You may remember Cecil the Lion. He was killed by an American dentist from Minnesota, Walter Palmer, with an arrow but the arrow failed to kill him and he was ultimately killed by someone else who helped organise the trophy … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
The Trump administration has declared its credentials in allowing, through the US Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, the importation of the skin, skull and horns of a rare black rhino that an American trophy hunter shot at a cost of … Continue reading →
Bloodlions.org in their infographic sum up the complete exploitation of lions from controlled birth (i.e. they are bred) to death by shooting in South Africa. It is an horrendous example of how humankind (the male of the species) has allowed … Continue reading →
Words are not needed to express my disgust at this couple of trophy hunters. They just don’t care. There is a complete lack of sensitivity towards the feelings of animals and conservation. Super self-indulgent, arrogant humans at their worst. The … Continue reading →
A French couple, Mr and Mrs Alboud, have been forced to sell their supermarket franchise in France after they posed with dead trophy animals on an African safari. As a consequence, they faced death threats online from animal rights activists … Continue reading →
There is anger that the NEC will play host to several trophy hunting tour businesses at the forthcoming Great British Shooting Show. The NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham is a large exhibition centre which hosts, for example Crufts, the … Continue reading →
This feeble, uncommitted UK government, bogged down and paralysed as it is by Brexit, is dithering hopelessly over a decision to ban the importation of hunting trophies despite a huge rise of such imports into the UK by British big-game … Continue reading →
