>The US hunting lobby has spent £1m putting pressure on the government to delay the trophy import ban, a new report by MPs has found.
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>Boris Johnson promised to ban the imports of these trophies three years ago, but the legislation has still not gone through parliament. Because of the delay, the Conservative MP and animal welfare campaigner Henry Smith has put forward his own private member’s bill to ban imports of hunting trophies.
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Last time trophy hunting law was in the news over here:
>14 Mar 2022:
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>*The animals abroad bill contained measures including banning adverts for holidays that include elephant rides. It was to be a flagship bill signalling to the world that post-Brexit Britain was a world leader in animal rights, legislating against animal cruelty abroad. Most significantly, it included a commitment to ban the import of endangered animal parts.*
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>*But over the weekend it emerged that the bill was no longer likely to be implemented. Government sources said it had been scrapped, and that manifesto commitments including the trophy hunting import ban would no longer take place in this parliament. The government has officially blamed a lack of parliamentary time to implement the bill, elements of which were promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto.*
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>(*Guardian: [Tory row as law barring import of hunting trophies set to be axed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/proposed-law-banning-import-of-hunting-trophies-to-be-scrapped)*)
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Money is always the game. No money, no rights, opportunities, or ability to thumb one’s nose at decency.
Can America just fuck off trying to export their shit views
A fool and their money…
The trophy import ban itself is a terrible piece of legislation, based on an emotional narrative, will only serve to undermine the conservation benefits of sustainable hunting and has a rather distasteful colonial overtone to it.
Good for the SCI for putting their money where their mouth is and standing up against it.
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>The US hunting lobby has spent £1m putting pressure on the government to delay the trophy import ban, a new report by MPs has found.
>
>Boris Johnson promised to ban the imports of these trophies three years ago, but the legislation has still not gone through parliament. Because of the delay, the Conservative MP and animal welfare campaigner Henry Smith has put forward his own private member’s bill to ban imports of hunting trophies.
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Last time trophy hunting law was in the news over here:
>14 Mar 2022:
>
>*The animals abroad bill contained measures including banning adverts for holidays that include elephant rides. It was to be a flagship bill signalling to the world that post-Brexit Britain was a world leader in animal rights, legislating against animal cruelty abroad. Most significantly, it included a commitment to ban the import of endangered animal parts.*
>
>*But over the weekend it emerged that the bill was no longer likely to be implemented. Government sources said it had been scrapped, and that manifesto commitments including the trophy hunting import ban would no longer take place in this parliament. The government has officially blamed a lack of parliamentary time to implement the bill, elements of which were promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto.*
>
>(*Guardian: [Tory row as law barring import of hunting trophies set to be axed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/proposed-law-banning-import-of-hunting-trophies-to-be-scrapped)*)
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Money is always the game. No money, no rights, opportunities, or ability to thumb one’s nose at decency.
Can America just fuck off trying to export their shit views
A fool and their money…
The trophy import ban itself is a terrible piece of legislation, based on an emotional narrative, will only serve to undermine the conservation benefits of sustainable hunting and has a rather distasteful colonial overtone to it.
Good for the SCI for putting their money where their mouth is and standing up against it.