A new book, written by Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting founder and former World Wildlife Foundation consultant Eduardo Goncalves, exposes the hidden truth behind trophy hunting.
Trophy Hunters Exposed – Inside the Big Game Industry reveals how the cruel “sport” is being funded by controversial sources and facilitated by organizations claiming to protect animals.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), originally set up to preserve wildlife, is letting trophy hunters shoot thousands of at-risk animals each year — and powerful trophy hunting organizations are posing as conservation organizations in order to undermine wildlife protection laws, the book argues.
In another shocking revelation, the Boy Scouts Association and U.S. Salvation Army are said to be working with the big game industry to enlist children as hunters, which psychologists and criminologists believe may generate a surge in violent crime.
All of this is dangerous to human health as well. The link between wild animals and human disease is at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic, and the big game industry creates hazardous markets for the sale of wildlife parts. For example, scientists fear that the trade of lion bones for traditional Chinese medicine could spark a disastrous new pandemic.
“Trophy hunting is often seen as an aberration by a handful of individuals,” Goncalves explained. “This investigation shows it is a large, powerful industry with a well-oiled and generously-funded lobbying machine.”
“In echoes of 1984, the hunting industry claims killing animals for selfies and souvenirs has ‘conservation’ value,” he added. “Some of these ‘conservationists’ have secured influential positions within wildlife decision-making bodies. They are today revealed to be among the world’s leading trophy hunters. Their organizations are industry fronts more interested in protecting ‘hunters’ rights’ than endangered animals. They have literally put the ‘con’ into ‘conservation.’”
Proceeds from this book will be donated to the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
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Disturbing. This needs to get out there in the public more. PLEASE.
INCLUDING TRUMP JUNIOR ALL SHOULD FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES
Why? No laws have been broken. Between six and twenty million wild animals (depending on which ones you count) are raised on South African farms for hunting and meat. If the farmers can sell the hunt rather than pay a contractor to turn these animals into venison, it improves farm income. They are not “wild” animals – they belong to the farmers.
Wild lions are shot if they wander off the reserves, before they can get into farmland and kill cattle and people.
10,000 additional lions are raised for hunting and the bone trade. They don’t affect wild lion numbers.
What a creepy creature you are. Why don’t you tell us how many animals you cowardly butchered for fun instead of rewarding the slime of the earth. The worst part of it is that you actually believe your insane reasons. Poor little, little man.
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What is creepy about producing 100,000 tons of venison, Helena? These farms provide a fifth of South Africa’s red meat. It is a dry country and getting drier. Indigenous animals do better than conventional farm animals and by raising wild animals, the land isn’t ploughed up for crops. Its called conservation farming. It is a huge wildlife success, funded by hunting and meat, conserving a huge area without a penny in aid or donations.
Places like Kenya banned hunting years ago and have lost 80% of their wildlife because it has no value so nobody cares. It all gets poached or poisoned for competing with pastoralists or crop farmers.
Lots of the large animals on the farms will be eventually shot and eaten or turned into by-products anyway. Africans have always eaten their wildlife. If farmers can sell the shot and skin to a trophy hunter, it makes more money to invest in more wildlife. The meat will still be eaten and there are 300,000 local hunters anyway.
These are not the animals in the reserves and parks you see on TV – those are separate animals.
This “book” is a wind-up.
Its not a book. Its a fundraiser.
None of the animals featured here are endangered because they are raised on the forty million acres go game farms in South Africa that produce 100,000 tons of venison per year, whether a trophy is taken or not.
All of these animals are legally hunted (otherwise there wouldn’t be photos)
None of these animals are on the endangered list because they are privately farmed.
You are entitled to love animals, but not to kill the truth.
Really you want to give a children’s guns the person dumbass he is looks look around what’s going on around d the world and gun violence you should teach your child love animals a d learn to opprisiate them .And there you are instead you want to teach a child kll the harmless gorgeous endangered animal you should be I rotten in jail for killing animals plus kind a way kids to and you should never walk free
ONLY BAD HEART CAN DO SUCH BARBARIC THING!!!!
