Death Of Cecil The Lion Exposes More Parks Where Trophy Hunters Pay In Thousands To Kill ‘Big’ Animals

 

Hundreds of British hunters are fuelling a grisly industry of trophy animal killing, it was revealed yesterday. The trophy hunters travel the world on shooting safaris, which can cost £30,000 per person, to hunt species including lions, leopards and cheetahs.

Outrage over the American dentist who paid to shoot Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe has thrown a spotlight on the legal trophy hunting industry in countries including South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. Several British firms offer the trips and advertise price lists of animals to kill, alongside macabre picture galleries of their grinning clients posing next to bloodied animal corpses.

British hunting enthusiast Adrian Sailor advertises trips to South Africa and Namibia offering hunting enthusiasts the chance to kill big game. And a £29,000 expedition offered by British firm Shavesgreen Safaris, run by hunting enthusiast Charly Green, is described as ‘the ultimate dangerous game safari’.

The company’s website says: ‘Lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, hippo and crocodile are all on the priority list.’ The firm, based in Lyndhurst in Hampshire, also offers a 16-day lion hunt in Tanzania with the boast: ‘There’s only one priority – a grand, old, maned lion.’

 

Two men shake hands over the body of a lion. So-called trophy hunters travel the world on shooting safaris, which can cost £30,000 per person, to hunt species including lions, leopards and cheetahs