Plans for a trophy hunting import ban have been strengthened to protect nearly 7,000 species, including animals that are not endangered such as African buffalo, zebras and reindeer.
Ministers have decided to go further than the Conservative manifesto commitment, which promised a ban on imports of trophies of endangered animals.
Imports will be banned of species such as Cape buffalo, which is deemed “near threatened” but is targeted by British trophy hunters as one of the so-called big five African species. There are fewer Cape buffalo than African elephants.
The ban will cover almost 6,000 species listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), including African lions, giraffes, African elephants and white and black rhinos.
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