WHY DO THEY NEED TROPHY FROM DEFENSELESS ANIMALS?
so sad!
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Trophy hunters are mentally disturbed, the weak minded specie of empty heart villains. They are nothing without their big guns.
Many of the best-respected behavioral scientists of our times, including Sigmund Freud, William James, Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Marie-Louise von Franz and Karl Menninger, have written that hunting is a natural, healthy part of human nature.
Where the highest number of hunting permits are issued in the USA, the volume of violent crime diminishes.
Howard, remember, this is 2020 not the 1800’s
Then why do you act as though you live years ago? This is modern conservation wildlife farming. The animals are raised in their natural habitat on huge ranches, supported by hunting. The forty million acres in South Africa alone (where the photos are taken) also support trillions of other indigenous plants and animals, unlike the Amazon (soya, beef) or Indonesia (palm oil). It is a wonderful conservation success.
If the farmers didn’t sell the animal for hunting and meat, they would turn to beef or crops, and then all the wildlife would be removed.
These are not animals roaming the bush. They are privately owned. They are not included in any endangered list because they are farmed. They are separate to the animals on the reserves, She.
We already knew trophy Hunting is a nasty businesss. It ought to be stopped. NOW.
TROPHY HUNTING MUST END WORLD WIDE! NOW! FOREVER…NO MORE TROPHY HUNTING FOR RICH JERKS WHO LOVE TO KILL FOR THE THRILL OF IT! LAWS MUST BE MADE TO STOP TROPHY HUNTS!!!!
Trophy deserved to be hunted themselves.
These sick Animal Abusing Animal killing Dirtbag, Despicable Scum Bastards must be hung from the tallest trees – and while they are hanging with broken necks – they then must doused with high octane Gasoline AND SET ON FIRE SO NOBODY CAN EVER RECOGNIZE THESE HUMAN VERMIN EVER AGAIN.
Keep our animals safe and DESPICABLE TROPHY HUNTING MUST BE ERADICATED ALL OVER THE PLANET EARTH. GOD HELP THESE PRECIOUS ANIMALS. Pray for them.
These sick Animal Abusing Animal killing Dirtbag, Despicable Scum Bastards must be hung from the tallest trees – and while they are hanging with broken necks – they then must doused with high octane Gasoline AND SET ON FIRE SO NOBODY CAN EVER RECOGNIZE THESE HUMAN VERMIN EVER AGAIN.
Keep our animals safe and DESPICABLE TROPHY HUNTING MUST BE ERADICATED ALL OVER THE PLANET EARTH. GOD HELP THESE PRECIOUS ANIMALS. Pray for them.
None of these animals are endangered. They are farmed in South Africa for hunting and meat, and the numbers of all of them are rising, not falling. The hunting fees and meat sales support forty million acres of game farms. The game farms farm wild animals in their natural habitat, so the forty million acres are conserved.
As for your comments, you need help.
You’re telling Jerry he needs help? In case you don’t know, nobody wants idiotic sickos like you on this site. You don’t need help…the devil has already done that. How many little animals did you tortured when you were a child?
Maria L. Thank you for your kind welcome. All of the research points to the fact that hunting is a perfectly normal, healthy human occupation and hunters try to kill as quickly and cleanly as possible – the very opposite to sadists who prolong their act to get something out of it. The only sicko around here is Jerry Coco – read his comment.
I spent half my working life in Africa, trading, prospecting and hunting for the pot. These animals have a better life and death than any of your beef, chickens and pigs. The meat is organic, free-range and delicious. If a few people want to keep a skin or trophy, what’s the problem? It doesn’t make any difference whether you wear bits of animal on your feet or hands, make a handbag out of it, cover your car seats with it or hang a part of it on your wall.
As for torturing animals, I have raised hundreds of animals in my life and have worked in a few parks conserving them.
What happened to the animals where your house and roads now stand? What happened to the animals where your food is grown? Everything you own and consume costs animals their lives, so don’t point fingers – remember, when you point a finger, three point back at you.