Wildlife Hunter About 1,800 giraffe body parts “trophies” were taken home in a year – in which it is revealed to join more than 100 animals, especially in captivity.
The whole skins, bones, skulls, legs and tails were all popular with rich hunters who paid to shoot Giraffe – But one also tried to smuggle the genitalia from the house from an animal, which he shot.
Customs officials in the United States discovered genitalia in a passenger belongings Africa,
Statistics from the Convention on International Trade in endangered species (CIITES) show that 1,791 giraffe trophy was exported worldwide in 2023, the most recent data.
Some 120 animals were recorded in the database as a captive-braid, killed by a foreign hunter.
British Hunters imported 21 giraffe trophies in the UK that year, but other European countries were also responsible for some imports including Austria, Germany and France. The American hunter imported 1,072 (60 percent) of the global clan.
For Ban on trophy imports in UK Stop Toryse under Boris Johnson Proposed proposal for banAnd Labor accused the government of being “complicated” In trophy hunting when conservative peers blocked such a plan.
The campaigners are calling from the UK government to ban the prolonged promise of labor for banning the imports of hunting trophies-a pledge in the Finger Manifesto.
Giraffes have been classified by the International Union by the preservation of nature (IUCN) red list, the global system of species status. It is estimated that there are about 68,000 giraffes left in the world.
The species is excluded from three to one Elephants In Africa – who are falling their own population – still have low security, conservationists say, call for action to close legal flaws.
“The giraffe has faced a decline of nearly 40 percent in the number of three generations,” said Professor Fred Berkovic, Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor of a leading giraffe expert university.
“If the decline continues at the current rate, they will become extinct before a long time.”
British-owned trophy-shikar companies are offering giraffe-shooting “holidays” online. More than 200 giraffe is marketing shooting, with “special offers” starts at £ 1,500.
A site worldwide offering wildlife shooting trips in Botswana and Zimbabwe charges a $ 1,800 (£ 1,336) to hunt giraffe on its wealth.
Prof. Berkovich, who has written a giraffe protection review for IUCN, has rejected the industry that the trophy-shikar promotes local economies.
“If the trophy-shikar benefits the local economy and enhances the socio-economic status of people in the hunting areas, then those areas will have a higher standard of living than people in areas where hunting is forbidden. However, there is no evidence to suggest that this is the case,” he said.
He called the UK to act. “The trophy-shikar of giraffes still declines in the endangered population. If the UK really wants to support protection, it will have to close its boundaries for these trophies once and for all.”
Ban on a private member’s bill The ban on trophy-shikar imports is due to a second reading in the Commons on July 11, and it is understandable that the government will then determine its position, but the bills of private members rarely become laws without government support.
A spokesman of the department for environment, food and rural affairs said: “The government was selected on a mandate to ban the import of hunting trophies – that’s what we will do.”