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Trophy hunting has become big business, and large sums are offered to African countries by wealthy Americans and Europeans to enable them to shoot endangered wildlife.

Letter: Time to end slaughter of rare wild animals

Some have argued that since most current and potential future tourists are attracted to the Arctic by "unspoiled" nature, the existence or promotion of trophy hunting might create a disincentive for non-consumptive users of wildlife to visit.

The nature and significance of polar bear conservation hunting in the Canadian Arctic

Sex ratio of leopards taken in trophy hunting: genetic data from Tanzania.

African lions and the trophy hunting dilemma

Spokesman Dr Pieter Kat said: "Their numbers are rapidly declining because of trophy hunting, loss of habitat and civil unrest.

Lion protest at St George's Hall

I feel compelled to write after reading the letter from the world s leading authority on the origin of trophy hunting" ("Hunting History," Advice & Dissent, January/February 2009).

About that trophy hunting ..

The Ministry of Environment this week announced this year's trophy hunting season which started on 1 May and will last until 31 August 2013.

Longer contracts proposed for communal trophy hunting

Many of our dwindling numbers of wild animals are endangered, and trophy hunting could make them extinct.

Stop trophy hunting!

With all the television shows broadcasting all the hype of trophy hunting, they sometimes forget that any animal is a trophy in the eyes of a child.

Mad props

However, Animal Rights Action Network founder John Carmody disagreed and said trophy hunting is carried out by cowards.

IRISH PAYING THOUSANDS TO DO HUNTS

The incident has sparked international outcry and has led to calls for greater scrutiny of legal trophy hunting, as well as calls to end the practice entirely.

Big brave man, huh? A lionheart you ain't; In the wake of the crossbow shooting of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, both sides of the argument are put in the debate: Is big-game hunting an outrage, and a disgusting act of cowardice for those with too much money, or an aid to natural selection and a force for ecological good? Rachel Misstear reports

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