Disintegration Leopard Sold up to £ 116,000 online, Independent Can disclose-while a long-promised Britain ban on trophy hunt imports is stalled.
Big-Game tour companies are openly promoting online holiday package or auction to win the rights to kill animals in Africa, whose number is in a decline in the entire continent.
Some companies that have dozens Hunt Travel on sale, provide “extra” to rich hunters, including the opportunity to shoot elephants, Lions And cheetah.
A website has a digit system, under which gunmen can be awarded silver, gold, platinum or diamond membership as they give prizes for the award. Hunt More animals and rare species.
A new report by ban for campaign Trophy hunting Used “disturbing” strategy reveals, such as batting Leopard To intentionally start fire with living animals or to hide large cats.
In one case, a filmmaker remembered by looking at a live duel – or antelope – a wire tied to a tree to woo a leopard, which was then shot illegally at night, stated in the International leopard report. It was not known who was responsible.
The report also shows that 709 leopard trophies – skins, skulls, bones and full bodies – were exported from Africa in 2023. Four of them were brought to the UK.
Governments have repeatedly promised to ban the import of hunting trophies to discourage Britain from the shooting safari shooting foreigners.
Both conservative and labor election manifesto include pledge to ban ban, and in a government public consultation in 2020, 84 percent of respondents supported the ban on import and export.
However, both Toris and Labor have been accused of dying since then. In 2022, Boris Johnson’s government dropped animals abroadWhich would have been brought into a ban.
Last year, 11 comrades at Lord’s Hunting Trophy (Import Prohibition) Bill blockedWritten by the government and passed by MPs. A Bill of a private member of the same name by MP John Spellor Later ran out of time.
Now, another private member’s bill by conservative David Reid is for another reading next month. It is understood that the government will then say whether it supports it.
Campaign to ban trophy hunting supported by television stars Jona Lumle And Chris PaqamCalling the government to give a priority.
The leopard is protected under international law and classified by the International Union as weakened by the conservation of nature (IUCN), with some sub -species faced more threats.
In 2016, scientists stated that the big cat had disappeared from 75 percent of its historic housing, but since then, the population number is difficult to determine.
The report states that the number may fall to 90 percent in 50 years, about 50,000.
Safari Club International, a club that supports legal hunting offers prizes for shooting “African Big Fives” – elephants, lions, leopards, rhinoceros and buffello.
Steven Chancellor, is a top donor for US President Donald Trump One of the world’s most vigorous huntersAccording to the records of hunting 2015 and 2016 from Safari Club International – the world’s largest trophy -shikar group.
Mr. Chancellor About 500 killedIncluding at least 18 LionsSix elephants, two rhinoceros and 13 leopards. One of them was the biggest record ever. In 2018, he allegedly stated that illegal poaching was endangered by African wildlife, not a victim.
“Eunuchs are killing 30,000 elephants and 1,000 rhinoceros every year,” Columbus dispatch InformedAnd A blogger quoted him In 2012, saying that the victim was saving the elderly male lions from disease, starvation or being eaten by Hina.
According to the campaign to ban the new study of trophy Hunting, the US was the largest importer of the leopard trophy last year, recorded 356, followed by South Africa and Hungary, followed by South Africa and Hungary.
A commercial company is being introduced by a commercial company for $ 156,300 (£ 116,476), for 28 days in Tanzania, it may include the possibility of elephants, lions, baffello, hippos, antelope, guinefall, duck and giz.
Eduardo Gonclaves, the founder of the campaign to ban trophy hunting, said: “Leopards are shy, intelligent and iconic animals that are now on the verge, yet they are being massacred to brag the rights. It is not protection, it is barbaric.
“Britain must show leadership. Nine out of ten voters want a ban. The government has drafted a bill. The bill was unanimously passed in Commons before the election.
“Why not defrain [the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs] Bring it back as a government bill? Labor pledged an aims to ban hunting trophies, but when would not be called.
“This is the 10th anniversary Cecil lion murdered This year. The government should prioritize it instead of sitting on its hands. ,
A defra spokesperson said: “The government was selected on the mandate to ban the import of hunting trophies – that’s what we will do.”