2 Jul, 2016 @ 15:47
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Spain is second highest importer of lion hunting trophies, new report finds

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SPAIN is the second highest importer of lion hunting trophies.

A new report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare shows that between 2004 and 2013, 11,000 lion ‘trophies’ were traded globally.

The US imported 71% of the ‘mementos’ – which include the animal’s head or entire body – while Spain and Germany bought 5%.

Conservationists are calling for a blanket ban on all hunting trophies of threatened animals, including the African lion, whose numbers are now down to less than 20,000.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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