Dozens of British ‘big game’ trophy hunters are to be named and shamed.
One hundred hunters from the UK are to be featured in a new book by Eduardo Goncalves, of the Campaign To Ban Trophy Hunting.
Between them they have killed more than 2,000 animals, including lions, elephants rhinos, giraffes, leopards and antelope – with one retired businessman shooting more than 650.
Hunters pay safari firms thousands to get the chance to bag endangered animals.
One boasted: ‘It’s like mainlining on heroin.’
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Between them they have killed more than 2,000 animals, including lions, elephants rhinos, giraffes, leopards and antelope – with one retired businessman shooting more than 650.
Another took his son for his ninth birthday, saying: ‘He took an impala trophy, a real beaut.’
The book, Saving Sally: Trophy Hunters’ Secrets And Lies, will be released ahead of a Commons vote on March 17 to ban souvenirs like lion heads.
Big-game hunting was called ‘barbaric’ by former PM Boris Johnson but Government has yet to ban the trade in trophies.
