Those of us who associate the trophy hunting of big game with men in white hats and big rifles traipsing through private reserves (or public ones initially created to protect animals from being trophy-hunted to extinction) are actually the neocolonialists.
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The latest broadside is that anyone opposed to trophy hunting is not only “virtue-signaling” but an unwitting perpetrator of neocolonial attitudes toward African people, telling Africans how to run their countries. In another example of this narrative, Professor Amy Dickman - in a letter to the Financial Times - opines that trophy hunting ultimately saves more animals than it kills and dismisses any criticism as merely “virtue-signaling.” With wildlife trade researcher Dilys Roe, she aired a video lecture that explains why all of us should be a bit slower to condemn trophy hunting. In the UK media, even the likes of George Monbiot have nailed their pro-hunting colors to the mast, if reluctantly.
But we must live with this necessary evil, because, counterintuitively, trophy hunting is killing to conserve. Its carefully scripted narrative goes something like this: We all hate the idea of African wildlife being killed, dismembered and reassembled into a trophy for someone’s wall as a reminder of some conquest that was cruel and hardly sport in any meaningful sense of that word. Meanwhile the global industry that feels threatened by the bill has pushed its propaganda machinery into overdrive. It will now go to the committee stage of the Upper House (Lords), which is expected to rule in favor of its passing, if perhaps in amended form. The bill passed its second reading on June 16, after having passed through the House of Commons. The United Kingdom’s House of Lords is considering a bill that proposes to ban trophy-hunting imports into the country.
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