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Botswana's tongue-in-cheek threat to send 20,000 elephants to Germany was a response to the German government for seeking a ban on the import of hunting trophies. But it brings up something important: Elephants are tricky neighbors and Botswana is home to 130,000 of them, the largest elephant population in Africa. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Amy Dickman, a professor of
Here we go again. Having failed last year to legislate a ban on the import of hunting trophies, UK MPs are trying to ram through a similar bill.
A ban on importing hunting trophies to the UK has moved a step closer to becoming law with a vote by MPs. Body parts of elephants, bears, lions, hippos and zebras are among those currently allowed to be brought back from hunting trips. This is the third attempt to pass a new law to tackle…
A senior Labour backbencher is reviving a Private Member's Bill which, if passed by Parliament, would stop sick trophy hunters bringing their "prizes" back to Britain
One of the themes of the Custodians of Professional Hunting and Conservation annual conference, held last month near the riverside Free State town of Parys, was conservation and messaging. As I have noted before, debates around hunting are often misleadingly portrayed — usually by animal welfar...