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Millions of animal 'trophies' exported across borders, figures show

2016-06-14 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Around 1.7m animal trophies have been exported across borders by hunters in the last decade, with at least 200,000 of them endangered species, according to a new report. US hunters are by far the largest killers of trophy animals, including half of all the 11,000 lions shot in the last decade, the report found. The issue came to global attention in July 2015, after a US dentist paid more than $50,000 to kill a lion called Cecil, who was being tracked by conservation scientists. The report...

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