LETTERS

TROPHY TRUTHS

First let me commend Matt Cross and Aidan Hartley for their articles on what a trophy hunting ban would not achieve (News and A sporting life in Africa, 29 December 2021).

I also recommend to your readers a video on YouTube — bit.ly/EconTrophy — made by the Economist, which is not normally assumed to be a right-wing pro-hunting publication. This video says it all and I have sent the link to it to my MP in North London. To her credit she replied promptly, had obviously watched the video and found it interesting, but believes that trophy imports and people going abroad to hunt trophies should be made illegal.

I did explain that CITES decides what is endangered and what is not, rather than