An American hunter who was caught in a Twitter storm in 2018 for killing a rare black giraffe in South Africa has appeared on television for the first time since the incident and said she is “proud to hunt”.
Tess Talley was outed on a Twitter account called AfricaDigest when it posted a the photo of her celebrating alongside her kill. In the tweet, Talley was called a “white American savage”, but she told CBS This Morning that she is undeterred and is still hunting.
“It’s a hobby, it’s something that I love to do,” Talley said in the interview. “I am proud to hunt and I am proud of that giraffe.”
Although she enjoys hunting she says that the killing of the giraffe, which evidently gave her a great deal of pleasure, was for “conservation purposes”.
“We are preserving the wildlife,” Talley said. “We are managing herds, we’re managing numbers of wildlife.”
She now has multiple pillows, and a gun case, covered in the hide of that giraffe.
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