African leaders and conservationists have accused the UK of endangering animals by trying to ban the import of big game trophies. Nations that are home to most of the big game species on the continent say they need the profits from blood sports to pay for conservation projects. They expressed exasperation at not being consulted […]
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Cecil the Lion’s Brothers in Danger of Being Trophy Hunted
Cecil the lion’s two brothers, Humba and Netsai, are now at risk of being trophy hunted after they were exiled from their pride. Cecil was a beloved African lion who rose to fame in 2015 after he was killed by an American trophy hunter named Walter Palmer. The lion’s brothers, Humba and Netsai, took over […]

British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home
Britons who kill endangered animals abroad for fun will not be able to bring their hunting trophies home, the government has announced. The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears. It comes two years after the government pledged to introduce […]

Hunter Kills Beloved Lion, Mopani, Outside the Same Park Where Walter Palmer Gunned Down Cecil
The world all but stopped spinning in July 2015 when news broke that Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, had gunned down a beloved lion named Cecil after reportedly paying $50,000 to partake in a hunting expedition to Zimbabwe. The killing ignited international outrage, and caring souls took to Twitter and beyond to demand that Palmer’s […]

He made a fortune supplying life-saving kit to the NHS then spent thousands ‘trophy hunting’ wildlife like this… and Andrew Broggio is just one of an elite club who go on luxury killing holidays.
Stalking through the savannah, Andrew Broggio was on the trail of a Cape buffalo — one of the ‘Big Five’ African game alongside lion, elephant, rhino and leopard. His team, including a driver and a tracker looking for footprints and droppings, had set off at 7am, when it was still cool enough to spend hours […]

Petition: Don’t Allow Trophy Hunter to Bring Home Body of Endangered Sheep
Cecil the lion became a household name after Minnesota dentist and trophy hunter, Walter Palmer, murdered Cecil in 2015. The news caused international outrage as Cecil was a beloved animal that lured from the protection of the Hwange National Park and then killed. Palmer left Cecil suffering for 12 hours from arrow wounds before authorities […]

Dentist Walter Palmer who killed Cecil the Lion ‘is spotted hunting sheep in Mongolia’ five years after he slaughtered the famous predator with a bow in Zimbabwe
The American dentist who sparked global outrage when he killed an endangered black-maned lion in 2015 has been sighted hunting again. Walter Palmer, 60, from Minnesota, is reported to have made his return to the blood sport by travelling to Mongolia to slaughter the Altai argali – the largest wild sheep in the world. In […]

Trophy hunter safaris let children slaughter wild animals in sick ‘kids go free’ deals
Bloodthirsty parents are paying for kids as young as four to slaughter exotic animals in Africa – as safari bosses sink to new depths with depraved “U10s go free” trophy hunting packages. One shocking picture shows a bloodstained schoolboy grinning as he stands over the antelope he slaughtered just moments before with a military-grade sniper […]