African officials slam UK trophy imports ban plan
African government officials are lining up to criticise the UK government for its plan to ban trophy imports. They say that the move is colonial,
African government officials are lining up to criticise the UK government for its plan to ban trophy imports. They say that the move is colonial,
The culmination of the week-long Cape buffalo course at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School is a hunt. The students take turns to be professional
The Westminster government wants to ban hunting trophy imports – but technology has overtaken MPs. Charlie visits Splitting Image Taxidermy in South Africa to look
To shoot a charging buffalo needs blood of ice – and enormous amounts of self discipline. That’s what the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School teaches
There have been several failed attempts to push through a trophy import ban – and now, as we approach the 2024 election, both Conservatives and
Canada and Belgium have brought in partial bans on trophy imports, and the UK and France are talking about it. Despite the damage they are
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezNafXAMGw Improve your driven big game shooting the Aimpoint Academy way. David films Aimpoint Academy winner Johannes Kesselstatt from Germany on a driven deer hunt
youtu.be/mmEs8VDu_O4 Charlie is on a plainsgame hunt in South Africa with the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, where he has trouble with hartebeest and learns
Swedish Lapland still has wild places, and that’s where Paul Childerley is headed with his guide Robert Magnstrom. We first met Robert when he took
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZz1QdPKvCQ US wildlife organisation African Parks (president: Prince Harry) plans to release 2,000 southern white rhino into wildlife parks across Africa. Stephen Palos from SUCO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrPIzmYVqb8 The answer is to pretend you’re super-rich (better still: be super rich) and ask for a try-before-you-buy day at the Holland & Holland Shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WVe0d3yb6s Just as the ibex season is about to close, Paul Childerley heads to southern Spain to hunt the smallest of the Spanish ibex subspecies,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmT9zleGbUY Paul Childerley thinks he has been invited across to Sako’s HQ in Finland to hunt moose and whitetail, but there’s a surprise in store.
youtu.be/Wg_zdppx9eg by Deborah Hadfield Would you like a lion in your living room? You won’t be breaking any laws if you do – not even
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-qEJeIeRwQ Roy Lupton is one of the best shots with a rifle on driven big game that red dot sight manufacturer Aimpoint has come across.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxx_1iPK940 HIKMicro donates one of its thermal units to an anti-poaching patrol in Mozambique. Paul Chdilerley is there to make the handover, plus he learns
Explosive action as British big game hunter Paul Childerley hunts buffalo in the Mozambique bush. He finds out about poaching, poisoning and just how dangerous
youtu.be/AbKZu8PCNOM It’s the Sako 100’s first outing in Africa. Paul Childerley takes the new rifle in .375H&H calibre to Mozambique. In this first film, he
by Deborah Hadfield Emma Stander believes that big game hunting needs an influx of women. She says it would boost the hunting business – and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxms_rO9NA Take a Scottish wildlife expert to Scandinavia and his imagination runs away with him. Niall Rowantree is elk hunting in Swedish Lapland. While there,
youtu.be/KU-11RVVDwQ by Deborah Hadfield The role of trophy hunting in conservation and the economic survival of communities in Africa is in the spotlight. A new
If it’s good enough for Nelson Mandela, it’s good enough for Ollie Williams. He is stalking blesbok in Africa with the trainee professional hunters from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ukUeLDjG4 It’s one of the best ways to spend a year after you leave school. The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School learn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9kirnvQhQ Malik Ezzi wants to be a professional hunter. His first problem is that he only has 40% daytime vision and no vision at all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4vpDvCmpI The trainee PHs have a new challenge today: they have to find Ollie Williams a bull blue wildebeest and put him in a position
by Charlie Jacoby It’s dark. The baby rhino is in the South African savannah with her mother. Dawn is coming. She has survived the night
The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School are hosting Ollie Williams. Three of them – SP, Jared and Reese – are guiding Ollie
youtu.be/IdSBQzMpaWE As Lord Zac Goldsmith tries to push through a ban on trophy imports to the UK, which would effectively be a ban on hunting
Lord Zac Goldsmith wants to ban trophy imports to the UK because he thinks it will help wildlife. He could not be more wrong, as
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HVyOLFgIE Tim Pilbeam gets to go on one of the great driven hunts of his life. It’s like Disney has opened the door to the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhdqtftYoI UK deer manager Paul Childerley is hunting moose in Swedish Lapland. He came close to seeing one in Finland a few years ago. This
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PVdscZq_w Watatunga is the new home of sensible exotic wildlife management in the UK. You can’t see lions and tigers – but you can see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCju1VxT5I TV presenter Piers Morgan ‘buggered up’ a chance to explain elephant management. While at the Good Morning Britain programme, he interviewed South African elephant
Africa is no stranger to Western bullying, with green policies that deny development or pressure from animal rights groups to stop big game hunting. Namibia
South Africa’s wildlife management associations have joined forces so they have the clout to fight threats to their conservation work from foreign governments. They’re calling
The British Army tried fake fur, but it was useless. Wellington Barracks-based military tailor Jonathan Macintyre explains where the bearskin caps work by guardsmen come
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W4w0XYKCE Eduardo Gonçalves brought out three books in 2020 supporting his own Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and we have found someone who has read
youtu.be/9hUHxq6ZqA0 Charlie Jacoby talks to James Field, who wrote the book, Of Hunters and Men: Some notes about hunting, Africa, and the future. Buy it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQG9CK_W98 Tatiana Orosová (pictured below) is a hunter and conservationist. She is a former contestant on Extreme Huntress, the TV competition in the USA. She
youtu.be/mz6zv7YTsFY If you want to see the difference between hunting areas and non-hunting areas in Tanzania, biologist Karen Seginak took these photos from her aeroplane
youtu.be/uVWSK0nTp7I Ben O’Rourke There’s a media storm brewing in the UK, as anti-hunting campaigners such as George Monbiot and The Guardian newspaper turn on other
Veteran BBC nature programme host Sir David Attenborough appears to have lashed out at hunting tourists, calling them ‘psychopaths’ who want to show-off how much
Trophy hunting has saved the urial wild sheep. That’s the conclusion of environmentalist Billy Offland, who visited a game reserve in Pakistan to see
It is part two of Paul’s Portuguese driven hunt. He is on farmland in the heart of the country where he is protecting farms from
Gary Rawlings takes his sport to South Africa. He is a British bowhunter – which is a banned sport in the UK, so he goes
How good is the Aimpoint Micro H-2? Let’s find out on a driven hunt, using shotguns on close-range deer and rifles on boar. Aimpoint takes
UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans hunting bans that threaten all shooting sports. His first move, with DEFRA minister, animal rights activist and fellow old
Tim Pilbeam is on the hunt of a lifetime. He is after Swedish elk, doing it with some of Sweden’s leading elk experts, a helicopter,
New Zealand has a pest problem. Happily, they are both a sporting shot and delicious. Niall Rowantree goes to a farm to help deal with
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