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    Spain's king ousted as WWF honorary president

    MADRID (AP) — The World Wildlife Fund's branch in Spain says it has ousted King Juan Carlos as its honorary president — a title he'd held since 1968 — because the monarch's recent elephant hunting safari was incompatible with the group's goal of conserving endangered species.

    The fund said in a statement that "although such hunting is legal and regulated" it had "received many expressions of distress from its members and society in general." It says members voted in a meeting in Madrid on Saturday to "to get rid of the honorary President."

    News of the king's April elephant hunting trip in Botswana upset many Spaniards who considered it an opulent extravagance at a time of economic distress in the country.

    The Royal Palace declined immediate comment on the WWF announcement.

     

    12 comments

    • Sami  •  1 day 12 hrs ago
      He's a King then I'm the "Duke of Earl"!
    • Bamboo  •  2 days 11 hrs ago
      When I saw the headline, I though they were talking about the World Wrestling Federation! And I thought, the King of Spain is honorary president of the WWF? How strange!
    • Ralph Turchiano  •  San Luis Obispo, California  •  2 days 10 hrs ago
      No one ever said, you had to be bright, nor compassionate to be a King... Unless it was his intent to annoy the people, and kick the WWF in the groin...
    • homo stupidius  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      Juan Carlos to Putin: see, you can't be King and President at the same time...
    • Poor American  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      If Juan Carlos want's to hunt elephants, he should go to New Jersey, they have a lead elephant there that is trying to be a rogue. Newt Gingrich is still on the loose. NOW those comments were made by an adult acting like a 10 year old kid.
      • kxbpy 2 days 11 hrs ago
        Acting like or with the intelligence of?
    • Willow™  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      Awesome, the King loves Wrassling'!!!
    • ScottG  •  Beaverton, Oregon  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      They have wrestling over there?
    • Widget  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      To the comment disrespecting the first lady:

      I hope you're not an American because if you are, no matter what political sides you take you should respect your commander and chief and wife as such.. Your comment is so unamerican.. I feel sorry for your ignorance and hate.. It must be hard to be you. Your ignorance is so big you probably did not even finished your public high school and are unemployed.
      • kxbpy 2 days 11 hrs ago
        Respect has to be earned - there are no lordlings etc here.
      • Youreretorted 2 days 11 hrs ago
        Poor American, if someone doesn't get their news from the MSM or the Internet, where should they get it from? Their uncle?
      • Bamboo 2 days 11 hrs ago
        No Widget, we don't have to respect anybody just because of their position. This is America and respect has to be earned. I was critical of Bush and now I am critical of Obama. Both are incompetent and bought and paid for politicians that let the bankers run this country into the ditch. They are both dumb as stumps. I can't be critical enough considering what they have done. To paraphrase one comment I read, both Bush and Obama should be seen in public only wearing tar and feathers.
    • Royal Ron  •  2 days 13 hrs ago
      What a bunch of poo ! Now the new honorary so so will be some international corrupted banker or dictator from some third world country. Possible Dickie Cheney who hunts human or one the Bush's father or son !
      • Royal Ron 2 days 3 hrs ago
        Tom Clayton Illinois A vocal tyke like you @ BIOYFA!
      • dawg 2 days 12 hrs ago
        You get no credibility, idiot liberal, with a name like 'royal ron', and using words like 'poo'. (Poo??). lol
      • RICK 2 days 12 hrs ago
        peasant"s
    • kxbpy  •  2 days 11 hrs ago
      So the wiffies got their knickers in a knot!

      The king has better things to do with his time anyway.
    • Jupiter  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      Obama's big fat wife Sapphire better stay out of range of that guy..
      • Average Joe 2 days 10 hrs ago
        Aren't you glad this is a 'free' country?

        Who knows? One day maybe all the dissident, decrying and threatening
        comments made on the Internet about the American Leadership will be garnered
        into a 'subversives' list and will bring about the end your family tree (remember,
        what goes on the Internet, STAYS on the Internet)

        Happens right now in China, and who knows where else?
    • Cogito Ergo Sum  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      You WWF hypocrits! This guy has been killing wild animals around the world for decades, but you didn't mind because his donations bought your silence. Suddenly now you have become sensitive? Shame on you.
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