{"id":58258,"date":"2015-05-18T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=58258"},"modified":"2015-05-17T15:47:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T14:47:41","slug":"emirates-becomes-latest-airline-to-ban-transport-of-big-game-hunting-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/emirates-becomes-latest-airline-to-ban-transport-of-big-game-hunting-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Becomes Latest Airline to Ban Transport of Big Game Hunting Trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta Airlines, though, has rejected a citizens\u2019 campaign to get it to join the effort to discourage the hunting of African rhinos, lions, and elephants. <\/em><\/p>\n

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15 May 2015 – <\/em>Watch out, big game hunters: The options for bringing back animal trophies<\/a> from your African safaris are dwindling.<\/p>\n

Emirates SkyCargo, the world\u2019s third-largest cargo carrier behind FedEx and UPS, has announced it will stop carrying trophies of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers aboard its planes.<\/p>\n

The ban, which took effect on Friday, makes Emirates SkyCargo the second international carrier to take wildlife conservation measures into its own hands<\/a>, going above and beyond the rules set out by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species<\/a>. The treaty regulates the wildlife trade and allows for the sale of certain species.<\/p>\n

The news from Emirates came on Tuesday in an email reply to Sarah Dyer, a U.K. representative of the Campaign Against Canned Hunting, after the conservation group asked if the airline would consider banning trophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmirates SkyCargo has an existing embargo on the carriage of products and parts of endangered animals and plants listed under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), including hunting trophies,\u201d the company, which last year banned the transport of shark fins<\/a>, said in a statement. \u201cHowever, as part of our efforts to prevent the illegal trade of hunting trophies of elephant, rhinoceros, lion, and tiger, Emirates SkyCargo has decided that effective 15th May 2015, we will not accept any kind of hunting trophies of these animals for carriage on Emirates services irrespective of CITES appendix.\u201d<\/p>\n

South African Airways on April 25 became the first airline to ban the transport of hunting trophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSAA Cargo remains committed to playing a significant role in curbing the illegal transportation of all animal species while positively contributing to national and international conservation efforts,\u201d SAA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said in an email.<\/p>\n

That move prompted Chris Greene, chairman of the American Bar Association\u2019s Animal Law Committee, to start a petition to get Delta Airlines<\/a>\u2014the only U.S.-based carrier that offers direct flights to South Africa\u2014to join the ban.<\/p>\n

So far, Delta hasn\u2019t budged on the issue<\/a>. \u201cDelta accepts hunting trophies in accordance with all U.S. domestic and international regulations, which prohibits the possession of trophies or other items associated with protected species,\u201d company spokesperson Morgan Durrant said in an email. \u201cCustomers are required to produce detailed documentation of trophies to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials as their trophies undergo inspection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene believes his petition, which has so far attracted 110,000 signatures, could persuade Delta to implement a trophy prohibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelta is still dragging its feet, but they did agree a while back to stop transporting primates used in research, so we shall see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Related Stories on TakePart:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Op-Ed: We Have to Stop the \u2018Canned Hunting\u2019 of African Wildlife<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Airline Takes On Big Game Hunters to Protect Rhinos, Lions, and Elephants <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Surprising Fallout From Trophy Hunting for Wolves and Bears<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Taylor Hill is <\/em>TakePart‘s associate environment and wildlife editor. <\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 takepart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15 May 2015 – Watch out, big game hunters: The options for bringing back animal trophies from your African safaris are dwindling. Emirates SkyCargo, the world\u2019s third-largest cargo carrier behind FedEx and UPS, has announced it will stop carrying trophies of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers aboard its planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}