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 ...

Asking for a “second bite at the cherry,” attorneys retained by Perot and Kelly argued that their clients, who’d paid a vast sum for the hunt (the “single rhino trophy hunting package” can cost around ...

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 ...

In the proposal, South Africa whose black rhino population stands at 1893 individuals loses 45 rhinos annually to poaching with close to 4 rhinos often killed through trophy hunting.

Trophy hunting is therefore ... by stopping trophy imports of critically endangered species like the black rhino and lions For instance, Australia banned the import of trophy hunted lions ...