Airlines ban transport of hunting trophies
Morbid recreational hunters are no longer allowed to bring their trophies home by plane.
Delta Airlines announced on 4 August 2015 that it would no longer transport trophies from lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses, or buffalo.
The company stated: «Delta Airlines will also investigate whether additional hunting trophies will be subject to the ban.» Delta is responding to the scandal surrounding Cecil the lion, who was killed in early July by a US tourist on a big game hunt in Zimbabwe. American, United Airlines, and Air Canada also have no time for trophy hunting and are joining Delta Airlines with immediate effect.
These airlines are joining a group of carriers that have already been enforcing such bans for some time, including Virgin Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Qatar, Etihad,Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Qantas, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Air France, and others.
South African Airways and Emirates were the first airlines to impose such a ban in spring 2015.South African Airways is not, however, consistent in its approach.
Emirates Airlines explained its decision in a statement: «We want to contribute to eliminating the trade and transport of hunting trophies.»
South African Airways ran into trouble after hunting trophies were discovered in a crate that had been falsely declared as tools.
Budget airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair do not carry cargo.
The worldwide outrage over the militant recreational hunter mafia and their cult-like trophy hunting is having an effect.
Trophy hunting as a means of species conservation and development aid is, like so much else, a great recreational hunter myth and a sad aberration.
Related dossiers and articles:
- Dossier: Trophy Hunting
- Dossier: Hunting Myths
- Template text: Cantonal commitment to a national import ban on hunting trophies
- Template text: Curbing recreational hunting tourism
More on the subject of recreational hunting: The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
