By Jonah Fisher.
Science correspondent.
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Each year, animal trophies are brought into the UK.
The government is being urged to move faster with plans to ban the import of animal hunting trophies.
The government published its response to the public consultation and promised a ban.
Legislation would be introduced, but it was not named a date.
The trophies from elephants and lions are brought to the UK.
The more animals are shot and brought back to Britain as trophies, the more likely they are to be banned, according to the founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
It's encouraging that the government is setting out its plans, but it's frustrating that we don't have a timetable.
Every year, hunters from the UK travel to southern Africa and pay thousands of pounds to legally shoot animals such as lions and elephants.
They can bring stuffed heads or horns back to the UK with the right paperwork.
George Eustace said the legislation would go further than was originally promised.
The import ban would include more than 1,000 species, including zebra and reindeer.
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Elephants are hunted for trophy to be displayed in the UK.
Mr Eustace said that this would be one of the toughest bans in the world.
We will be helping to strengthen and support long-term conservativism.
The data shows that in 2020 elephant tusks, Hippo skulls, lion, baboon and giraffe were brought back to the UK from southern Africa despite restrictions on travel.
There were 335 documented imports of trophy from animals covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora between 2015 and 2019.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned the ban on the import of hunting trophies in the Queen's Speech and the Conservative Party's election manifesto.
When asked when the legislation would be brought to Parliament, the Leader of the House of Commons replied: "In the fullness of time."
The private member's bill that would ban the import of trophies has little chance of success without government support.
The public will be angry by dither and delay.
It's time to put an end to this vile trade.
My private member's bill should either progress or be introduced by the government.
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On the frontline with the anti-poaching force.
The public consultation called for tighter restrictions on the import of hunting trophies and a ban on hunting in the UK, but it did not get the cross-party support it deserved.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation said the decision was a triumph of propaganda over science.
What aid will be given by the government to replace income from hunting?
The ban will be bad for animals, people and the land they live on.
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The species is considered to be extinct.
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Wildlife.
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