To import a black rhino trophy, permits under both the Act and the CITES treaty are required. To issue the permits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has to not only find that trophy hunting is not ...

The CEO of charity Save the Rhino, Cathy Dean, says that "well-regulated trophy hunting has a role in overall rhino conservation strategies". There were between 50 and 100 Southern white rhinos at ...

But trophy hunting today, especially of the so-called big five in Africa (elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, and Cape buffalo), brings with it a larger set of moral and financial questions.

Lemtongthai played a principal role in a syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts in South Africa to obtain horns to trade in the Asian black markets, a practice known as “pseudo-hunting”. During ...

But that’s not the main reason rhino populations are so endangered. The majority of rhinos are killed through illegal poaching. Trophy hunting is effectively the legal shooting of carefully ...

Photo: Storyville - Trophy: The Big Game Hunting Controversy The international trade in rhino horn has been banned since 1977. We need to legalise the trade in rhino horn worldwide. We need to ...