For our sixth podcast, Charlie talked with Eduardo Goncalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
Charlie describes Eduardo as one of the “most committed and eloquent campaigners” he has ever met, and in a fact-filled forty minutes Eduardo urges the government (a decade after promises were first made) to pass legislation banning the import of ‘trophies’ to the UK, the lobbying efforts of Safari Club International, the egos and fantasy worlds of ‘hunters’ who opened their homes to undercover investigators, and the scale of the British trophy hunting business unveiled in Eduardo’s book ‘Mainlining on Heroin’ (a phrase used by a trophy hunter to describe the thrill he got from killing animals).
They end with the good news that trophy hunting is becoming increasingly socially unacceptable - and a shared admiration of Staffordshire Terriers…
You can tune in now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or just hit the play button above to listen here.
For more information on the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, please visit bantrophyhunting.org/
To urge the government to #GetTheBanDone - “Just do it, pass the damn law Steve, get it done Keir” - please sign the petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/uk-gov-ban-sick-animal-trophies/
