Dallas Safari Club Calls for Lifting Unnecessary Air Freight Bans on Hunted Trophies

By Ammoland

DALLAS – -(Ammoland.com)- In the increasingly lucrative illicit global market for poached animal products, it is understandable that an airline/freight carrier does not want to be caught transporting illegal goods.

However, this week, Delta, American and United airlines all declared an immediate and unconditional ban on transporting any trophy parts from five African species – lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo (also known as the African Big Five).

This includes legitimate hunting trophies from legal, regulated hunts.

Dallas Safari Club is urging the airlines to reconsider. These bans are arbitrary and ill informed. There is a clear distinction between legitimately hunted trophies and poached game products, and there are already rules, laws and international treaties in place to ensure legal transport of hunted trophies. Import/export of trophies is administered by various government and non-government agencies – CITES and IUCN at the top of that list.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is …read more

Source:: AmmoLand