友的論戰就是在Facebook上展開的。截止到週三晚上，已經有15萬來自全球各地的動物愛好者聯名簽署了一份請願書，請求Facebook的CEO馬克-扎克伯格從網上刪掉瓊斯上傳的照片，在這些照片上，瓊斯身邊是那些她揚言要保護並預防其滅絕的動物的屍體，而她臉上掛着得意的微笑。

'[Roosevelt] was a hunter too, right? He killed the same species that hunters now chase today under a mound of anti-hunting pressure.
“羅斯福也是一個獵手，不是嗎？他所獵殺的動物，和當今的獵手們頂着反對狩獵者的輿論壓力而進行獵殺的動物是同一種類。”

Jones' Facebook remains active, the photos that started the controversy have vanished.
瓊斯的Facebook賬號仍很活躍，但是那些惹起爭議的照片已經消失了。

Meanwhile, a Facebook account has now been created as part of Jones' defense called Support Kendall Jones.
同時，有人新註冊了一個名爲“支持肯德爾·瓊斯”的新賬號，這是瓊斯的辯護方式之一。

'Support this teenage girl who was attacked for posting pictures of her game that she legally harvested while in Africa,' reads the page.
該賬號的主頁上寫着：“請支持這個女孩，她在非洲獵殺動物是合法行爲，卻因上傳這些照片受到人們的攻擊。”

Jones claims photos of dead hippos, elephants, lions and other beasts on Facebook are a testament to her hunting skills and dedication to game preservation.
瓊斯聲稱，這些拍攝了河馬、大象、獅子等動物屍體的照片是對她狩獵技巧的見證，也是對她保護動物的決心的見證。

But critics are appalled by the teen and are calling Kendall sick and depraved for killing the rare animals and boasting about it online.
然而批判肯德爾的人表示對她的行爲感到震驚，並表示她獵殺這些珍稀動物，在網上進行炫耀的行爲非常變態。

'For the sake of all animals,' reads the petition against Jones as it implores animal lovers to sign, 'especially the animals in the African region... where hunters are going for fun just to kill an animal!'
“請爲動物們想想吧！”一位反對瓊斯的請願者這樣呼籲人們在請願書上簽字：“尤其請爲非洲的動物們想想！在那裏，獵手們爲了取樂，就可以殺死一隻動物！”