The Mail can confirm that Hunters won’t be allowed to bring back sick trophies from their hunts, as The Mail reports.
Ministers will this week announce a total ban on the import of the trophies from endangered species to stop what Boris Johnson has described as a ‘vile trade’.
It is shocking to see how British trophy hunters pose with recent slaughtered elephants, lions, giraffes and zebras in sickening photographs.
More than 300 trophy of endangered animal killed on safari trophies have been exported to the UK since the Tories promised to ban imports by 2019.
Graeme and Greig Blendell are pictured together with a zebra. They are a father/son from Kinross in Scotland.
Critics have accused the Government of dragging its heels but a Whitehall source said last night: ‘This week, we will set out our next steps. They will be comprehensive, robust and effective and deliver the change promised to help protect thousands of species.’
Dame Judi Dench, a supporter of the Campaign To Ban Trophy Hunting, said: ‘Having built up expectations, the Government now need to see it through. It’s a policy that has tremendous support.’
In an effort to pressure MPs, the campaign will publish a book in which 75 British hunters are shamed, including some who have killed hundreds of animals.
Their names – along with an album of grisly photographs – were found on the website for Umlilo Safaris, a South African firm that offers more than 50 species for hunters to shoot.
Kenny Macleod, his sons Kenny Jr. and Greig are among them. They own a construction firm in Argyll.
Greig is seen with a dead buffalo zebra and his brother, father and sister are with impalas. No one responded to our request for comment.
Ministers will this week announce a total ban on the import of the trophies from endangered species to stop what Boris Johnson has described as a ‘vile trade’. Pictured: Charlie Reynolds standing with a giraffe
Graeme and Greig, a father/son from Kinross (Scotland), are pictured holding a zebra.
Graeme insisted hunting was about animal management, saying: ‘I went on a cull hunt in 2013. We were culling animals that had to be shot, the animals they wanted removed.’
David Tart from Dungeness (Kent) has shot 15 species with Umlilo including impalas and wildebeests.
Mr Tart said: ‘We had a good time. If MPs want to ban it, I suggest they speak to the people in Africa whose livelihood it is.’
More than 300 trophy of endangered animal killed on safaris that were pledged by the Tories to stop imports in 2019 have been sent to the UK since then. Pictured: An unnamed British hunter and an elephant
The website of Umlilo – which charges £9,175 for a ‘combo package’ to kill a lion and lioness and £18,750 for an elephant – also features pictures of Charlie Reynolds, 64, a transport consultant from Somerset, with a slain giraffe. His response to our request was not immediate.
Campaigner Eduardo Goncalves said: ‘Some of the most notorious trophy hunters are British and were last year happily shooting lions, elephants, giraffes, hippos, leopards, zebras and even baboons.
‘The Government continued to issue import permits so they could bring home their bodies, skins, skulls and tusks. This needs to be stopped. It’s an utter disgrace and shames Britain.’