A Michael Broad Blog
Not long ago the Conservative UK government promised to ban the importation of hunting trophies. The promise was in part a response to the general population’s desire to do this and I suspect Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson’s wife had a say in the matter. But now, in a move which will further deteriorate the …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Animal advocates are lucky to have a man like Eduardo Gonçalves who is fighting against trophy and sport hunting intelligently and I hope devastatingly well. In his book Trophy Hunters Exposed: Inside the Big Game Industry he exposes the brutal callousness of trophy hunters and the untold amounts of agony that …
The Queen is part of the posh country set. She is one of ‘them’; the elite. The hunting and fishing type who see animals as something to use and in respect of wild animals to abuse. She is old-fashioned in this way, unenlightened. The connection of the Royal family with shooting wild animals for …
The British public have made their feelings known with respect to trophy hunting in a YouGov poll commissioned by Humane Society International/UK and the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting. Only 14% of the respondents in the survey said that a ban should only apply to threatened or endangered species and a mere 2% said …
USA – opinion/news: The Times reports that hunting is in long-term decline across the United States. My initial response is happiness. It appears that there has been a shift in recreation habits together with societal attitudes to killing animals. The Times journalist reports that this is hurting conservation. I argue that if wildlife conservation …
This is an opinion article. I am delighted to see that fans of the popular television show Love Island are disgusted that one of the contestants, Ollie Williams, helps run a trophy hunting agency in Cornwall, UK, called Cornish Sporting Agency. He organises hunts in South Africa and other countries for blood-thirsty, rich and …
Scientists are meant to be in the enviable position of receiving respect because they are seen as being intelligent, unbiased and objective. This is not always the case as is highlighted by this story. On the African continent, Western sport hunters justify their behaviour by saying that it benefits wildlife conservation. The Campaign to …
United States: a hunter has died after he was attacked by a deer that he had shot in woods. Officials reported that Thomas Alexander, 66, had approached the deer after shooting it in Yellville, Arkansas, believing it to be dead. He was suddenly attacked by the deer who stabbed him with their antlers. Alexander …
