Holland Expands Ban on Import of Hunting Trophies
The Netherlands bans the import of hunting trophies for 200 wildlife species and calls for a Europe-wide ban.
The Dutch government is placing severe restrictions on trophy hunters and reducing the import of hunting trophies.
The list of banned trophies — including heads, hides, and tusks — has been expanded to include rhinoceroses, elephants, hippopotamuses, cheetahs, polar bears, and lions. This list now comprises 200 different wildlife species whose remains may no longer be imported into the Netherlands as hunting trophies.
State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Martijn van Dam, wants to bring about a Europe-wide import ban on trophies of these species.
He finds recreational hunting for animals to obtain trophies disgusting, he told a TV broadcaster.
Between 2012 and 2015, the Netherlands received 27 applications to bring trophies into the country. The ministry denied an import licence in 17 cases, including trophies from lions, bears, elephants, panthers, monkeys, wolves, deer and lynx.
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