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<p><strong> </strong></p><p>International trade in hunting trophies is controlled
under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which is
implemented in the UK through EU Wildlife Trade Regulations.</p><p> </p><p>With respect
to African lions, the Government commissioned a report on lion conservation from Professor
David MacDonald with particular respect to the issue of trophy hunting. This report
is available online at <a href="https://www.wildcru.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Report_on_lion_conservation.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.wildcru.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Report_on_lion_conservation.pdf</a>.
In addition, the JNCC participated in an EU mission to Tanzania in August 2016 to
examine the governance and management of trophy hunting of African lions and elephants
there. The report of the mission fed into considerations by the EU CITES Scientific
Review Group (SRG) of the import into the EU from Tanzania of African lion and elephant
trophy hunting imports. Imports of hunting trophies of African elephants from various
countries have been assessed regularly at meetings of the SRG, most recently at their
79th meeting in June.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has been party to assessments of hunting
trophy imports of white rhinoceros from South Africa at the SRG. The UK has not assessed
imports of hunting trophies of black rhinoceros; there have been no recent applications
for imports to the UK.</p>
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