Airlines ban transport of hunting trophies
Morbid hobby 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 hobby 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 hobby hunter myth and a sad aberration.
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