South Africa
Wildlife charity pleads for end to canned and trophy hunting─── 06:25 Tue, 25 Jun 2019
The international wildlife charity Born Free yesterday pleaded with the public to take action after shocking statistics revealed that almost 300 000 trophies from threatened wild animals were exported around the world over the past decade.
This comes a day before the fourth anniversary of Cecil the lion's death after he was wounded with a bow and arrow by American dentist and trophy hunter Walter Palmer, and only killed several hours later.
Trophy and canned hunting involve killing animals for pleasure, often times in a closed space, in order to display part or all of their bodies as trophies.
While trophy hunters target free-living wild animals, canned hunters target captive-bred animals, specifically lions and other predators in South Africa, in a confined area from which they cannot escape.
Among the trophies exported in the last 10 years, were nearly 40,000 trophy items from African elephants, over 8,000 from leopards, and 14,000 from African lions.
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