We marched in solidarity with over 60 other events taking place around the world in the fifth Global March for Elephants and Rhinos.
Trophy hunting is putting dangerous pressure on key species already decimated by poaching, habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict. Over the past decade, trophy hunters have taken as many as 1.7 million body parts, including over 200,000 from endangered animals – a staggering scale of killing that could push many threatened species to the brink of extinction in the wild.
In the UK, permissive laws on trophy hunting have allowed 2,500 animal trophies to be brought into the country by British hunters over the past decade, including body parts of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hippos, bears and zebras. Around 2 tons of elephant ivory have also been brought home by British hunters, as well as ears, trunks, feet, tails and skins of elephants.
THIS MUST END NOW!
It’s time for the UK to close its doors to this gruesome and despicable trade once and for all and support efforts to ban trophy imports internationally.
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Theresa May, are you listening?
Protests against trophy hunting and imports of lion, giraffe and elephant parts to take place in 70 cities worldwide (The Independent)
Ban the import of hunting trophies (The Guardian)
GMFER London March Against Extinction & Trophy Hunting (Claws Out)